High end Audio seems to be like the Beer and Wine markets
recession resistant, but not recession proof.
By and large, my take on sales, postings and pricing especially, seems overvalued by those newer entrants to this website. Those with more time here and or exp. Are generally more sane with their asking prices.
Initially I wanted to go HT with all separates. Uh that didnt work for me. Too much $$$. IMO Most likely due to my devotion to 2 ch being my priority instead. Receivers with outboard amps is the ticket there for my uses of HT. I dont go off on higher priced cabling for it either. Its modest thru and thru yet remains involving and fun. Thats good enough for me. One more 3 ch or a very good 2 ch SS amp for it, and Im done there . Save for adding in a 1080 FPJ and trickling down my 720p to the BR rig. Maybe.
Simple.
I suspect with ongoing listings everything may get a bit of a squeeze for a while. Mainly while some decide or discern their own situations . Be it to continue onwards and upwards? Or downsize.
Seen the numbers of the unemployed lately?
Priorities are changing. Top to bottom. Many have been and are about to be affected.
A change in priorities in a recessionary era restricts spending again, top to bottom. Inventories are restricted and availability decreases accordingly. Production is scaled down too. It all makes good sense as well.
Doubtless few of our cottage industries at their finest will suffer some, but given many are but fueled by a minimum number of people, they will continue just at a lesser pace.
Prices should as well become more attractive as the motivation, eventually, increases by need. Some too may just be trying to move out non prioritized pieces superfluous items at a premium, as speculation and not by motivated needs.
Personally, I feel it more as a social mind set than anything else. An precautionary atmosphere perhaps. It is pervasive and affective to degrees which account to their own financial and security levels. Recessions are marketing and emotional depressants too. Recovery from them requires changes, both temporal and long lasting at times.
Another year, two or so, all will be less bumpy. Three tops.
It may be for the best in the end, if this period enables folks to become more attached to values in life rather than to mere indiscriminate costs and previous discretionary spending habits.
If nothing else, paitience will get experienced by many, like it or not.
By and large, my take on sales, postings and pricing especially, seems overvalued by those newer entrants to this website. Those with more time here and or exp. Are generally more sane with their asking prices.
Initially I wanted to go HT with all separates. Uh that didnt work for me. Too much $$$. IMO Most likely due to my devotion to 2 ch being my priority instead. Receivers with outboard amps is the ticket there for my uses of HT. I dont go off on higher priced cabling for it either. Its modest thru and thru yet remains involving and fun. Thats good enough for me. One more 3 ch or a very good 2 ch SS amp for it, and Im done there . Save for adding in a 1080 FPJ and trickling down my 720p to the BR rig. Maybe.
Simple.
I suspect with ongoing listings everything may get a bit of a squeeze for a while. Mainly while some decide or discern their own situations . Be it to continue onwards and upwards? Or downsize.
Seen the numbers of the unemployed lately?
Priorities are changing. Top to bottom. Many have been and are about to be affected.
A change in priorities in a recessionary era restricts spending again, top to bottom. Inventories are restricted and availability decreases accordingly. Production is scaled down too. It all makes good sense as well.
Doubtless few of our cottage industries at their finest will suffer some, but given many are but fueled by a minimum number of people, they will continue just at a lesser pace.
Prices should as well become more attractive as the motivation, eventually, increases by need. Some too may just be trying to move out non prioritized pieces superfluous items at a premium, as speculation and not by motivated needs.
Personally, I feel it more as a social mind set than anything else. An precautionary atmosphere perhaps. It is pervasive and affective to degrees which account to their own financial and security levels. Recessions are marketing and emotional depressants too. Recovery from them requires changes, both temporal and long lasting at times.
Another year, two or so, all will be less bumpy. Three tops.
It may be for the best in the end, if this period enables folks to become more attached to values in life rather than to mere indiscriminate costs and previous discretionary spending habits.
If nothing else, paitience will get experienced by many, like it or not.