Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason! wrote:
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? This is what I've said all along. People
choose products for reasons of their own. Portable MP3 docks are not
"high-fidelity". They are, however, portable. So portablility wins
over sound. Yay!
The market has spoken: MP3 is the best thing going. Everything else is
floobydust.
Why does there have to be a point? The point is discussion, if you
don't understand/dislike that idea, why are you here?
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illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous
mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it
is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."