Where Coming Back

The high end store Excaliber in Alexandria closed it's doors around 1986, signaling the death of high end.

Excaliber was a great store. I bought my first high end pre-amp; a CJ PV-7 there when I was just out of college. While my friends were buying their first cars, I was buying audio equipment. Walking through all those rooms at that store and seeing all the equipment I'd been reading about in TAS was very impressive for a young kid like me.

Geoffkait-The Late 80's were the beginning of home theater systems for the masses not the death of hi-end-audio. HEA rebounded in the 90's with better cd playback and the acceptance(of some) with the importance of cables, vibration control and even the early stages of powerline quality. The Y2K decade brought the resurgence of vinyl and the vast improvement in smaller speakers. Currently pc audio is slowly being refined. My point is there will always be people that will search for the "best" sound regardless of the software format. Just like Rock n Roll HEA will never die!

Just like Rock n Roll HEA will never die!

Exactly!

Long live the 'high' end!