Originally Posted By: Teunis
Here is another take that makes a whole lot of sense to me.

He mentions hi-end audio and I'm someone who's had such a system for a long time now.

Around 2003 I'd taken a voluntary redundancy and was working on designs for high-end audio systems, aiming at the time to compete with the likes of Naim, Linn, Mark Levington.

Things for me took a turn and I put the designs on hold for a while. When I was ready to carry on, it was 2005 and I was already getting quite unhappy about the directions of music production. Too much compression on CDs, and the move to things like iPods and mobile 'phones, where portability and convenience were trumping recording and production quality (IMHO). So often people were listening to **** and didn't really seem to care. By then, audiophiles were complaining that CDs were tiring to listen to and not involving enough, though few then seemed to understand why.

I put the project on hold again and there it remained.

There was no point to high-end audio systems if the content itself was no longer to be high-end. Personally I think that's all too often still true.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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