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Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like?

Seems like in the past 25 years audio has changed so much - cassettes, cds, servers, hard drives...... composite speaker materials..... network servers..... surround sound - AV systems.....
One can only wonder what systems will consist of 25 years from now.
Clearly there's a trend towards computers meshing with TV/Audio...
I wonder what audiophiles will utilize for components, source material and technologies.
Some aspects of audio become obsolete ex) cassettes yet others like turn tables - LPs, tube based components seem to evolve and endure.
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zd542
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The entire Library of Congress will be compressed on to a little chip that sounds horrible and no one will care because its digital.
sounds_real_audio
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There will be a bunch of lonely old men, with tinnitus staring at a light bulb they think is a tube amplifier playing music.
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dweller
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Sony has been granted patents to beam sound and video directly into your brain (I swear I read this somewhere!).
You come home from work, put your slippers and your "Headman" helmet on and are transported to the reality of your choice.
marqmike
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I think that well heeled individuals will have robots that play music and sing. However that will cause you to wish you had the pasts 'perfect sound forever'. Music will have more rocket and space ship sounds. I think one song that will top the charts is 'the little old lady from quadrant fourteen' written by the 'spacey peach boooys'.
schubert
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If the US continues on its chosen course of playing world policeman there will be none.
Here anyway.
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