??? Are Manufacturers Killing Our Hobby ???
I had struck me recently that there is a GLUTTONY of equipment manufacturers these days & that,if not careful,the unchecked saturation of every corner of our hobby could bring about the demise of the entire industry..
There are only so many consumers of audio reproduction equipment to go around.The younger generations,as a whole,seem uninterested in the pursuit of music reproduction in the home..Live music events are less & less about the music & more & more about the "show"being put on..
Vendors at the last hi fi show I attended recently commented on how small the crowds were compared to previous years.
Too much of anything is never a good thing in the long run...Is it possible that the unbridled ability of manufacturers to saturate the market with too many choices could be a DEATH knell to our hobby in the not to distant future?
No manufacturers are not the ones killing the space. It is people who just engage in religious fervour of just buying things are what is killing this space. The manufacturers are just making stuff because people want those things more often than not even if they're useless, needless or downright have zero upside.
We shouldn't go blaming manufacturers. Portable audio space is thriving and that's because no one is approaching things there with mystique that is subscribed to by many in this space |
@deep_333 lol I know the speaker in the image and it sounded worse during the demo but the person running the demo was trying to convince me that unrefined presentation to treble with a low of graininess is fidelity. And I had to look it up and found the same frequency response and thought of this looks better that that sounded. I guess the untreated space for the demo even made it worse
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