Should there only be one company making gear?

Sounds like Third-World Country Automobile Paint Finishes? You can have it in any Color as long as it's Black!

"The world looks mighty good to me, cause ONE tootsie roll is all I see" doesn't have the same ring???

Gosh Nrchy - What if you state came true, & your choices for High End audio components where limited to the shelves at Circuit-City???

I think my ears are too spoiled like Paris Hilton's, to understand the term "Generic"???

Or I see it now BG Audio, let's not give Bill Gates any idea's!

Ha Slappy, a CES Show in a room so small you have to leave to change your mind. Oops but then you can't as there are no alternative choices!

It's all a bad nightmare Nrchy, make it go away!

Could we call it Freedom Audio? Oh, could we please????

would you want one choice of shirt to wear?
One band on CD/LP to listen to?
One kind of car to drive?
One nationality?
this thread is 'different'

Sure, and that would be the same day we all agree on the best music, women (sorry, Elizabeth!), cars, vacation sites, vodka, tequila, and best boxer of all time. Easy enough, don't you think?