Another case of "developing technology" catching up with consumer expectations.

In the not too distant future; wireless will eliminate our fun "speaker wire" threads.

Digital amplification will eliminate our large and bulky electronics packages.

Evolving speaker technology and EQing will give us smaller speaker cabinets with the same sonic signatures.

Sophisticated EQing with the "Mic" will give us perfect "Tweek-free" set-ups; meaning that we won't have to interupt our wives TV shows incessantly to fine tune our systems.

In the end, we won't have as much to discuss in these forums.

We won't have the fun of "tweaking"

Our wives won't have bulky audio stuff to complain about and will look at other areas in our lives to attack.

This is progress!!