...submitted for your...

Understood...I tried to 'get' guitar, but my muscle memory wasn't up to it.....

"I shoulda' learned to play the guitar,
I shoulda' learned to play them drums..."
Woulda' been more successful at that.... 🤷‍♂️  Knopfler later commented:

"The lead character in ‘Money for Nothing’ is a guy who works in the hardware department in a television/custom kitchen/refrigerator/microwave appliance store. He’s singing the song. I wrote the song when I was actually in the store. I borrowed a bit of paper and started to write the song down in the store. I wanted to use a lot of the language that the real guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real. It just went better with the song, it was more muscular. I actually used ‘little faggot,’  (...which got the song banned in the UK for awhile) but there are a couple of good ‘mo_my edits_uckers’ in there. I wanted to do a second version that way but I never had time. I’d still love to be able to do it. Even if just the band had it, because it would be the real version. I mean that is the way people speak. I think people still get the general idea. You can use other words that will suggest the general feel."

("...I shoulda' went back and gave him song cred,
but I didn't and I'm a millionaire..")....and a rip-off Brit, you snot *L*

Ev 'n I got to see them live in SF @ The Old Waldorf 3/31/79, 5th row...great show...

One of the guys lit a cigarette, stuck a 'fay' pose as an opening for 'Les Boys". so their gay teasing had history....starting with 'Sultans of Swing'...

The 'Old Waldorf' never was 'old', and is now know as the Punch Line comedy club...and is part of a line of high rises and always has been... ;)

Don't be sorry for either....I liked Groucho for his one-liners and wit, but would always pause to hear Harpo play his harp....always entertaining, and proof that silence has its' benefits....you never have to worry 'bout the taste of shoe leather.

Because of my admiration of Harpo, I took in a small concert of 4 harpists back in Houston....playing jazz harp...👍😆😊....a good waste of time, and atypical for TX.

Time to put the memory mechanism into park, since I'd wander off into lanes untold.

Anyway:

To try to wander back into the point of the post that started this....

Given the states of SOTA, or even the SOWhat’sAvailable (oh, so close to SoWhat...*L*), where does anyone think certain aspects of ’mid-fi’ or ’upper mid-fi’ ought to go towards, given the expense of current items in the audio chain?

To expand on this, imho, or just a leap into raising a fuss or cane...

A percentage of my equipment is mounted on rack rails, for my convenience; the 6 two channel distribution amp is at the bottom, x-overs (3, one sub only) above, multiple eqs at varied points, and signal(s) directivity (4 of the latter; three digital, one manually switched) means next.  Oh, and a nice pre that can (or not) be applied....
This allows for cable runs to be short, point to point...

7 discrete sources available; 7 discrete pairs of drivers available, 3 of which are available to be driven as a ’triamped pair’ as a general rule...

One sub....one must simplify Somewhere....*L* ...although have the means to add 4 single subs of varied dimensions and drive needs, but lack the amps to drive them properly.  Could have multiple pair as well, but have already run out of space.
And is in the process of shrinking, but that's another problem.

Obviously, a handful...but an intentional one. Well, maybe, both hands... ;)

I would like, as with pro audio, to turn over control to one of 2 computers currently in charge of part of ’my show’, be it a personal one...

I’d like to see a blank rack case that could house multiple amps of varied configs; mono, 2 chan., perhaps a 4 chan. Various wattages as needed by application.

All inputs co-ordinated by ’puter driven processor (or more, again by app.).

Obviously all D amps, all running fans....

The difference would be that it would all be ’scale-able’; start (and stay if desired) small, but capable of being grown in whatever fashion or desired outcome one wishes...

Quality of the individual items would hold to a standard.

Kiss obsolescence goodbye, hopefully.

Unless some miracles happen, which at this time, only adding another zero to the right of the decimal point...

...if you can hear that at all.

Any thoughts...rants...revulsions...?

Taking the cable conundrums to a different level, I remain yours unruly, J

All of this cost a pittance, in relation to what some have spent....

'Black' background...If the recording or source sounds like rewarmed 'dukey', it's obvious.

Yes, I Know some of what I post is like that...it's like that here, but I've high tolerance levels...SOMy'A'....

@asvjerry - The Punch Line is what used to be the backstage dressing room at the Old Waldorf. The performance part of the club was turned into offices of some kind. It was called the Old Waldorf because they kept the name from a previous location, which I think was around Divisadero, in a much older building; I was there once... 

@larsman , I’d heard of a previous site, but never had the pleasure...

Probably from those ’60’s when I was in my teens, wondering and curious about the ’goings on’ in the Bay....
Got a brief glimpse when a family friend took us for a daytrip to The City from Watsonville, and drove down Haight on a return loop from GG Park.

It was a sunny Saturday postnoon with all the creatures out, about, and likely from any state and in any state.... Quite Rightly a Scene, bound to be the very next phase....

And was, but not there, in that time nor that spaced. ;)