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We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it!

Audio has reached its tipping point. The upcoming generations despise the concept of good audio, because they despise the audiophiles that push the concept of good audio. The generations who did buy audio have already bought audio and the only people still buying good audio equipment are largely our grotesquely wealthy Chinese owners, who pay vast sums of money to possess highly-polished trinkets they can pass off as status symbols.

High-end audio is decadent and morally bankrupt. It will inevitably die off in the coming years. And we made it that way, by fashioning it in our image.

We were the people who demanded exclusivity and inch-thick panels on our artisan-made stereo equipment, and now we moan because that exclusivity excludes us. We were subjectivists when it suited us, but now the subjective-led products are priced out of our orbit, we become indignant objectivists. We were the ones who rejected digital audio when the rest of the world embraced CD, then wonder why our thin little voice is not heard when decrying iTunes. We cheer the counter-culture hipsters who buy LPs, but woe betide anyone who dares to try to play that disc on our record players.

We bitch about products we don't buy, dealers we don't deal with, magazines we don't read and music we don't listen to. If they changed to bow to our every wish, we still wouldn't buy them, trade with them, read them or listen to them; we'd just be upset that we had nothing to be upset about.

So, this is how it's going to end. Not with a bang, or even a whimper, but a protracted whine from our man-caves. We built our Rome, and we are fiddling as it burns. Except this time, we are fiddling with our speaker spikes.



Edits: 03/28/12

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Topic - We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! - Gag Halfrunt 04:43:59 03/28/12 (77)

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