[Arny Krueger]

"Audio Empire" wrote in message



But good equipment is a good audio investment.

Really not so good if sonic performance is your main criteria.

While you
maintain that every modern piece of electronic equipment
sounds the same,

How many times do I need to correct this flagrant error?

I maintain that they are all different.

At some microscopic level, everything is different even the channels of
every component with 2 or more channels.

I do agree that the differences are inconsequential in
the long run (mostly. There are exceptions), and that
lots of equipment is overpriced for the performance
advantage that it might enjoy over lesser equipment, but
I am sure that such differences do exist. It's up to you
whether or not they are important enough to you to pay
the price.

The concept of "lesser equipment" is the question.

Last time I was through Detroit, it looked like the
entire populace would have to pool their financial
resources just to buy a newspaper!

There's a big difference between the demographics related to the 951,270 or
so people who live in Detoit and the over 4 million people who live in the
Detroit area.

However, you may be surprised to learn that even the city itself is far from
being homogenious, and there is plenty of honest money in some hands.

I've never seen such poverty and urban blight in my life!

There are worse places, even in the US. Detroit city is actually on a bit
of an uptick since about 6 years ago, even with the recession and all.
There was a period of about 20 years where vanishing numbers building
permits were issued. There is now a modest amount of new construction.

For example Detroit's riverfront was virtually 100% industrialized since the
late 1800s. There is now a scenic River Walk (a chain of privately-owned but
with 100% public access, as well as city and state parks) that runs for
about 4 miles of the river front, centered on downtown. It includes two
large very active entertainment venues, a medium-sized high fashion shopping
mall, a back-to-nature state park, new SOTA marinas for pleasure boats, and
other areas of interest. Some of these anchor elements have been around for
a while, but they are now all tied together. The older ones have been
refurbished just lately. My wife and I have been visiting it and inspecting
the new additions as they came on stream. (The stream being the nearly mile
wide Detroit River which is now pollution free). Great view of Canada to
the south. ;-)

The city is a
disgrace to this country. Detroit makes Oakland CA look
like Beverly Hills by comparison!

Detroit had a head start on passing its prime. :-(