REWIRE YOURSELF
I don’t know if you’ve stopped to look in the window of your local stereo electronics store recently or taken the time to browse among the display counters, but if you haven’t you’ve missed out on the fact that a remarkable change has taken place in what used to be called “the state of the art.”
MODERN SYSTEM SOUND
REWIRE YOURSELF
Richard Robinson
I don’t know if you’ve stopped to look in the window of your local stereo electronics store recently or taken the time to browse among the display counters, but if you haven’t you’ve missed out on the fact that a remarkable change has taken place in what used to be called “the state of the art.” In fact, sound electronics have achieved staggering levels of sophistication, and simultaneously the cost of this often brilliant technology is literally half of what the “state of the art” was ten, even five, years ago.
No matter how you choose to listen to your music—record, cassette, FM stereo broadcast—the modern sound systems provide better sound, with more user control, than any of the innovations of ’60s and ’70s electronics. In part, this is because of the research and development of the “state of the art” over the past two decades; in part it’s because “the state of the art” has been reached, Overshot, forgotten, and electronics manufacturers have relaxed, producing components that now deliver more than they promise.