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Dre’s drum programming on this album set a new industry benchmark. The kick drums hit with a punchy, chest-thumping thud, while the basslines roll smoothly without ever distorting or sounding muddy. It was designed specifically to push car audio systems to their absolute limits. The Engineering Genius: Why Quality Matters Doing this to an album like 2001 is