Quote Originally Posted by tannoyman View Post
If you are looking for a reason why the audio industry in the UK is a dead man walking and why it will continue to be so, look no further. In mitigation, when these guys meet customers they are usually faced with sycophants rather than customers who tell them the plain unvarnished truth. It can be very dangerous living in a bubble and believing your own publicity!
Ain't that the truth!

What the high-end audio industry needs to do is stop pandering to the snobs with more money than sense, who buy into the 'prestige value' of certain brands and treat audio equipment as an 'aspirational' thing (like jewellery or wrist watches), and get back to ground roots and start appealing again to your average PROPER music and audio enthusiast, who's in the game for the RIGHT reasons and who wants the 'biggest bang for their buck', not a 'fancy' badge to admire and a cosy feeling of smug superiority, because they own £15k speakers, or whatever!!

Unless that happens, or until that happens, the high-end audio industry will go the way of the dodo, and all we'll be left with is fooking computer audio and the iPod/mobile phone generation. What a dreadful thought........

Marco.