Living in the smack middle of the USA surrounded by corn in a society where audio is whatever they tell you it is, and high end audio is an incomprehensible psychedelic concept too ridiculous to be taken seriously… an audiophile could feel a little lost. Around here, high end shops sell mid fi - that to the encompassing miss informed local mass, appears to be hi fi.

I guess keeping this in perspective, I would think that possibly say what… 95% of this entire country fall into the same category of perceived audio nirvana phobia, where an appreciation for the emotional / spiritual intercourse with music does not exist.

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