Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- audio:american_audio_ages [2018/10/16 00:34] – [What's next?] mithat
+++ audio:american_audio_ages [2018/10/16 00:38] – [Implications for high-end audio] mithat
@@ Line 94: / Line 94: @@
 The high-end's failure to maintain formal relevance to the changing sociology, lifestyle requirements, and lifestyle choices in the greater population is compounded by advances in technology that render promises of heightened experience less convincing.((This is a subject I don't deal with further here but deserving its own paper.)) This without doubt is at the core of the significant downturn in the volume of high-end sales in the last several years in the U.S.
-There are strong indications that depth of the high-end niche (which is to say, the interest on the part of existing user demographics to bear a cost in the pursuit of higher experiences) has saturated in the US. Given this and the fact that the width of a narrowing niche eventually approaches zero, the prognosis for high-end audio isn't good. Even if the former were able to be overcome (e.g., with convincing promises of yet better performance), it still won't stop the progressive narrowing of the niche --- a narrowing caused by the high end's dogged insistence on formal paradigms that are increasingly irrelevant to new user requirements.
+There are strong indications that the depth of the high-end niche (which is to say, the interest on the part of existing user demographics to bear a cost in the pursuit of higher experiences) has saturated in the U.S. Given this and the fact that the width of a narrowing niche eventually approaches zero, the prognosis for high-end audio isn't good. Even if the former were able to be overcome (e.g., with convincing promises of yet better performance), it still won't stop the progressive narrowing of the niche --- a narrowing caused by the high end's dogged insistence on formal paradigms that are increasingly irrelevant to new user requirements.
 In the absence of profound change, the fate of high-end audio in America is clear.