Tristan Rees, 27, is normally an engineer for a Seattle app developer called Trover.

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The engineer who wrote the Stocks app had designed it originally to toggle between just the price and % change.

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Of course, good sound is subjective, so the app sets a concrete metric: It attempts to replicate exactly what an audio engineer hears inside a recording studio.

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