In his enthusiastic post, Rich M wrote:
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I have been showing my system to friends and now their interests are getting keener. I think there are a lot of people who feel you need to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get a great hi-fi when in reality that just isn't so. Yes you can spend that money but you can also spend what your budget will allow and still get a great system.
I think most of us here would agree with this sentiment. However, in response to Rich, Clay points to some facts and raises an important question:
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I certainly hope you're right, Rich, and that lots of young people are on the brink of the kind of commitment you've just made to hi-fi. Many factors, as I suspect you know, seem to be pointing in the other direction. You point to one of them in your post - buying that 99 cent download instead of a CD. How do you reconcile low rez downloads with the pursuit of higher fidelity?
I think that as long as low-fidelity exists, in whatever form, hi-fidelity will also exist, but it's still important to address this. There are some people in this industry who feel the term "digital music," itself will, in the near future, disappear, simply because all music will be digital. The great fear, then, is that the world of music, in general, will be populated by low-rez files and the casual listener will even forget what "good" sounds sound like, will, in fact, never know what good sounds sound like. If all music becomes digital, is it possible that all those digital files will be low-rez? How will this be avoided?
In his enthusiastic post, Rich M wrote:
I think most of us here would agree with this sentiment. However, in response to Rich, Clay points to some facts and raises an important question:
I think that as long as low-fidelity exists, in whatever form, hi-fidelity will also exist, but it's still important to address this. There are some people in this industry who feel the term "digital music," itself will, in the near future, disappear, simply because all music will be digital. The great fear, then, is that the world of music, in general, will be populated by low-rez files and the casual listener will even forget what "good" sounds sound like, will, in fact, never know what good sounds sound like. If all music becomes digital, is it possible that all those digital files will be low-rez? How will this be avoided?