"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
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On Apr 14, 5:40 pm, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:
High End, Traditional Component Audio Get No Respect In
The Marketplace
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0421/078.html
"But the fact is, most people don't want high-end
stereos anymore. Many don't want any stereo at all. The
entire market for traditional home audio
products--speakers, amps, receivers and so forth--will
be about $1.7 billion this year, according to the
Consumer Electronics Association. In contrast, speaker
docks for portable MP3 players will generate more than
$1 billion all by themselves, and sales of MP3 players
will top $5.6 billion."
And your point is what, GOIA?
It takes a truely insane person to expect that every Usenet article is
supposed to make a point.
This is what I've said all along. People choose products for reasons of
their own.
A trivial truism, easily near the limit of your mental powers, ****R.
Portable MP3 docks are not "high-fidelity".
The better of them are arguably more so than say, the LP format.
They are, however, portable.
Shows how little you know, ****R. Many iPod docks are obviously designed to
not be portable - they run off of power line voltage, they are too large and
bulky to be portable, lack carrying handles, etc.
So portablility wins over sound. Yay!
What insanity!
The market has spoken: MP3 is the best thing going.
What happened to: "People choose products for reasons of their own."?
****R, you seem to have decided to contradict yourself within just this
short post. Are you crazy or what?
Everything else is floobydust.
Really ****R - did the voices in your head tell you that? Is that when you
are wearing your aluminum foil hat, or not?