What's going on with the audio market?

jmcgrogan2 what was your system at 16? I ask because I had a complete load of crap at that age...

@infection , as I said earlier, it was my first system, but I wouldn’t call it serious audio. I didn’t get into serious audio until I was 28 years old.

At 16 I bought a pair of Altec Lansing Model 9 speakers, coupled them with a big old Pioneer receiver, a Technics turntable, and an Akai tape deck. All brand new, I didn’t know about used stuff back then.

I bought it all while my parents were away for the weekend. They were very unhappy when they came home. Those were the days (1976).
Risky Business before the movie came out. ;^)

I would have loved that when I was 16 in 1991.
So what did you have at 28?

As far as the future goes, things like quantum entanglement(which they are learning that more than photons and spin can be quantum entangled) leave us hope. I think we(as ordinary citizens) need to come up with stuff, as the powers-that-be would be busy trying to figure out how to make money from it.   For instance, I've found that energy and (some parts) of weather(this last one is a possible recent discovery by me) can be transferred also.  We just have a lack of imagination, and a lot of 20th century thinking, dominating much of what we call science.

The Internet is impacting brick-and-motors. Some people brag about listening to equipment in a store, making a decision based upon their audition and the dealer's recommendation and then purchasing it for less on the Internet. Ethical to burn the dealer's overhead like that?