I haven't been very active in recent years, but when I emerged from under a rock to get my Bryston 6B SST repaired after 13 years in place I was happy to find them pretty much unchanged. I've followed photography much more closely than audio these past few years, and that is definitely an industry experiencing an epic collapse. One of my favourite commentators, Thom Hogan, often uses the collapse of high end audio as a warning. Yet it occurs to me that to my knowledge audio journalists have never really documented this alleged collapse or even approached a quantification and parsing of the market they are involved with. This is in very sharp contrast to photographic journalism which often sports graphs showing parsed (point and shoot, mirrorless, DSLR) shipments over the past several years by unit and by dollar.
Anyway, my agenda is not to beat up on audio journalism - I haven't been following closely enough for that - but to ask whether I'm missing some cogent analysis on this topic, or whether there are insurmountable difficulties I'm overlooking. My guiding assumption has been that high end audio - just like the DSLR - may die with the baby boomers. That it has no place in a world dominated by instant gratification, portability and social media. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
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Topic - Follow the money? - Jim Pearce 07:53:14 07/02/16 (34)
- You answered your own question . . . . - Billy Wonka 07:47:34 09/05/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - Todd Krieger 09:13:16 08/09/16 (0)
- The "High End" was always ignored by the mainstream! - RealStereo 12:59:02 08/08/16 (0)
- Surprisingly, for all the odd answers from Stereophile writers and fan boys, ... - bjh 13:31:25 07/09/16 (0)
- On the contrary - Dave_K 06:59:02 07/05/16 (0)
- How? - Ivan303 17:30:30 07/04/16 (3)
- RE: How? - Jim Pearce 19:15:19 07/04/16 (2)
- I wouldn't give 2 cents for it... - Ivan303 08:09:22 07/05/16 (1)
- RE: I wouldn't give 2 cents for it... - Jim Pearce 11:56:42 07/05/16 (0)
- Why? - Frihed89 13:45:59 07/04/16 (0)
- Follow the stats not your "assumptions" - Peter Breuninger 07:59:13 07/04/16 (1)
- RE: Follow the stats not your "assumptions" - A.Wayne 09:47:17 07/07/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - RGA 19:01:30 07/02/16 (2)
- RE: Follow the money? - Jim Pearce 12:56:26 07/03/16 (0)
- +1 - E-Stat 08:21:12 07/03/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - John N 14:06:26 07/02/16 (2)
- Oh wow. - Kal Rubinson 17:57:13 07/02/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - Jim Pearce 15:25:59 07/02/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - Inmate51 12:42:25 07/02/16 (1)
- enthusiastic hand-waving... - Jim Pearce 12:55:21 07/02/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - mkuller 10:43:06 07/02/16 (5)
- RE: Follow the money? - Larry I 04:48:16 07/05/16 (1)
- RE: Follow the money? - mkuller 12:47:52 07/05/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - Jim Pearce 12:02:33 07/02/16 (2)
- RE: Follow the money? - mkuller 13:12:06 07/02/16 (1)
- RE: Follow the money? - Jim Pearce 13:46:33 07/02/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - SpotcheckBilly12345 08:09:46 07/02/16 (7)
- RE: Follow the money? - Jeffrey Lee 17:58:07 08/08/16 (0)
- RE: Follow the money? - John Atkinson 13:24:47 07/02/16 (5)
- Why do you hate cleanliness? - Billy Wonka 15:02:08 07/07/16 (2)
- RE: Why do you hate cleanliness? - John Atkinson 15:11:05 07/08/16 (1)
- Thanks! - Charles Hansen 11:05:49 07/10/16 (0)
- Well done, Sir!!! - John Marks 13:40:32 07/02/16 (1)
- +1 (nt) - mkuller 17:21:15 07/02/16 (0)