I'd like to take issue with the last statement, or statements. I think many
people still strive for good sound. There are also still amateur radio
enthusiasts, and people who build electronic things as well. The trendiness
of whatever may be gone but the people still exist and so do the
aspirations.

The snag these days is that sounds are altered so much before you get your
hands not them that it can be a bit of a struggle.

Compressed audio and psycho- acoustics and lossy compression which can
sound OK are all in there and I guess just like we had the cassette will
never be hi fi, and digital sounds wrong, only vinyl is right will go on and
on for ever...
Brian

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"David Looser" wrote

But the OP went on to say that "we're just chewing over old bones here"
and, since this is an audio (not "HiFi") newsgroup


Really? Perhaps you might care to read the actual wording of the ukra
charter:

"uk.rec.audio is an unmoderated newsgroup. It is primarily a forum for
discussion of hi-fi equipment available in the UK, a place for
independant
reviews and opinions on hi-fi, and an advice centre for those bitten by
the upgrade bug. It may include discussions on what hi-fi is trying to do
(accurately reproduce music? a 'live' acoustic?) and its development. It
is also a site for the private sale and exchange of used hi-fi
components."


Who reads charters? It's called uk.rec.*audio* and as far as I am
concerned
audio means audio. If it was intended to be confined to narrowly defined
"HiFi" it should have been called uk.rec.hifi.


The sad truth is the 'enthusiasts' you mention have been driven out by
abuse from a small number (past and present) here and they have actually
moved on to becoming 'hifi/audio enthusiasts' who simply don't post (or
subscribe) here!


Are you talking about the fact that "HiFi" as a hobby has largely
disappeared? If so I cannot for the life of me see the relevance of what
anyone "here" may or may not have done. The simple fact is that just like
"Wireless" in the 1920s and Amateur Radio in the '50s and '60s "HiFi" as a
hobby has fallen out of fashion. Partly because modern electronics (not
just
"digital") is so much less amenable to tinkering, but also because there
are
so many other things these days for people to devote their time and money
too.

David.