High End Audio and Video manufacturers need to do a better job outreaching to new consumers in both education and advertising. High End manufactuers do make more inexpensive gear, people just need to know about them. It sounds simplistic but not to far from the truth.
I think that high end manufacturer's need word of mouth salesmenship. Seriously, I think their best bet is to make it really really cheap for stores like Best Buy to build a home-theatre sample room that actually is high-end.
So far, when I go into a futureshop and go into their theatre room and listen to their extremely noisy speakers made by 'Sony' I shrug. I go to a local home audio enthusaist show room called the 'Home Theatre Attic' and listen to the sounds of their PIB LoudSpeaker A1Bs, etc it almost blows you away and makes you feel like your in the movie. There's the 'wow' immersiion factor.
You really don't become a home theatre enthusiast until you actually hear high-end and at the moment, you won't ever hear high end in a big box store which is at the moment where the majority of americans do their home theatre shopping. If high end manufacturers setup home-theatre display rooms in big box stores, they could wow many new customers into seeing the worth of paying $275/pair to $500/pair and buy 1-2 pairs at a time and slowly build a home theatre rather than buying $500 dollar home-theatre-in-a-happy-meal-box.
That's at least how I made my home theatre. As a kid, I remember working my minimum wage part-time job while in college, saving a few bucks every paycheque for a few weeks and then buying a $200.00 pair of speakers which was like $300 now adays and slowly buying speaks every few weeks till I had a 5.1! setup rather than doing what most teenagers my day did and buy a cheap-htiab "Sony" 2.2(two speakers with build in sub on each speaker) ystem /w cd player that did mp3s and used the 'aux' via red/white analog cords from their vcr/dvd player.
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High End Audio and Video manufacturers need to do a better job outreaching to new consumers in both education and advertising. High End manufactuers do make more inexpensive gear, people just need to know about them. It sounds simplistic but not to far from the truth.
I think that high end manufacturer's need word of mouth salesmenship. Seriously, I think their best bet is to make it really really cheap for stores like Best Buy to build a home-theatre sample room that actually is high-end.
So far, when I go into a futureshop and go into their theatre room and listen to their extremely noisy speakers made by 'Sony' I shrug. I go to a local home audio enthusaist show room called the 'Home Theatre Attic' and listen to the sounds of their PIB LoudSpeaker A1Bs, etc it almost blows you away and makes you feel like your in the movie. There's the 'wow' immersiion factor.
You really don't become a home theatre enthusiast until you actually hear high-end and at the moment, you won't ever hear high end in a big box store which is at the moment where the majority of americans do their home theatre shopping. If high end manufacturers setup home-theatre display rooms in big box stores, they could wow many new customers into seeing the worth of paying $275/pair to $500/pair and buy 1-2 pairs at a time and slowly build a home theatre rather than buying $500 dollar home-theatre-in-a-happy-meal-box.
That's at least how I made my home theatre. As a kid, I remember working my minimum wage part-time job while in college, saving a few bucks every paycheque for a few weeks and then buying a $200.00 pair of speakers which was like $300 now adays and slowly buying speaks every few weeks till I had a 5.1! setup rather than doing what most teenagers my day did and buy a cheap-htiab "Sony" 2.2(two speakers with build in sub on each speaker) ystem /w cd player that did mp3s and used the 'aux' via red/white analog cords from their vcr/dvd player.