mlsstl wrote: > 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 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. > > ;-)
The sad thing is that it is the same fellow ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 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
