"SC Dxing" wrote in message
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I have to disagree in a polite way. If the market was large, more
brick & mortar retailers would carry the higher end receivers. It's a
niche market at best. Even the Grundig G5, G6, 350 are only carried at
Radio Shack. Nothing above that.

Let's face it. Radio is ancient technology. People barely even buy
AM/FM radios these days. If they listen to radio at all it is in a car,
and then only because the car has no MP3 player connection. Any other
time/place everyone listens to an MP3 player.

Best Buy, Circuit City etc. sell "high tech" stuff. Computers, digital
audio, digital TVs, digital cameras. See a pattern here? Radio is not a
player in this market. People are spoiled by digital music - even FM
sounds bad to them. AM sounds terrible and SW is just a joke.

There is clearly still a world wide market for radios, but in the U. S. it
is all but over. The digital/HD/IBOC stuff was a last-ditch attempt to
modernize radio. It is failing because it is too late, not for any
technical reasons. No one is listening any longer.

I fully expect that in 10 years, commerical AM radio will be completely
gone. FM will have the local news/talk/weather/traffic (it already does
here) as well as some music hold outs - country, oldies and other formats
where the listener is less likely to have computers and MP3 players and
therefore still listens to radio. The car radio will transform into an amp
and speakers for the MP3 player.