Lorenzo74
Senior Member
What do you mean by that? With the possibile exception of the 75000$ Beolab, 20 years from now all of them will be landfill.
And if any of the manufacturers goes out of business or decides to stop selling consumer audio, that one will be trash immediately.
First, I hope their will be recycled in 20 years. We are evolving towards a more sustainable environment culture, everywhere.
I mean simply (as stated by many more entitled than me to speak) that the future of HiFi is in Active speaker where with the clever use of Digital capabilities it is possible to address the limitation of a technology (time domain, frequency domain, dispersion pattern,..) that has went through limited evolution (if we think to moving coil speaker) in the last 50-70 years... why I feel to have just opened Pandora's Box?
Future proof does not mean a speaker has to last forever in the manufacturer portfolio (Klipsch Horn,...), today we change our vehicles much faster than their real life-cycle capability, it is not sustainable but is going to change with C.A.S.E. I guess.
What is future proof is the direction, the ideas embedded in those designs presented to the Audiophile and Professional community.
This to me is quite disruptive especially in those environment (recording studio) where "Audio Science" rules, where audio performance definitely guide final choice and no fancy cables or nice looking cabinet matter.
In this respect Kii Three is gaining a tremendous pace both in lifestyle and professional market segment and this is the evidence that there is a growing percentage of educated listeners willing to invest >10k€ in convenience and quality avoiding as much as possible the impact on their living rooms by Turntable, CD player, DAC - Streamers, DSP, Preamp, Amp cables, stand and/or Speakers...
Those music lovers clearly fill the room with sound of the highest quality and regain the living space at the same time!
Am I challenging any Status Quo?
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