[Andrew Haley]

wrote:
In the article there is a link to the kessler youtube mentioned below.
Apanel of audio folk discuss the current poor health of the audio biz and
customer decline. But in the article there is a small glimmer of light.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/ga...eeks.html?_r=0

Ken Kessler, a veteran audio journalist, summed up the industry's
problems last year at an audiophile conference in Denver. Speaking to a
roomful of mostly middle-aged men, he said: "In the '60s and '70s, if
you opened up Esquire or Playboy and they showed a bachelor pad, there
was a killer sound system in it. Now, there's an iPod dock."

Aww, all this talk about B&O speakers at fantastic cost like something
in the Museum of Modern Art is just consumber fetishism. These days
it's possible to buy something that sonds fabulous by 1970s standards
for a fraction of the price. We should we have to give a **** about
the "aesthetics test"? We're audiophiles, right? We care about the
*sound*. Gimme enormous PMC speakers in studio black every time...

Andrew.