Reading my copy of free newspaper Metro in July I came across an article on MP3 downloads and why they flourished in the 1990s. Describing today's situation the piece concluded: 'Every city has at least one high-end store and most people don't shop there... The history of recorded music shows consumers favour mobility over fidelity.' It finished with the sentence: 'There's a subset who are obsessed with audio fidelity - they tend to be male, studio engineers or musicians but they're not relevant.' I think we should alert the manufacturers and sellers of high-end audio to the fact that according to this article they are all wasting their time. As are we consumers.
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