What happened to all the highend stereo shops

60 year old audio/music lover here.

issue one is listening style.   Sitting down and listening to music was normal for our generation.  Black and white tv with 7 channels and horribly unreliable tubes, was the only competing media.  Phone calls actually cost money per use.  Our parents had time as there were no play dates, we walked or cycled to little league or music lessons.   My younger colleagues have no time to listen to music other than in the car

issue two. Cd audio introduced before the technology was ready.  Turntables competition from BIC, Dual, Garrard, Sansui, was increasing reliability and speed.  The early cd players all sounded the same, and were uninvolving, making a rack system from circuit city all you needed.

Cost. Very friendly dealer is 25 miles from me in a major market city. Most merchandise is priced to the Uber high end, with speaker cables and power cords priced higher than my speakers.  When I started practicing 30 years ago,  most of my colleagues had high end systems.  I know if only one now, and the dealer said his customers are ceos cto or cio types that listen to the products, put together a great system and pay with an Amex black card without regard to pricing 

Woke up this morning missing my days at The Speaker Shop in NE Ohio. Saturday morning, cup of Irish coffee in hand, listening to great music, setting up whatever combo I wanted, having great and sometimes heated debate with my boss and a couple of chill dudes we just to call Siskel and Egghead.. good times.

@cleeds Why you have taken my words out of context to attack my character, to attack Christianity is beyond me?

All I was stating is that people need to read the Bible of God. The Bible of the Israelites ! The Bible of Jacob, Isaac and Abraham and preferably the KJV, King James Version.

It's not my Bible. It is the Bible I choose to read and follow.

You can read anything or any Bible you want, I don't care. That's up to you.

 I was simply pointing out that our younger generation is predisposed to believe and follow doctrines that are immoral. 

 I don't hate people from the various alphabet cultures. My fight is not with them. My battle is with higher principalities in dark places.

 I am taking a stand for God. I am speaking the truth ! No one wants to hear the TRUTH. The TRUTH is ugly. The TRUTH is God's word. Boy I sure pulled the Bible haters out didn't I ?

If anyone here spoke against me for the speaking the TRUTH, then they are rebellious against God. They have proudly shown their stance on these positions.

 The Bible teaches me to not hate these people, but to love them. I don't hate them. I simply don't agree with what they are doing.

 What they are doing is immoral. It breaks down society. It destroys lives. It destroys marriages. It destroys families.

Sex and the occult have been linked closely together since the earliest of time. Baal, Ishtar and Molluck are still influencing and brainwashing our young.

 It's all about the children. 

I returned here today wearing the armor of God, and sharing the TRUTH.

 Jesus said. If they hate you, remember that they hated me first !

 Any particular reason why you decided to jump on the bandwagon to ridicule me ? 

crlambert

@cleeds Why you have taken my words out of context to attack my character, to attack Christianity

It looks like you have me confused with someone else, @crlambert. All I've done is ask a question.

I suggest you correctly identify the person you claim attacked you, and then alert the moderators. That's what they're for.

@crlambert

Your self-righteous diatribe assumes you are the only virtuous person on Audiogon. Many here are ladies and gentlemen from whom you could learn alot regarding audio, sprituality and life. Most rational members here leave their religious affiliations at the Audiogon door so as not to offend or push any stupid assumptions. We have a diverse membership of all religions and nationalities. It is equally offensive that you assume you are the only person who gets "it". You are not.

The "truth" is unfortunately, subjective when it comes to religion. The one with which you align seems to have a few inconsistencies (Lot and his daughters???? Its amazing that the male scribes got that one past the male editors of the day but hey....rationalizations know no bounds). The "book" to which you cling is actually a set of short stories compiled and voted upon at the council of Nicaea (4th century AD). And don’t get me started on the inconsitencies with the King James re-interpretation.

There is alot of good to garner from religious study, all religions...and there is alot where when overlaying simple, common logic (the story of Jonah??) things tend to fall apart. Its best to take it all in and throw out the parts where even the most objective might assume that human error litters the tundra of the texts.

The best practice on a hifi site might be to keep your religious beliefs and paranoia to yourself. The best practice on a religious belief and paranoia site might be to keep your hifi opinions to yourself. And before you pronounce from your self manufactured throne that you must be the modern day equivalent of Noah (which by the way was a nice tale but it didn't happen the way it was described), please recognize that many here have studied a great deal, have traveled extensively, they come from families with sometimes multiple clergy in their lineage (some even are clergy themselves).

Please keep the topic here on audio or please, respectfully, go pound sand.