RonM wrote: > I don't know, there still seem to be lots of people buying high-end > speakers out there. I suspect that the same demographic who bought > great speakers to play vinyl on in the 50s and 60s and who converted to > digital sources (CDs) in the 80s will be doing so going forward. There > has always been a large element of the music-listening public for whom > quality of reproduction was less important. That's the demographic that > bought all the small component kits and the boomboxes with tape players > (and later CD players) built in. Granted the ubiquity of cloud-based > music and the iTunes purchase world has changed things, but how much, > really? > > R.
I agree. It was a small percentage of the population back then and remains so. I didn't mean to imply that there would not continue to be folks interested in mid- and hi-fi solutions. I certainly think there will be. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
