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In Reply to: RE: Can the industry return to the glory years? First off, posted by tinear on April 23, 2014 at 08:51:31
High End Audio has to make it with the kids or it will continue to shrink. It is shrinking because it is irrelevant- for the most part kids don't care.
What I find odd about this is that kids do seem to care if they get the right exposure. But apparently that exposure is rare and that is entirely the fault of high end's tendency to sequester itself; being unable to go out and get a date :)
We have been active in the local music scene for years and so have developed a reputation in town with kids in the music scene. I do find in interesting that here in town if you are in a band and are making a recording, LPs tend to be the preferred medium. Not CD, not mp3, but LP. But at every show I have been to where there was a band from out of town, the band has had vinyl with them for sale on the merch table. So its not just a local phenomena. There is something to that- a way for high end audio to be relevant again. Just say'n.
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tube stuff (like yours….). I hope so, but I don't think the vinyl resurgence among the young, now at least 15 years old, has shown that upscaling?
I know audible and visual realms are very different, but "2001: A Space Odyssey," never has been equalled for special effects. There is no digitalization. It is all, if you will, analogue.
Heck, watching "Vampyr" (the Dreyer silent classic) I was astonished at how much more "realistic" it was than today's lauded Fx vehicles. Maybe we need another 20 years of Moore's Law, but I'm beginning to wonder if digital ever can equal what was done by the best artists without it.
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Looking at ads/reviews in mags/e-zines displaying the amazing number of products available from all over the world sure doesn't give the impression that the hifi market is shrinking.
Seems to me what's happening is more companies, more products, more competition for sales. Not so sure the number of customers has shrunk, but the pie has to be split into more pieces.
It is true that there are a lot more and smaller companies now than there were in the old days.
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