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The percentage you're paying is too high pricedWhile you're living beyond all your meansAnd the man in the suit has just bought a new carFrom the profit he's made on your dreams Read more: Traffic - The Low Spark Of High-heeled Boys Lyrics | MetroLyrics From the traffic on this site, where a majority of members are not supportive of MQA technology, one must come to the conclusion that the future for our small dissident group of music lovers is bleak. Physical media is in decline and streaming, at various levels of quality, will become the media of choice. Classical audiophiles will become, like WW2, veterans ghost-like beings, attending "reunions" at RMAF in smaller and smaller numbers until the last audiophile is celebrated at his death in 2047. Is there hope for high quality recording? Will our digital overlords take total control of the music chain from recording to consumption through some DRM rich version of MQA? Will a counter revolution come forth to save music? I think the answer is yes. The solution likes with our children. The same hipsters and headphone devotees who we sometimes mock because they don't care about 125 pound amplifiers and $65000 speakers may yet save music. Imagine a future where streaming, DRM and MQA reign. What force will emerge to combat such total, authoritarian control? The answer is in our history: Samizdat, the clandestine copying and distribution of media banned by the state. We (they) have the tools, millions of LPs and CDs, yes even tape exist. When our dark future emerges how simple it will be to copy, post or otherwise distribute high quality, DRM, MQA free music from dissident to dissident without the oversight of "the man in the suit". Oh they will fight back. Blank CDs, virgin tape, thumb drives, all will be outlawed, and the revolutionaries will be reduced to copying files on to old Xray film, but yet music will survive, information wants to be free. So take heart not all is lost.