It's European invasion

The aforementioned work in physics and Nobel prizes have no correlation to what's happening with today's North American high-end audio companies.

The people doing that commendable work do not involve themselves in this business.  Listen to the forums and the conversations at shows, and you can see a big change has occurred in the people involved in this realm.  Compare the companies of the past with those of today, and the brain drain becomes obvious

I hate to judge before all the facts are in but it appears somebody has been watching a little bit too much RT TV. 📺

Cut me some slack, Jack. There has always been Burmeister, Kharma, Lamm, Tenor, Jadis, Rogers, Tannoy, mbl, Siltech, Dart Zeel, etc. at the Shows for as long as I can remember. I’m pretty sure this is fake news.

trelja, could you elaborate on this "big change" ?