We may soon be in for the total reboot of the hobby we need . The traditional outlet for audiophilia has always been the local hifi shop , where you can do sighted listenings to expensive cables outrageously priced tube amps etc and bring the stuff home ?
They are currently mostly part of the problem . Wonder why they don't figure what thier dwindling sales comes from ... there are not many well sorted hifi stores left anymore where I live . Hopefully someone realises that the traditional hifi shop scare away most off the silent majority and open another kind of hifi shop without the voodoo just because it makes a better business :) Historically i think this hobby was in good shape a bit into the 70's with mostly normal audio engineering going on and the consumer could buy hifi handbooks , just like you can get books of this years car models . Heck they even tried to apply some standarda to the scene ( DiN something , it failed for other reasons ) I think that was the peak . It was a household luxury you could indulge yourself into without being regarded as a nutcase . It costed a bit more than a normal cr*p "stereo" but not totally silly money it was affordable for for middle class people and with the music scene exploding in those times probably a perfect compliment . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105200 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
