There is one advantage to being around forever; one gets a
sense of history. As each new technology has been developed,
there's always been a marketing frenzy to sell the exciting new
equipment before it actually sounds or looks better than the
technology that it is replacing. The first stereo LP records were
much noisier than their mono twins. It took many years for
transistor electronics to sound as good or better than the tube
designs they hoped to obsolete. The first CD's had horrible
highs and mids in spite of their low noise and bass potential,
when compared with LP records. In each case, it took small
companies dedicated to perfecting the performance of these
technologies that made each technology work musically.
Today, most people are listening to sound systems in their
homes that are less musical than what we were selling in the
audio salons of the '70's! The reason for this travesty to
listening is that video and computer sales have been mass-
market driven, and the audio portion of these systems has
been an afterthought. People were given low expectations,
with no opportunity to compare performance. It is so rare
today to go into a store and find a system that is set up to
perform well musically that SACD and DVD-Audio, two music
formats that are vastly superior to CD, both failed to make an
impression on the public.
With today's new Blu-ray players, we have an opportunity to
get state-of-the-art video and audio together. For the format
to be used on music, we need a Renaissance, where small
audio-video specialists again demonstrate quality to a new
generation of listeners that grew up on computer speakers
and home-theater-in a-box systems.
At Paul Squillo Music Systems, I will start by creating high-
performance virtual system packages that really can show
off the virtues of these new, promising technologies. If your
starter budget is small, I'll help you find pre-owned audio
classics that were musically far ahead of their time, at a price
you can afford.
I want you all to want great music and movies in your home,
and I have the expertise and perspective to create systems
that will amaze you all.