The whole article is based on A person's opinion without any facts at all. That's what makes the internet so dangerous, anyone can write anything, no facts, just an opinion in their attempt to be "someone".
My take on audio or music. People like music "their way" using whatever device within their means to do so. And the majority of the people in the world who are walking around on the street or driving in their cars or even setting at home could careless what bit rate was used it's how the music sounds to their ears. It has nothing to do with an Audiophile or even the engineer or the musician. It all comes down to the consumer, that's it...as someone said in the age of Marketing and Sales, remember the Consumer is Always Right. So the market followed the consumers wishes, downloads galore for those iPods, iphones etc..
This Archer guys writes about engineers and musicians, well in today's market the goal of any musician is to make money either by selling their music or through selling tickets at concerts and the audio engineers job is helping the musician get there, that's it your basic business model is to make money. So don't blame a few audiophiles for liking their music their way using their equipment, blame the consumer and the age of the internet, iPods, earbuds and music downloads.
And the last time I took a look, people are not herds of cows being led to an audio listening stations ( at least not yet) to get their dose of the "next best song". They still have a choice and Archer missed that as well.
