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In Reply to: RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! posted by Gag Halfrunt on March 28, 2012 at 06:34:27:
> OK, Audio as we know it is dying.
No it is not. Audio is fine and high performance audio is cheaper than it has ever been. Consider that something like this:
http://www.neumann-kh-line.com/neumann-kh/home_en.nsf/root/prof-monitoring_studio-monitors_nearfield-monitors_KH120A#
can be purchased for about £500.
And I would argue that audiophile is diluting rather than dying in the sense that audiophile products (valve amplifiers, expensive cables, record players,...), are being mass produced cheaply for department stores in the way they were not 10 years ago. Whether you think they are silly or sophisticated they are available cheaply if that is what you want to buy.
There also seems to be growth in the ultra expensive end of audiophile equipment if the range of products available is anything to go by. But the same has happened with women's handbags. These are luxury goods which sell primarily on marketing rather than function.
> It's the sensible products that are struggling, ignored by the young
> (who just buy fashion statements) and the old (who if they buy
> anything, just buy grossly overpriced, garish and often downright silly
> products) alike.
When purchasing luxury goods fashion statements have a significant role. What is wrong with that?
If you want to buy audio equipment for technical performance rather than for other attributes like fashion statements there is plenty of opportunity to do so. I strongly suspect that more youngsters are buying equipment of this type than oldsters.
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Follow Ups
- RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! - hg 07:53:00 03/28/12 (3)
- ah, the resurface of the Andy19191 troll: back again? -t - Sordidman 10:41:26 03/28/12 (0)
- RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! - Gag Halfrunt 08:29:13 03/28/12 (1)
- RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! - hg 10:42:33 03/28/12 (0)
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