[D555]

Hello,

"Streetstyles" -- Does anybody really buy those things? I guess people do. Someone must think the masses want it because the mass marketers are filled with them.

Getting on the paranoid soapbox:

I wonder if the "good stuff" is artificially priced high so the "cheap stuff" looks more attractive. Here's the logic: Cultivate a generation that doesn't know better or can't "afford" better. That way people become increasingly ignorant of quality and expect less and can't possibly believe that anything priced higher could be better. The cheap stuff then becomes "good enough" and the expensive stuff is for "golden-eared geeks".

I wonder what people and focus groups are surveyed when developing a new product? I wish someone would survey me. I guess my opinion in such a survey would get tossed out because it would be on the trailing edge of a bell curve.

Off the soapbox....

Thanks for reading.

Paul

 

[usc goose]

i personally like the h.ear model streetstyles. but that's probably just me.

 

[D555]

Hello,

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. It kind of riles me that the manufacturers are spending so much money in creative injection molding so as to have the latest disposable style of the month.

I would hope that same money would be spent on R&D for circuitry instead. I guess if the "powers that be" think the sound is good enough then what to do to keep competitive? That means a new finish or other stylings. Sound quality is probably a much harder sell.

Personally, I find most of the "extreme styles" or, especially, the mini-stereo shelf systems to be unbelievably ugly. Different strokes...

Paul