New York HiFi Show: Tubes and Turntables

EBM totally agreed Chester sucks. They said they had some sponership on WBGO I wonder what that meant.

Seeing the same old faces is both great and horrifying. One person commented that they say no one under 40 yikes!

The industry is doing a piss poor job of educating the public that hey there is  world beyond Sonos and Bose. 

Whart I disagree, hifi was in the 50, 60,70 and to some extent the 80's and 90's was everywhere.

When I was growing up, kids had stereos in their rooms and a house had a couple of TV's people listened to music. 

Now between the internet, and a new generation of kids that listen to music through crappy headphones and think this is great this is why we are makinng new audiophiles. combine this with cutting of music eduction in high school's  leads to where we are.

Did you see CNN, New York Times, Forbes, Business insider? Did you see underwriting with the local progressive music stations, WFMU, WFUV?

Nope and Nope, High end audio is a heavily American industry that most people if given a change introduction might be interested in moving to some kind of better system.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

The current hifi sales model is falling apart:

http://www.theaudiobeat.com/news/neodio.htm

Audio shows are "Gear" conventions, not conventions for music appreciation.

' Audio shows are "Gear" conventions, not conventions for music appreciation. "

http://ohmspeaker.com/news/standing-room-only/

Note the "slogan"

@mapman the Ohm room disappointed me more than any other.  Honestly, if what they displayed represents the product accurately, I cannot even consider these speakers to offer anything approaching high fidelity.

Now, it's not that I don't consider myself an Ohm supporter.  My friend has one of the few (11?) pairs of Walsh A, that Lincoln Walsh began putting together prior to his sudden and untimely death.  My friend is a well known loudspeaker magician, and got the speaker working as he felt it should.  I've been around more speakers than I can count, and these are the single most impressive loudspeaker I've encountered.  In fact, when he illustrates how the speaker works in comparison to everything else, every other loudspeaker design doesn't seem to have a prayer.  Now, that's all well and good, but the important and obvious question is how do they sound?  Well, it's the only loudspeaker that I've experienced that can take hold of your insides and literally scare you to death.  And going up from the low frequencies, everything sounds as good as it gets.

For what it's worth, I found a couple of rooms that offered what I considered good sound, despite their usual affordability, Cambridge among them