personqally i don't know where are we heading in this industry, we all tried so hard to open members of the growing up public over all those years to the wonderfull world of hi-fi and music being reproduced in a wonderfull way that , not only gave most of us a wonderfull entrtaiment and hobby,from late 60's i will say to the mid 80's but it all went pearshape, now we have to be dominated, not only by reviews, and "taste of the momth" but we went on line to sell what we have in stock to make ends meet, therefor the enthusiasm on dealing with j. public has died, and high prices on some if not all are becoming too expensive for new comers,so the issue of this is ebay and so forth,
sorry to bore you with nostalgia, think that maybe just maybe, ABARICE is the culprit.
regards nando.