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Something is very wrong in audioland: yesterday,

we attended a party of 20-25 folks collectively to watch the Derby. The host had a nice collection of Oasis posters on his garage walls and so I expected to see at least a decent audio system upstairs. No. He had one of those newish Bose supersystems that contain audio/dvd in one package.
I politely started several conversations about audio with pretty much all the guys there... blank stares. NO one cared.
In one generation, we've gone from pretty damned fine audio (what's now reverentially referred to as "vintage") to MP3 and vastly inferior home theater "surround" systems.
Audio and boxing: coming soon to a cemetery near you.
I don't know what could bring about a Renaissance. Perhaps product placement? It's amazing how little of it there is in Hollywood. Gazillion dollar homes and penthouses, Ferraris, flowing Bollinger... but never awesome audio on display.
Time for this ultra competitive industry to cooperate a bit to reverse this race to the bottom.

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Topic - Something is very wrong in audioland: yesterday, - tinear 06:17:40 05/06/07 (55)
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