Consumers drive the marketplace - Don T

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Consumers drive the marketplace

Posted by Don T on April 23, 2007 at 13:58:46

In Reply to: Talk About Stating the Obvious..... posted by Todd Krieger on April 23, 2007 at 12:37:03:

I disagree. I believe todays high end offers lots more than the high end (jeez it barely existed) 40-50 years ago. If you consider a 70s Pioneer or Sansui reciever high end then I stand corrected and there's no point whatsoever in carrying on this conversations.

But I might agree the recording quality of shallow music isn't as good as it was 40-50 years ago but really why would someone care? I like to think I buy mostly good and worthwhile music and in general recording quality of the music I buy seems to be better today than it was for the music I was buying 20-30 years ago.

Unfortunately I disagee when with you when you claim that more music is shallow or that music is shallower these days than it was in the past. I've visited hundreds if not thousands of record shops, record conventions and record sales events over the years and there's no doubt that releases in the 50s/60s and 70s are far shallower (and not to mention outright embarrassments) than are the average releases of the 80s and beyond.

Ultimately though consumers are speaking. In general they demand portability and convenience as well as selection. Well like always they demand their shallow music that they'll forget about by the time they buy their next pair of jeans and the industry will supply them with a low quality recording for them to play on their low cost affordable player. Big deal - not sure this has much if any effect on me at all.

I find a much greater diversity of new music than ever before and I find the playback quality of this good music to be as good or better on average than ever before. I got nothing to bitch about.

Give me rhythm or give me death!

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Re: A familiar theme...the end to high-end... - mauimusicman 16:00:03 04/23/07 (0)

Highend is dead, long live the highend. - Jade East 15:52:09 04/23/07 (0)

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Consumers drive the marketplace - Don T 13:58:46 04/23/07 (0)

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