Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went?

Cables, people, cables. They are getting better. Recordings are getting worse - no digital so far can match top analogue. Electronics is a debatable point in many cases. Speakers - I don't know. Top turntables are probably even better than before.

" I'm sure, you'll get  there one day, but for now you can enjoy the sound from Best Buy."

Oh, you're quite the wise ass tannoy56! So I'm supposed to hear all of those "nuances" over computer speakers? You thought that was a worthy demo track and you're looking down on Best Buy? That's funny.

tannoy:

The sound of the speakers you linked on YouTube video is not very good (and that's putting it mildly).

I went the extra step and played it (the video) through my mini-system via the iMac  and the sound was even worse.

I have a small vinyl collection of Maori tribal music and it sounds a LOT BETTER on my vintage single driver speakers than it does on the speakers in that video.

Whether the problem is with the video/recording quality, or not I do not know, but I do know that it (the video) sounds awful.

DeKay

What I posted was original and not a recording of speakers. It shows all that is missing and was added.  YouTube videos are near worthless to determine anything about audio components.

dekay

The video I presented to you is not to be evaluated as a critical listening experience of the system, but to provide the viewer with some ideas and hint of what is possible to achieve with vintage drivers, transformers, capacitors etc. In addition, the recording was made in a hotel room at the Munich hi-fi show - not in a professional studio/environment with the best possible tools for recording. Furthermore, I was present in the room and can tell you that under those inadequate recording  conditions ,  that the sound reproduction by the system was near spectacular.