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In the Very Best Company
In virtually every area of consumer goods, including such diverse fields as fashion, motoring, furniture,
wine and spirits, there exists a revered top tier of luxury and excellence, a small, yet crucial, High End
segment populated by innovative leaders who march to the beat of a different drum with scant regard
for mundane concerns such as mass production or cost.
Their obsessive brief is always sublimely simple: To make their offerings the very best that they
can possibly be, for the discerning few who can afford and appreciate them.
With aspirational brands, premium quality, aesthetic design, exclusive materials, advanced
technologies and extravagant build quality are key elements that come together to create a rarefied
level of luxuriant performance, fit, feel and finish.
While many of the aspirational brands will be familiar to the majority of luxury consumers, there
are other activities and interests whose High End purveyors are known only to a limited group of
cognoscenti.
Audible Illusions
Curiously, High End domestic sound systems remain unexplored territory for many of even the most
affluent. This lack of enthusiasm has often been justified by products that could easily be dismissed,
because they were, rightfully, deemed to be unattractive or too complicated for casual users who
dwell in lovingly crafted and styled domestic environments.
Fortunately, the issue of complexity has been resolved with the emergence of comprehensive
home automation management systems with intuitive, customized user interfaces that simplify and
integrate access to the functionality of a home entertainment installation.
As for aesthetic considerations, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the music lover
with a critical, demanding eye can now have the final say in matters of styling and finish with unique,
personalized custom exteriors.
For those who perhaps live under the misconception that they are unable to distinguish finer
musical nuances as reproduced by the best systems available, the fact is that even the briefest
exposure will demonstrate how easy it is to appreciate the enhanced value of great music rendered by
true High End home entertainment equipment capable of creating a credible illusion of actually being
in the presence of the performers.
The fortunate few with the means to acquire the ultimate in-home entertainment owe it to
themselves to experience the soul-stirring difference.