Trickle Down

So I saw another sign of the improvement of every-day home audio (or the apocalypse depending on how you look at it) today while I was helping my mother pick out a new HDTV at Best Buy. There was a shelf system there that had ribbon tweeters. For $200. I did not have a chance to listen to it, and in the noisy store I am not sure it would have done it any justice anyway, but the mere fact that one can get a technology like a ribbon tweeter in a basic shelf system makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.