There was a time when you could drive to Seattle, park your car on Rooseveldt, and visit SpeakerLab, Hawthorne, Magnolia and Definitive all within about a one minute walk of each other. They covered the whole range from DIY to niche/boutique/budget (new and used) high end to mainstream audio/video to flashy statement high end. Now SpeakerLab is empty, Magnolia is CityMD, Hawthorne downgraded to more used/budget and Definitive is so whack I heard my first over a million system there- $1.3M I think it was- that sounded like crap. So in this area anyway the great middle is gone leaving us with budget buyers and Goolag and Microsoft millionaires throwing fiat at Definitive.
It all seems quite dismal until I walk into Easy Street Records and find it very busy with more than half the space devoted to records, new and used, young people listening with headphones on the turntables they have set up, boxes of entry level tables stacked by the cash register.
Therefore, logically, you get more audiophiles legalizing pot than daiquiris.
It all seems quite dismal until I walk into Easy Street Records and find it very busy with more than half the space devoted to records, new and used, young people listening with headphones on the turntables they have set up, boxes of entry level tables stacked by the cash register.
Therefore, logically, you get more audiophiles legalizing pot than daiquiris.