On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:32:12 -0000, "Oliver Keating"
wrote:


I just wonder if this magazine is just designed so that the industry is able
to flog expensive kit.

Unfortunately, that's about it :-(

There's still room for manoeuver in speaker design, and, to a certain
extent, amplifier design. Apart from that, music is now down to
reading bits off digital media, at a considerably slower rate than
state-of-the-art. So, to keep interest up, snake-oil is the only
answer.