Notice how the article refers to the music industry, but the title refers to the audio industry? This is such a smoke screen. Audiophiles are a minority when it comes to music purchasing, so how can we have sufficient influence to affect the industry? What's the average age of an audiophile, mid-50's? How much popular music is targeted to that demographic? That we buy any current popular music is probably more of an anomoly, a small blip on the sales chart. Yet, because we care about the sound, and can reference the bygone days to "validate" our impressions, we are hurting the audio / music industry? Bulls&&t!
Granted, many of us complained about CD quality (and considering the improvements made over the years, with justification), but again, that didn't stop CD playback from taking over the marketplace. So now the majority of buyers don't want to listen to a complete recording, they'd rather just download the "good bits". That's our fault?