macrojack
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| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? Home theater is why 2 channel was in decline. Audiophiles are like pipe smokers in that a few still exist and ever so infrequently someone young comes along and enlists himself. Both have to be realistically viewed as dying breeds however. | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? I think all this started with the popular acceptance of home theater. It was at that point that the emphasis shifted from music to sound effects. Little thumpy subs and cacaphonic mixes steered us away from real music. | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? Bill - When I was a kid there were exotic car dealers, Ferrari, etc., here and there in unlikely small towns. Eventually, as the economics changed and common folk became excluded from participation, such dealerships became limited to concentrated ... | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? Springnr has brought a question to my mind and perhaps each of us should ask himself the answer. When I respond to the question posed in the title of this thread, am I addressing the high end hobby at my house or the overall health of the high end... | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? We're a cult, guys. We hold to obsolete ways. We insist that others would follow us if only they would take the time to listen. If they choose to ignore us, we forgive their pitiful ignorance and redouble our efforts to show them the light. We see... | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? Marketing efforts are applied to enterprises that suggest a strong future with aggressive growth potential. No well-endowed corporation will view high end audio that way. As John our prophet said, "The dream is over". There is a chauvinism on disp... | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? Johnk - I see our market turning inward with an emphasis on recycled treasures as widow upon widow cycles big rigs back into circulation. The few of us who are still buying will mine that resource. Many will do nothing because they cannot reclaim ... | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? High end audio is hanging on by its fingernails. Momentum and the tenacity of old coots is all that keeps it going at all. Many of our manufacturers will be following Richard Brown, Terry Cain and Jim Theil within the next decade and our consumer ... | |
| The Hub: Just how bad is it in high end audio? The other shoe has already dropped. It will hit the floor soon. We are a small band of delusional eccentrics and our numbers have been declining for at least 15 years. At this point the industry survives by selling new models to the same audience ... | |
| The New Jeff Rowland amplifiers ROCK In looking over the Corus manual, I see no mention of a phono option. Does anyone know if Jeff will continue to offer phono boards for the Corus as he has for other recent preamps?On the one hand it looks like he is abandoning phono and on the oth... | |
| A major disconnect between the audiophile magazine In the case of preamps and integrated amplifiers, lack of a remote control will disqualify vintage units for many audiophiles. Computer based music banks add convenience and arguably better performance over CD systems. Vintage has no alternative t... | |
| Why not horns? Jeff1225- If you read back through this and other horn threads you will find my system described and justified for critics exhaustively. There are links to manufacturers demonstrating and explaining components such as horn, driver, crossover, woof... | |
| Why not horns? All quiet on the horn front. Apparently everyone is so content with their speakers that there is nothing else to say. | |
| Any vets among the Audiophiles here? The war spending is bankrupting our country and reducing the number of discretionary dollars that can go to audio purchases. Have you been effected yet? And the argument about helping the disadvantaged of the world would be more credible if we wer... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? In my experience, the majority of buyers in big box stores could be described as not particularly discriminating. They buy brand name or price, not performance. You guys have to get beyond your narrow-minded insistence that sound matters to anybod... |