For years, technology reigned utmos...

For years, technology reigned utmost in consumer electronics. Brands favorably wooed customers with new technical unfoldings and ever-increasing advances in performance. In the audio world, for example, the introduction of CD DVD increased power handling, lower distortion, and a variety of environ sound technologies drove sales and margins. And over and above in this race to give customers the newest, the best, the mostly advanced products, little thought or relate to was given to whether the technology was relevant to their lives.

Consumer easily found themselves making significant changes to their living spaces just to accommodate the racks of equipment they had