What's going on with the audio market?

btw. I was talking about official factory upgrades, such as new drivers for the "same" speakers and vibration control feets. i agree a 100% that homegrown changes can destroy the sales-price.

The audiophile market is dead.

BTW, you can get great great great sound with ($500) av receiver and cheap ($100-200) speakers. The trick is use mogami speaker cable.

I had a $10k+ audiophile system. I sold it at quite a big loss. My current system cost less than $1000 and sounds way better (active monitors are amazing bang for the buck). Technologies have moved on.

I still got a pair of audiophile floorstander left, I might write it completely off soon.

Hey @coli 

I agree about the Mogami cables. LOL. They are a great value. Though in my case it helped to have some decent equipment to start with.  

Yup Obama is too blame for the bad audio market the last 8 years. It always comes back to Obama.  No Obama no audio problem.  Anyway. Make higher quality better priced gear and it could grow again.