High demand? Containers remain on the dock with insufficient help to load them on the few tractor trailers? Lack of truck drivers to move the stuff to the stores for their shelves. Cargo ships wait out at sea because they can’t get off loaded. Everywhere you go there are help wanted signs. Southwest airlines cancelled over 1000 flights because of pilot shortage and the vaccine mandate. Now they have relented. But the vaccine mandate may be the final straw to break the fragile on time shipping/stocking system. Then too, they have spent 1 1/2 yrs scaring the crap out of people with the flu which has a 99.5 % recovery rate. This hasn’t helped either. But because this is negative news, they roll out the "unusual high demand" idea in hopes that people will buy into it. I don’t.
As to how it has effected my audio, I was planning to send my JLTi phono preamp down to Australia for an upgrade. But now, I’m not sure it is a good idea due to everything being at a crawl now. On a positive note, I could sell my 2018 Silverado pickup for the price I paid for it. But IF hyperinflation hits like it did in Venezuela , the $$$ will be worth less than the pickup. I hope @mahgister (& I) are wrong about the future
As to how it has effected my audio, I was planning to send my JLTi phono preamp down to Australia for an upgrade. But now, I’m not sure it is a good idea due to everything being at a crawl now. On a positive note, I could sell my 2018 Silverado pickup for the price I paid for it. But IF hyperinflation hits like it did in Venezuela , the $$$ will be worth less than the pickup. I hope @mahgister (& I) are wrong about the future