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You can buy almost anything on the net, but there will be stores forever. Why? because some people need to see, touch, and, in serious hi-fi, hear what they are buying. On the other hand Hi-fi shops are becoming obsolete for a different reason: the entire hobby (at least for now) is totally out of fashion, people put portability and ease of use over quality. Hi-fi is a lot of things interrelated (cables, tracking force, jitter, balanced ins and outs, class A, A-B,D amps and so on) that the new generations suddenly doesn´t want to know more about: teens and young people only want to know about gigabytes, hard disk, digital,USB, etc, and the net puts them in the middle of the action!