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RE: High-end audio: a lost cause?

High end audio is dying only because the music most people listen to in recent time doesn't make them want to reproduce it with improved fidelity..... It has nothing to do with gender, generation, or income class.

Part of the problem is the digitization of audio, and the audio industry's failure to provide higher-resolution playback methods (at least CD quality) that yield widespread enjoyment of the music. (There are some isolated cases of enjoyment of music via such playback, but nothing widespread.) Some might argue the trends in popular music were influenced by audio playback problems (where for example, only "loud" sounds impressive), and I won't discount that either.

From an audiophile perspective, I find the evolution of digital audio playback disappointing, where the quality of playback has been going sideways in most part, if not backwards. I still think the most enjoyable digital audio playback rests in 1990s-vintage CD playback, which I use exclusively in the non-computer environments.

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