The Magazines tried to create a market and they sway audiophiles towards trends and towards those who pay to advertise, make no mistake that is their intent. They are now a major marketing tool. Having said that when MQA came out it was only a slightly different way to process, I knew from day one it was more hype than fact, but more importantly, SACD/DSD was a proven format that went nowhere and this is due to the one fact we as Audiophiles seem to forget we are a speck in consumer sales, so if 99.5% of buyers don't care about having a high-end system, and more so no disposable income due to family needs, education costs and so on, it's just not important when they can listen on portable devices, digital radio, XM/Sirus and of course cell phones, where buds and it's audio are good enough. They don't sit in front of 2 speakers any longer, it is not in their DNA. Audiophiles are a small hobbyist group who love music and building enjoyable systems, but today we see more and more marketing and cost directly related to the upper incomes on a whole and the reason is that is where sales are at. So high-end audio is killing itself slowly and as boomers pass on it will surely die from what it was in the past. It was a boomer-driven hobby, like hod-rods and racing cars and collecting albums and music.
