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In Reply to: RE: Follow the money? posted by mkuller on July 02, 2016 at 10:43:06
I dunno mkuller: maybe it's my manufacturing background that rebels against statements like this. Or maybe I was too committed 20 years ago to the vision of stereo/multichannel music crafted from source to reproduction in the home for maximum fidelity. Somehow the idea that there will always be a market of some finite size for some more expensive audio stuff strikes me as being trivial and empty. Sure there are qualitative trends we can talk about - especially the trend to more selfish enjoyment (headphones) - but I wasn't suggesting that the audio media were deficient in doing that.
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> ...the trend to more selfish enjoyment (headphones)...>Very few audiophiles listen to their main systems with others.
Headphones can be very considerate of others who don't want to be disturbed.
High end has been changing along with music media and will never be like it was in the 1980s.
How will you know?
Look at the proliferation of components costing over $20,000 ea - someone is buying them.
Edits: 07/02/16
Not so much: with $20,000 price points a small "manufacturer" might break even on a couple of dozen units.
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