EDITOR’s CHAIR

Technological progress moves forward at light speed, profiting audio houses and their componentry with skills and abilities not available less than a decade ago. And the resultant pricing puts ‘Summit HiFi’ in the hands of those who would not have been able to afford it half a decade ago.

And music, as I have often written about across these pages, is ubiquitous—available every moment of everyday are, and literally, millions of albums for the listening. This for the lovers of music is, indeed, paradise and a time like no other.

The culmination of just these two events alone, poise the audio world with great promise and potential. Yet in order to fully realize this, the collective ‘audio houses’—manufacturers, distributors, retailers, agents, etc.—must seek to broaden that audio universe by bringing in a host of new audiophiles and music lovers, as the current ‘choir’ grays and shrinks away.

We, AKRMedia, see this as our preeminent goal, which is why we do the things we do. Art, aesthetics, accessible articles bereft, to a large degree, of ‘tech speech,’ replaced with analogy, metaphor, humor, when possible, as well as direct outreach to much broader and curious populations. We want them to step in, sample the wares of our audio partners, purchase their wares, build audio systems which will allow them to not just listen but to travel to worlds of audio that they scarce knew existed (the electrostatic world for one!).

And yet, it is a collective effort. Shall we then, my audio brethren and audio houses large and small, engage to grow and bring new life to this industry—audio—that we know and love so very well.

Sincerely,

K.E. Heartsong Editor-in-Chief