Business Insider | Apple has its eye on the lucrative high-end audio market (AAPL)

[NorthStar]

• http://markets.businessinsider.com/...ative-high-end-audio-market-2018-3-1018138155

 

[Folsom]

This is good. What it really means is they want to charge more for selling high res files. If they can charge into a new age of audiophilism, that would be amazing.

 

[ddk]

This is good. What it really means is they want to charge more for selling high res files. If they can charge into a new age of audiophilism, that would be amazing.

That’s how I read it too plus some redressed hardware. Tim Coock is no visionary don’t see him leading the way to a new anything.
david

 

[PeterA]

I found this line particularly interesting: "Fans of high-end audio are prepared to pay big bucks for the perfect setup." Aren't we always writing that "no system is perfect"? Just read MikeL's recent thread about different flavored amps. Very big bucks and not perfect in the sense that no single amp provides everything he wants.

I remember when Sony launched their new speakers. I heard them at a show driven by Pass amplifiers. That system sounded excellent, but there is not much discussion about Sony in High End Audio these days. What happened? I wonder if Apple will move beyond this small speaker and headphones and how they will demo their high end audio products in their stores. The acoustics in those places are terrible and they are always so crowded. It is an interesting idea though. Apple is a lifestyle brand with a specific ecosystem. Music reproduction is certainly a lifestyle for audiophiles, but somehow I don't really think the two are compatible.

 

[JackD201]

This is good. What it really means is they want to charge more for selling high res files. If they can charge into a new age of audiophilism, that would be amazing.

I'm a long time Apple user from the days Apple was actually cool. If they can be relevant to the creative fields like they were before all the money grabs without so much as consultations with users and their 3rd party developers then MAYBE they can get back to their roots and be cool again. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[jeff1225]

That’s how I read it too plus some redressed hardware. Tim Coock is no visionary don’t see him leading the way to a new anything.
david

+1

 

[Folsom]

I'm a long time Apple user from the days Apple was actually cool. If they can be relevant to the creative fields like they were before all the money grabs without so much as consultations with users and their 3rd party developers then MAYBE they can get back to their roots and be cool again. I'm not holding my breath.

This came out in 2008. I have to wonder if the retro memories actually are from a better time...

 

[Bso]

Amusing to read the gushing of the author of the "tech" piece explaining how Apple incorporated the arcane, breakthrough Fletcher-Munson curve in the internal amp to linearize the frequency response of the speakers. Guess Accuphase wasn't so wrong in keeping it all these years.

"Hey Siri, what is a "loudness control?"