Brainstorm Thursday. Are we approaching the Audiophile Singularity?

Yes we are in the sense that vanilla is the most popular flavor,  but that doesn't mean there is no room for others.  Variety is the spice of life.   I prefer to leave it to the recording and room to provide my listening variety, not so much the gear.   Good is good, right is right and the rest is just off somehow.

NoEverybody hears differently and enjoys divergent sounds. 
A pox upon sameness.

There's Us and Them, and then there is THEMUS!

That's right, a little of this, and a little of that, makes me a happy old fellow.

I love garlic, not everybody does.. :-)

Some people likes Twiggy, some people like Raquel Welch! Some people like BOTH and a FEW that don't like either.. Their loss..

Regards

We're past it with DACs and amplifiers. Speakers the next frontier. 

With how advanced computers, materials and manufacturing processes are becoming are we heading toward a time when everything will sound great but kind of the same?

I can point to a number of brands which have lost their color in recent memory, but I can also point to a number which have not or which are pushing the envelope for distinctive sound signatures.

Speaker driver technology, subwoofers and better automatic room correction are not making things flat, but glorious, enabling modest systems to sound like giants.

I think there will always be some neutral point equipment dances around, and a variety of solutions especially in the speaker arena. I'm not worried about a singularity vanquishing variety any time soon.