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Barriers to Hi-Fi


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21 hours ago, GUTB said:

 

Just go to /r/audiophile on Reddit. Also Vinyl Engine, Steve Hoffman. CA is on the higher end of the audio spectrum being mostly older men. Head-Fi is a mix of serious audiophiles and hardcore objectivist have-nothings.

How about providing and actual link(s) , not a month long task of reading thousands of post on multiple forums.  Gee

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5 minutes ago, realhifi said:

Two of the biggest factors in the turn away from traditional Hi-Fi was the invention of the in wall (in ceiling) speaker and Bose. Bose came out with tiny cubes that were sold as “disappearing” speakers and from that moment on the public was convinced you could get great sound from tiny speakers that they could hide anywhere. Women especially saw these new tiny speakers as a godsend and they quickly became a standard and were constantly referenced to by interior designers who wanted to get rid of the “big ugly boxes” (their words, not mine!) that most speaker companies were making at the time. 

 

The in ceiling / in wall speaker took this to yet to yet another level in that you barely had to know something was in the room as it blended into ceilings flush and pretty much completely got out of the way as far as interior decorating. Aesthetic took precedence over sound and pretty soon you saw larger bookshelf or floor standing speakers only in houses where, you guessed it, audiophiles lived. This change has happened over the course of the last 30 odd years as the first in walls were marketed around 1984. 

Anyone that doesn’t think this has been a sea change in how Music is listened to in the home has not been paying attention as it has become THE standard in new home construction. Now it is little wireless speakers that are being touted as the answer with brands like Sonos and (again) Bose leading the charge. Trying to go backward to a time when you walked into a “stereo” shop and saw literally dozens of choices of boxes in many different price ranges is just not going to happen. The majority of the public has moved on from those days and I really can’t imagine that it will change as the industry moves forward. 

 

Ok its like your saying,  blame it on the wifey acceptance factor for the downfall of Hi-Fi :D , makes one think outside the big old speaker box.

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