My grandparents and parents were travelers of the Road Not Taken. I remember Packards, Hudsons, Studebakers...and some good ones. My Dad had the same model Hudson that won at Daytona and a Studebaker Hawk designed by Raymond Loewy. If you want a journey down consumer product "Memory Lane", look up the designs of Raymond Loewy. Most households in the U.S. at one time had a Raymond Loewy product.......including a famous Cola bottle shape. I lived my adult life in a related "design" field selling furniture from the Bauhaus, the modern American post war period (Eames/Nelson et. al) and Denmark.
As has been written, our population has freedom of choice and rarely use it. All of us "Audio piles" know that for every decent piece of audio gear made there are thousands of bad sounding mainstream consumer crap that makes sounds...not music, but sounds. A Mr. Pearson referred to live music as the "Absolute Sound" most of us realize that the majority of Americans have the car radio and the Jukebox at the bar as their sound standard.
C’est la vie.
As has been written, our population has freedom of choice and rarely use it. All of us "Audio piles" know that for every decent piece of audio gear made there are thousands of bad sounding mainstream consumer crap that makes sounds...not music, but sounds. A Mr. Pearson referred to live music as the "Absolute Sound" most of us realize that the majority of Americans have the car radio and the Jukebox at the bar as their sound standard.
C’est la vie.