"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
m...

I'd like to take issue with the last statement, or statements. I think
many people still strive for good sound.

Some do, though how much "striving" does it take these days? Buy some
reasonably decent kit, install it in a reasonably competent way and the
sound you will get is going to be pretty much as good as your acoustic
environment will allow.

There are also still amateur radio enthusiasts,

Of course there are, but only a very tiny number comapred to the '50s and
'60s.

and people who build electronic things as well.

Indeed, but again only a very few compared to those that did so in the '50s,
'60s and '70s. It's a *lot* harder to do so these days unless you are
deliberately being "retro". Build your own portable mp3 player?, laptop?,
sat nav?, I don't think so. Of course you can still build your own valve
amplifier, but why bother?

The trendiness of whatever may be gone but the people still exist and so
do the aspirations.

What "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.

If you listen to "pop" maybe, but try listening to something worthwhile
instead!


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...

Vinyl was never "right". It always created all sorts of distortions. Try
reading up on the subject (or actually listening to the crap that comes off
a vinyl disc!).

David.