Overall, I think the current trends of more revealing/fatiguing products selling at vastly inflated prices is killing the audio industry.
It's been many years since business school, but higher cost + lower long term satisfaction doesn't seem like the best response to down economic times (or any other actually).
The business model of sign a big advertising contract in exchange for glowing reviews has been suicide for the industry. How many former excellent high end audio stores are either gone or operating out of someone's basement?
10 years ago or so I fell in love with the Purist Audio Musaeus's that I used for all IC's and speaker cable. I loved the musical, non-fatiguing, deep, large and rich sound from these guys.
I lost a pair in a recent move and replaced them with the newest version. The new ones dropped the old sound to jump on the revealing/fatiguing bandwagon. Cable Company said they're pretty much all that way these days (except MIT and Cardas). Argh!!!
It's been many years since business school, but higher cost + lower long term satisfaction doesn't seem like the best response to down economic times (or any other actually).
The business model of sign a big advertising contract in exchange for glowing reviews has been suicide for the industry. How many former excellent high end audio stores are either gone or operating out of someone's basement?
10 years ago or so I fell in love with the Purist Audio Musaeus's that I used for all IC's and speaker cable. I loved the musical, non-fatiguing, deep, large and rich sound from these guys.
I lost a pair in a recent move and replaced them with the newest version. The new ones dropped the old sound to jump on the revealing/fatiguing bandwagon. Cable Company said they're pretty much all that way these days (except MIT and Cardas). Argh!!!