To illustrate this, Table 1 shows a top-quality system assembled from the most recent Stereophile "Recommended Components" listing in October 1993 (Vol.16 No.10):Ĭartridge: Symphonic Line RG-8 Gold $5000 And for the minority who are aware of it, the High End is simply too expensive. In the minds of most music-loving Americans, the High End simply doesn't exist. While it seems we're quick to point fingers and find scapegoats, we haven't addressed the primary causes of high-end audio's apparently inevitable decline. (Then again, it might be the High End's abhorrence of rock'n'roll.) Younger people aren't hopping aboardit must be all those other things competing for their money. Women continue to avoid the High Endit must be the technobabble combined with male equipment fetishism. US dealers are closing at alarming ratesit must be the economy. We all know it but we're apparently unable to resuscitate the patient. Slowly, painfully, high-end audio seems to be dying.
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