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Will Technology Kill the Audiophile Hobby?

Imagine audio technology in 2,000 years.

Maybe your stereo is the size of a deck of cards. Speakers are invisible. Cables are not used. Active room treatment built into the walls.

Is that the end of our hobby and fascination with audio gear? 
Is our identity in the big blocks of metal and wood? What happens to us?
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erik_squires
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cakyol
940 posts
 
To help climate change, I propose all class A and A/B amps are forbidden, only class D should remain.

Furthermore, they should work with windmills since there will not be any electricity generation left soon due to abandoning fossil fuel use.

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez
electroslacker
375 posts
 
High-end audio is like Walter Cronkite. In its/his heyday there wasn’t that much competition, so it got top-of-mind and was magical and worth pursuing. Now, you’d be hard pressed to find a brain that would tolerate a Looonnng Playing record. In a world of technical magic, the song no longer remains the same
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nonoise
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Furthermore, they should work with windmills since there will not be any electricity generation left soon due to abandoning fossil fuel use.
They cried the same cry when we banned whale hunting for lamp oil.


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chrismini
62 posts
 
No because fools, I mean people like us. With digital technologies getting cheaper it'll be easier to have high-end sound.
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