The triumph of mid-fi


Isn't it ironic that companies like Sony and their products were distained as "mid-fi" by audiophiles just a few years ago but today we seem to be falling all over ourselves to get their SACD players while the vast majority of so-called "high-end" manufacturers have yet to produce anything like this. Comments?
rmueller01

Showing 1 response by vikkysingh

The people at Sony, Phillips etc have the budgets to develop all kinds of new technologies, i.e cd's
I think the role of the high end isn't to develop new formats or technologies but really to improve upon them. Meridian I think is the obvious exception though, they have been heavily involved with the development of DVD-a.
-Vik