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In Reply to: auditioning is irrelevant posted by bullethead on July 5, 2015 at 07:52:57:
...mostly because the goal posts keep changing for the industry.
Recession, depressions, devaluations, pressure to put out new products, competition (which on the whole, in my view, makes things worse rather than better...everybody says they're better when they're not, and prices increase for the stuff that really is better while most money goes into mediocre stuff) and the move to PC audio, ipod like equipment, and streaming technology, reduces the actual performance because the focus is less on good sound but on convenience, archiving, etc.
But this process started decades ago (with transistors, and CD, and think about how much money we, and the industry has spent trying to get those technologies to sound right).
The best system I ever had cost me around $12,000 in 1999 money, but it took a lot in terms of system matching, mods, etc., upgrades, buying and trying and selling, etc. before it reached that 'wow' factor. Unless you're really rich and have somebody do an install for you, the mods and the dedication to the hobby are the only way to get superior sound, whether now, 10 years ago, 30 years ago, etc.....
This is not a sustainable hobby, and it's not a sustainable industry. It's run by nuts for nuts.
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- absolutely true...performance to price ratio has suffered - Tom Schuman 03:53:14 07/08/15 (0)
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