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No, most people just buy on the basis of price

So they just buy the cheapest crap they can find.

Remember when you couldn't buy a telephone because the phone company owned them and you just paid a rental fee per month? Those were damned near indestructible because the phone company knew that was the best way to save money in the long run.

Try and buy a decent phone today. They are all made in China. One drop and they either die or crack. Even without any abuse they will die after a short time anyway. If you ever opened one up you would laugh at the construction compared to the insides of the old Bell telephones.

Same with audio. Most people are happy with cheap crap. Crappy equipment, crappy downloads, doesn't matter as long as it's cheap.

The people who visit these forums are an aberration. There are 300 million people in this country, and about 300 thousand audiophiles. That means that only one person in a thousand will pay extra money to get better sound.

So it's a small market. It's enough to support small companies, but while a small company can build great audio equipment, a small company cannot market music on a national level. Only big companies can do that, and to be big they must sell to the general public. Who only cares about price and that's why we have to listen to cheap crap for our music sources.

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