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Path: sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!news.ans.net!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!wupost!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!regent!monu1.cc.monash.edu.au!monu6!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!scott From: scott@psy.uwa.oz.au (Scott Fisher) Newsgroups: aus.hi-fi Subject: Re: American, Australian and European Hi-Fi tastes... Date: 16 Nov 1992 05:27:33 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Lines: 51 Distribution: aus Message-ID: <1e7bg5INNdnp@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> References: <1dvg0kINNn4f@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Nov16.025416.3898@mel.dit.csiro.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green (+61 6 276 6813)) writes: [me deleted...] >Heres a bit more petrol to the fire. >Americans also seem to go heavily for 'digital' EVERTHING. If it ain't >digital it ain't worth a f!*?. >Europeans on the other hand still value analog in the main. CD's are an >accepted fate but there 'almost' if you use the analog audio out. >Australians - who knows. Most "hi-fi" stores seem to stock a lot of >European stuff - and so push that line. >While on the subject - What about AV amplifiers and associated bits. Purist >hi-fi retailers wouldn't be seen dead selling any A/V gear. Sure, the low end >stuff is a bit crappy, but the same can be said for audio stuff. I think they >get this idea from European mags that wont spoil themselves by even letting >AV products get advertised in them! Interestingly my local "Audiophile" shop "Vince Ross" (Infact Perth's largest and most succesful audiophile store) It really is one of the best audiophile shops I have been in. Have recently started to stock....(gulp [for them])... Yamaha AV products. Before that the closest they came was their "Lowe" TV/Vidio distributorship. The guys there said that they recognsise there is money in the AV market and they found Yamaha to be of sufficient quality to push out their sacred doors. >Americans and the other hand are tripping over themselves to get into the AV >scene. ...yeah the Americans have been known to trip over themselves to buy cars with fake-wood-stick-on-pannels on the outside too. PS: My hi-fi is connected to my hi-fi video...but...stereo is about my limit when watching TV...no sub-woofers, no surround-sound, just a stereo-vid, pre/power amps and 2 speakers :-) Regards Scott. _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth [32S, 116E]--> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v Joy is a Jaguar XJ-6 with a flat battery, a blown oil seal and an unsympathetic wife, 9km outside of a small remote town, 3:15am on a cold wet winters morning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------