Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system.

The breath-taking cost of quality gear is doing a fine job of keeping this hobby out of the hands of people who might otherwise enjoy it. 

there is also more quality low cost gear than ever before...

Lots of good gear at all price levels for anyone interested. More than ever. So someone is buying something just not as much super high end luxury products as in the past.   At least not in the USA.   Times change and younger folk could mostly care less because they just have no need and often no funds for it.  Most people are just struggling to get by.  Consider one self  very fortunate if that is not the case.  Medical costs alone are enough to sink many in this country.   But nobody is talking about that.  Rather we as immigrants or at minimum descendants of immigrants are programmed daily to mainly fear immigrants.  Very sad but we reap what we sow. 

I have had all kinds of Systems and at one time or another loved them....if you want home theater set up to play your music...I say go for it....blow your socks off....you only live Once.

Dude, we are the last generation, a dying breed. To paraphrase Clark Gable, no one gives a damn anymore. 

Well, a few of us do, enough well heeled ones that engineers feel it’s worth their while to design $600,000 speaker pairs. 

But I digress. What was I saying? Anything important? 

Follow the yellow brick road….