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RE: Where has everyone gone??

I think most digitally-sourced music (including remastered pop/rock classics) is processed beyond repair. Dynamic compression, Auto-Tune, real-time lossless playback, etc. It just won't inspire people to reproduce it with higher fidelity. Even though most people aren't aware of the music's compromised state.

The mere concept of high-fidelity sound reproduction is becoming extinct amongst the younger population, simply because hardly anyone experiences it to any appreciable degree.

There is no mainstream music in recent time which was recorded at a level of (vinyl) Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, or even Fleetwood Mac..... There was a time where playing familiar hit tunes through a high-quality system for the first time was an epiphanic experience, which inspired us to acquire quality sound reproduction. But there has been no mainstream music in maybe the past 15 years that can truly evoke such experience for today's young consumers.

I believe this is why the interest in high-end audio has declined drastically in the past 15 years.

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