...for your listening 'pleasure' and perhaps a form of education:
'Industrial Disease' by Dire Straits.
Still funny, and still wayyy too true.
IMHO, all of y'alls comments have elements of the Truth. Too expensive, too 'niche', too esoteric, too self-limiting in the modern marketplace. We're all discovering that the digital domain is dominating the discussion of the day. And I love alliteration, but that's just me....;)
The 'cultured ear' has become passe'...
I suspect that the majority of those of us who lurk these forums came of age and grew through the maturation of audio reproduction and the means and methods to produce and reproduce it. We witnessed the birth and growth of a market that has become so broad and varied as our tastes in the 'how' we prefer to experience it has mirrored this growth.
You can drink a 5$ bottle of wine or a 500$ version of the same vintage. In a blind test, would you be able to tell the difference if you hadn't sampled both in some fashion previously?
I sincerely doubt it.
We've 'created our own dilemma'.
To the 'newcomer' to 'audio', an all-encompassing system entails an HDTV w/7.1 surround linked to a digital device ('puter, I-whatever,'droid...) w/blueteeth sunk everywhere, controlled by a remote something that controls more than just that system....if they can afford that level of sophistication. And I'm not going to heft the 10' pole towards the economy, geopolitics, and whom y'all want to blame for all of That....
We are being phased out. Your monoblocks are going Class D, like it or not. I'm not going to say that vinyl is going to disappear tomorrow, or even a decade from today. But I have some transcription discs that unless I take an inordinate amount of time and treasure to resurrect them, they will still remain 'curiosities', remnants of an era passed.
'Twas always thus, and will always be such. Things change...and a lot faster than wallets, preferences, and opinions.
*Kicks soapbox into the corner, and stalks off....*
'Industrial Disease' by Dire Straits.
Still funny, and still wayyy too true.
IMHO, all of y'alls comments have elements of the Truth. Too expensive, too 'niche', too esoteric, too self-limiting in the modern marketplace. We're all discovering that the digital domain is dominating the discussion of the day. And I love alliteration, but that's just me....;)
The 'cultured ear' has become passe'...
I suspect that the majority of those of us who lurk these forums came of age and grew through the maturation of audio reproduction and the means and methods to produce and reproduce it. We witnessed the birth and growth of a market that has become so broad and varied as our tastes in the 'how' we prefer to experience it has mirrored this growth.
You can drink a 5$ bottle of wine or a 500$ version of the same vintage. In a blind test, would you be able to tell the difference if you hadn't sampled both in some fashion previously?
I sincerely doubt it.
We've 'created our own dilemma'.
To the 'newcomer' to 'audio', an all-encompassing system entails an HDTV w/7.1 surround linked to a digital device ('puter, I-whatever,'droid...) w/blueteeth sunk everywhere, controlled by a remote something that controls more than just that system....if they can afford that level of sophistication. And I'm not going to heft the 10' pole towards the economy, geopolitics, and whom y'all want to blame for all of That....
We are being phased out. Your monoblocks are going Class D, like it or not. I'm not going to say that vinyl is going to disappear tomorrow, or even a decade from today. But I have some transcription discs that unless I take an inordinate amount of time and treasure to resurrect them, they will still remain 'curiosities', remnants of an era passed.
'Twas always thus, and will always be such. Things change...and a lot faster than wallets, preferences, and opinions.
*Kicks soapbox into the corner, and stalks off....*