Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
The other thing that one has to bear in mind, is that the younger crowd
doesn't have any interest in prestige-level audio equipment that is
exceeded in quality by the humble Yamaha HS50M / HS80M + HS10M pairing
- likely the very equipment that the recording was studio mastered on.
Mixed on, sure, but does anyone master on the humble Yamaha HS50M?
For mastering they're going to use something much larger, e.g. the big
SLS Audio Studio Reference Series or or the PMC BB5.
http://www.peerlessmastering.com/equipmentlist.html
http://www.fluidmastering.com/studio.htm
The audiophile market is so infested with snake oil salesmen that
it's little wonder that this always-tiny segment of the market is
rapidly falling by the wayside. Once a year or so I buy an issue of
Stereophile in order to re-acquaint myself with the laughable
vocabulary and incredibly priced equipment, just for a laugh.
Amen to that, brother. Amen.
Andrew.