amey01 wrote: > People have been saying this for as long as audiophilia has been a > hobby! > > Fact is, audiopilia is not a popular hobby for the young, for many > reasons: > > * They don't have the disposable income required; > * Engaging with music is hard with a young family and kids around; > * They have other priorities; > * They are not as patient; > * etc > > As people grow old, people appreciate music more, have more disposable > income, and have the disposable time to sit down and listen. Quite > simple really.
I disagree with some of your points and agree only tepidly with others. The 1960s were probably the golden age of hi-fi. The 1950s were still heavily DIY and by the 1970s things had started dividing into mass market vs an increasing trend toward super pricey stuff (the Sequerra tuner came out in the mid-70s, priced at a then-unheard of price of over $3,000.) But in the 60s, any young up & coming sophisticated young man had to have a nice hi-fi system, and for the most part one could put together a very respectable system on a young professional's income. One can leaf through the Playboy and Esquire magazines of that period, or watch how movies & TV presented trendy young men, and get a pretty good idea that good hi-fi systems were hot stuff. I don't think things are any more complicated than the attention span of modern young trend setters is simply pointed in a different direction these days. Of course, it didn't help that the high-end segment of the audio hobby devolved into a super high priced, obscure chase for wires, tweaks and generally strange things that make no sense to the majority of the populace. The mental image of an audiophile in the 1960s was a handsome young fellow in his smoking jacket, holding his pipe while pulling out a hot jazz album to put on the turntable to impress the beautiful young lass sitting on the sofa nursing a highball. What's the mental picture of an audiophile in 2012? An aging, paunchy fellow, sitting all by himself, wondering which set of magic cables will expand the "soundstage" of the 10th remaster of a multi-miked and overprocessed classic rock album by 6 inches. And one wonders why the hobby doesn't have much appeal for the young trendy types these days. The world has simply moved on. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94485 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
