While technology has certainly made audio and the hi-fi industry come of age, what with hi-fi speakers, turntables, in car entertainment, clock radios and turners, ruling the roost everywhere one sees, it is also true that it is basically a downloading age and times that we are living in.
Mr Dominic Dawes, Editor of the What Hi-fi Sound and Vision magazine only reconfirms this view. According to him, we are slowly but surely moving towards an age where more and more into a world dominated by downloading. This implies the emergence of the scenario where more and more brands will enter the audio segment. Names like Logitech, Sonos who are all more associated with technology than hi-fi docking systems manufacturing items such as
buy cheap hi-fi speakers, turntables, in car entertainment, clock radios , turners, etc. This would also mean very soon we will have high quality audio and hi-fi systems and equipment priced very competitively and available in more variety and styles than ever before.
Taking this further, we are not far away from the day when a good number of people will insist on having
hi-fi speakers and other equipment in every room or corner of their residence. Here, we are talking about a stage when it will be very much possible to have all your media stored somewhere in one unit and then stream it through your entire house.
Quality wireless transmission of sound is the next big step in this transition. Players like Kleer are already started producing what are pretty good wireless sound transmission devices.
Arcam, the audio and hi-fi systems major is all set to releasinto the market place, the rCube that is effectively portable iPod music system and audio richness that is untouched as yet. It is priced rather lowly at 500.
