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In Reply to: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! posted by Gag Halfrunt on March 28, 2012 at 04:43:59:
"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."People in the mainstream don't "despise" the concept of good audio. They've not been exposed to the type of music they'd appreciate to a greater degree if played back with higher fidelity........
Without the artistic nuances in music to provide the passion to reproduce it with higher fidelity, "pushing" the concept of good audio will be a futile exercise. But I don't know of one audiophile outside of AA who actually "pushes" the concept.
"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."
What does "Chinese" have to do with this?? Sounds like a divisive stereotype.
The generations who did buy audio and the only people still buying good audio equipment are doing so mainly to enjoy the music to a greater degree........ Some might spend more, but one need not spend a lot to attain better playback fidelity.
"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."
It will only die off if the appreciation of the artistic nuances in music dies off........ The music itself is the driving force.
"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've only demanded the superior sonic performance........ Some might prefer the inch-thick panels, but by-and-large, if the equipment doesn't perform, it does not matter how the equipment otherwise looks. Unless "wife acceptance" is an issue as well.
"We were subjectivists when it suited us, but now the subjective-led products are priced out of our orbit, we become indignant objectivists."
There were always products "priced out of orbit"....... Remember the Infinity IRS, Goldmund Reference Turntable, and Audio Note Ongaku?
As long as there is a market for ultra-expensive products, there will be ultra-expensive products........ It's no different from Ferraris in "Car and Driver" magazine.......
"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've wondered why our voices were not heard in decrying CD........
"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."
Do you think the hipsters buy LPs for their playback fidelity? After doing their "scratch" routines, the vinyl is likely tossed in the trash....... I don't think any of us "cheer" that.
"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."
The music we don't listen to........ It's because it's artistically barren and boring....... Only those who were conditioned to accept "loud" embrace it, because they haven't been fortunate to be exposed to alternative music. The culprit here is the mainstream media and particularly the network media.
"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."
That last sentence makes no sense.........
"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."
It will end only if we die off, and there is no one left to appreciate music at a higher artistic level....... But as long as people do appreciate good music, there will be a market to play it back with higher fidelity. Tiny it might otherwise be.
Edits: 03/28/12
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Follow Ups
- You're Attacking the Symptom, Not the Problem............. - Todd Krieger 17:43:14 03/28/12 (3)
- RE: You're Attacking the Symptom, Not the Problem............. - josh358 08:11:44 03/30/12 (2)
- RE: You're Attacking the Symptom, Not the Problem............. - Todd Krieger 15:12:19 03/30/12 (1)
- RE: You're Attacking the Symptom, Not the Problem............. - josh358 15:26:38 03/30/12 (0)
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