RonM wrote: > I don't know, there still seem to be lots of people buying high-end > speakers out there. I suspect that the same demographic who bought > great speakers to play vinyl on in the 50s and 60s and who converted to > digital sources (CDs) in the 80s will be doing so going forward. There > has always been a large element of the music-listening public for whom > quality of reproduction was less important. That's the demographic that > bought all the small component kits and the boomboxes with tape players > (and later CD players) built in. Granted the ubiquity of cloud-based > music and the iTunes purchase world has changed things, but how much, > really? > I know it's anecdotal, but I'm amazed when I go to (richer) people's houses with big rooms, massive TVs and high-end furniture, then they have an basic iPod dock/speaker kit for their music needs, playing their collection of 128kpbs iTunes tracks. I think the demographic you describe are dwindling in favour of convenience. Just like your TV-to-smartphone comparison.
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