High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground?

you are more than welcome to shop at my discogs iriedog account or any other account to see vinyl prices and they're not $30. you can find great titles(but hurry up) for $5 or bellow in perfect condition.

my storefront is full of teenagers purchasing records at various prices too depending on value. i'm optimistic and cheered to have great sales that bring joy to people.

i was born in rural area with no stores around, no roads in the middle of woods. the only my toy was old phonograph and records that gave me love to music. after curious roaming in the attic, i discovered old dusty 2-row harmonica and started picking melodies i listened on old phonograph. the demand for audio quality i found out much much later in my youth when moved to the large city.

It's just not as hard nor expensive to get very high quality sound these days. It's becoming more of a commodity, like most popular things technical do over time.

So audio is gaining higher ground in this sense, but its a totally different world and set of rules. Most people just want to listen and enjoy, not dwell on things as is the norm with "high end audio".

Whether its al for the better or not is probably a matter of perspective, but the old school audiophile mentality is definitely an endangered species.

Best to get with the times and just ride the wave, perhaps?

Cool story, Czarivey. :D

Macrojack, your comments are right on. Audiophiles as a group are in horrible denial about the future. Reminds me of one of the 12 step programs.

Macrojack and others of a similar opinion. While there is value in being "realistic" in one's outlook on any given subject, sometimes this "realism" is nothing more than cynicism and counterproductive negativity masquerading as pragmatism if one considers all the facts and related issues. In my opinion the topic of this discussion is of a higher order than most as it is linked to something of undeniably great value: music. Call me naive, but music and all that relates to quality production of it is best served by honoring it with a more uplifting and hopeful attitude; in keeping with the purpose of music itself. The pursuit and discussion of quality music reproduction is far more than discussion about the different types of makeup that a cover girl may use as someone cynically suggested in an earlier post. The fact that for some the high-end is only a status symbol is irrelevant. For many of us it is about maximizing what music listening has to offer; even if not necessary. I don't believe that this is a pursuit that will stop having supporters in a substantial way as long as there is quality music being produced by artists; and, if one understands the true nature of art it will be with us as long as we are.