Should there only be one company making gear?

ONE item that is part of the reproducing chain that we just accept as is AIR.
Free, and comes in several trillion different scents, but basically the same.
Get yours now(
the sound waves gotta get to your ear...)

its phillips' and sony's world, the rest rest of us just live in it.

My motivation in asking this was due to the RAGE expressed by certain people, even some who have posted on this thread, that hate anyone who does not have, and appreciate the same gear they have.

In these days of political correctness all this hostility cannot be allowed. It amazes me the venom that some people are willing to spew on those with other likes and dislikes. If there were no choices there would be no controversy, and we could all get along.

Does it make any sense for people to be hostile toward one another because of their choices of stereo gear?

Why not just call the company "Big Brother"? You'd still have your arguments though; Which speaker's better, the Grand Orwellian Rhapsodys, the Winston 1984's, or the O'Brien Conformists?!?

Marco

Nrchy right there with you! Buying a Bose Wave system, & scraping all else! Bose might be the final frontier as a single audio component manufacturer anyhow with their great advertising? Might as well jump aboard now...Titanic or not... BOSE ROCKS!!!