More potential bad news for some big names...

I dont think that Fosi will die for example ...

The definition of what is low-fi versus High-fi could had meaning when the public had not easy access to knowledge as nowadays...

Excellence of design at any price for any and each one needs is not compatible With expression borderline to marketing insults..

My system at 1000 bucks dont rival Jay high end product for sure but is more than very good and i dont need it at all any high end product , thanks to mechanical,electrical and acoustical basic controls and synergy and wise choice...

By the way my Sansui and My AKG K340 were top of the world product 35 years ago and it is enough for me especially because i was even able to improve them...

There is no low fi, mid-fi or high fi, for me only excellence at all price for all needs and acoustics knowledge and principle put at work or not ...

All these Lo-Fi brands will die with the Retailers that sell them.

I'm not sticking up for Andrew Robinson but he related a story about audio snobbery in the old days when you'd walk in to listen to something and how it compared to buying his first Ferrari as a youngster and being treated like a nobody because of his age and the way he dressed. 

If you're going to insult someone, know that someone.

All the best,
Nonoise

Younger less wealthy folks better get with the program and help boost the hi end stuff that increasingly  fewer neither want nor can afford.

@wswright20 wrote:

"It’s amazing that denial, ignorance, pettiness and even wishing for a human to die finds its way into a supposedly hi-end audio forum. How sad we have become. Thank God the people have spoken!"

Dear sir or madam, I’m completely baffled by your comments. Could you kindly elucidate? Thank you.

I dont think that Fosi will die for example ...

Fosi Audio is not low-fi. Some of their stuff is probably hifi-ish

And why would it die? They probably have hundreds of thousands of buyers worldwide because of the low price.

It’s the vulture priced crap that never sells... All kinds of covert marketing tricks  need to be deployed constantly on these type of forums to make a sale.

@curiousjim The militaries and autocrats are doing their best to make it so.

I seriously doubt the world will come to an end in 2025

@wswright20 Well, 49% of them. 

Thank God the people have spoken!

@mahgister Good for you. 

By the way my Sansui and My AKG K340 were top of the world product 35 years ago and it is enough for me especially because i was even able to improve them...

@wswright20 

"Thank God the people have spoken!"

Any reference to some "supreme being" in the context of this particular president-elect is ironic and absurd.  We are mere mortals and often,  all too often, as the Bard reflected, fools.  

I’m sorry the Cleveland area doesn’t have more hifi shops. It’s not necessarily due to a lack of demand but because of internet sellers like Crutchfield, Audio Advisor and others. And where I live, in SE Michigan there are 4 brick and mortar dealers plus 2 in Ann Arbor, one that has a national presence. A friend of mine who sadly passed earlier this year had a successful shop in Kalamazoo which still exists. 

@krelldog In Los Angeles and on-line, I've sold several higher end pieces to young men and couples in their late 20's and 30's.  I sold an EAR 890, EAR Acute, Synergistic Research Atmosphere XL, SR cables, Bryston BIT-20, etc. all to younger people.  It has been more difficult to sell currently available used high end gear even at 40% of list price.  So, there are buyers but at big discounts.