If hi-fi ever grows into the mainstream...
I doubt that will ever happen. It takes a lot more work and attention to the details to be worth the time to a majority of people.
I'm afraid your right. Case in point. Here at work today, two of my friends returned from the holidays bragging about their Boxing day finds. The first was a Sony receiver with no HDMI ports, a built in DVD player and only composite and older inputs,(that's right "composite".) But it was an awesome deal because it was a Sony was her reply to my inquiries. The other was a small subwoofer chosen because it fits in a cabinet.
I refrained from negatively commenting on their purchases so as to not destroy their excitement.
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