In Reply to: RE: "foolish audiophiles will pay a premium to the manufacturers".... posted by Ivan303 on May 27, 2016 at 19:06:39:
I disagree. :-)
It pretty much covers a majority of "high end audio" seen as a collection of products and vendors. I'm not sure when there was a disconnection between "high fidelity" and "high end", but the two salient technological events that precipitated this disconnect was the invention of Dolby compression (destroying any possibility of pure analog recording) and the 44/16 CD standard, slicing music up into bits that could never be pure, and thereby creating the opportunity for scam artists to sell products that would be ultimately mediocre as something "better". So, IMO, it was mostly over by the mid 1980's.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: "foolish audiophiles will pay a premium to the manufacturers".... - Tony Lauck 05/27/1620:02:53 05/27/16 (3)
- True audiophiles will consider - fmak 22:21:32 05/27/16 (2)
- Couldn't agree more. nt - Tony Lauck 09:33:58 05/28/16 (1)
- RE: Couldn't agree more. nt - Isaak J. Garvey 10:42:29 05/28/16 (0)