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In Reply to: RE: Been Away For A While. What Has Happened? posted by artemus on July 08, 2017 at 08:22:05
If anything, the email volume I get is 10-20% more, versus the audio heyday of the 00s. The big difference is, audiophiles have reached a plateau, and now turn their attention to music. There's an enormous demand for popular music (primarily because, within the audiophile world, it had been suppressed for so long). As far as genres go, the strongest demand is for thrash metal and EDM (electronic dance music). As far as time goes, I have two evenly-matched branches of audiophiles. One branch argues that 1987 was pop music's finest. The other branch counters that 1992 displayed the most variety.
Speaking of variety, of all AA's forums, Rocky Road arguably exhibits the greatest variety. We have enough Inmates, to cover a wide range of time periods and genres. Audiophiles beg me to make a selection, and write about it. Give some background information. When, where, and with whom did I first hear it? What was going on then? Do I have any photos? Did the song move us? Did we use it as an audio reference?
I just can't keep up with demand. So I'm going to disappoint the branches in favor of 1987, 1992, thrash, and EDM. During the Fall 1990 quarter, I went to my college radio station, UC Santa Cruz's KZSC (above), and bought Prefab Sprout's excellent Jordan: The Comeback, which included "Moon Dog." In the early-00s, an audition with that song inspired one of my audiophile friends to buy Moondog Audio's Yote monoblock amplifiers.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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jazz. I've tried. It just doesn't work for me. I don't criticize those who enjoy it though. For me, female vocals consist of Sass Jordon, Nancy Wilson of Heart and Dale Krantz (Rossington Collins). OH, Janis too. But the stuff they play to show off their systems at the audio shows is pretty much blah to me. Is it any wonder that audiophilia is almost dead?
Most people listen to pop music. Make it sound good via a good system and show it at the shows and maybe audiophilia may survive. but then the cost factor comes in. many are glad to listen to 256kbps music over crappy headsets. They don't know that much of the music is missing. They don't know they are even missing anything. And with so many toys to buy, the $$$ for a good system is scarce and even non existent.
OK. i'll put away the soapbox now.
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