[Jenn[_2_]]

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[Rockinghorse Winner[_3_]]

In rec.audio.opinion, Jenn had the audacity to say that:

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-99...?tag=nefd.lede

One often overlooked issue is the social aspect of music. The fact that one
can listen to music these days in the company of several thousand people on
sites like youtube, last.fm, imusic is an important consideration. One can
listen and comment on the music in real time.

This virtual community dovetails nicely with popular music, as the latter is
specifically a social not a solitary activity.

Playing records in one's audio den with a a couple of friends was the model
in the 60's and 70's but now the model is a large room, that is virtually
expanded to include several thousand *friends* further subdivided into
cliques to include several dozen individuals apiece.

It's not so much that people don't care for hifi, it's that the technology
currently available doesn't allow for hifi quality streaming audio
reproduction over the internet.

If the owners of web sites would provide the service, and ISP's provided the
bandwidth, hifi audio would be something people would be interested in and
something that could be marketed. But as yet, those conditions don't exist
in the marketplace.

*R* *H*

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