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DEATH_OF_HIFI

                                                       September 12, 2006

I never would have believed it at the
time, but I grew up during what was
apparently the tail-end of what was                  That's short for
just a fad for "Hi-Fi".                              "high fidelty",
                                                     you punks.
I thought people really *liked* the good
sound quality of large speakers and clean              And "sci-fi",
amps...                                                was a riff
                                                       off of hi-fi.
It turns out that really they just like    
having the latest gadgets, they don't      
really seem to care what they are.         
                                        
The kind of people who used to compete on        
speaker size now compete on how many badly       
compressed sound files they can squeeze into     
their little digital players.                   I never particularly
                                                liked the "cd sound"...
                                                 
                                                     CLEAN_AND_BRIGHT

                                                     DEATH_OF_THE_ALBUM

                                                But just when you
                                                thought things
                                                couldn't get worse...




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