I have my parents wood cabinet cathedral radio that sounds amazing for a radio.

First it was Japan cheap products then China and Mexico.

I bought a DAC in combination with a high def streaming service recently and that opened the audio quality back up for me after years of crappy sounding music. Have hope, the equipment is still out there, just in a different form.

CD "quality" sound was a lie, and always has been.

I enjoyed this, while not an attentive audiophile, it’s good to see what happened to all those quality products I remember.

Absolutely.