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In Reply to: RE: Has High Performance audio in the home become an OLD MAN'S game! posted by Potrzebie on September 19, 2014 at 20:38:45
"This site is dominated by the 'over 50 AARP' crowd."
We were fortunate to be exposed to music that made us want to enjoy it with highest fidelity possible.....
"Where are the 30's and 40's audiophiles of today?"
The popular music of recent time hasn't driven a passion amongst them to reproduce it with the highest fidelity possible. The digitization, the processing, the dynamic compression, the Auto-Tune, the prefabrication, the lack of artistic refinement.....
Heck, most of us older audiophiles aren't interested in the music because it's just plain boring...... Listening to Justin Bieber or Rihanna on a high-end audio system would be like watching Sponge Bob cartoons or Barney the Dinosaur on a high-end home theater.
"Certainly there are many people in that age group that can afford even the middle of the range audio setup, at today's prices."
But the music they're into doesn't generate an interest amongst them to reproduce it with better fidelity...... It all starts with the music.
"There is good music for these generations to enjoy at home."
True, but not what the mainstream media has been spoon-feeding them. The media hides alternative music from the masses, and many don't even realize such music exists.
"Why is good audio dead for this group?"
As stated above, the music they're mainly exposed to doesn't drive them to enjoy it with better fidelity.
The key to generating interest in high-end sound reproduction amongst the young masses is to simply let them know there is more to today's music than Lady Gaga, Pit Bull, Nickelback, and Three Doors Down. If younger people then strive to find new music outside what the mainstream media serves to them, only then will they be likely to develop a passion to enjoy their music with better sound reproduction.
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This could be as much about content fueled passion which is lacking. For me as a 50 something... there are too many things competing with "time in the listening chair". I have displaced other entertainment to maintain the time for intense passion filled musical interest... (and vehicular pursuits;)
For many music is a backdrop, for me (quality music reproduction is) more of a focal point, not simply a background.
But then again for me, I am not simply content to own and experience music through great gear, I have been modifying and building gear for over 30 years, elements of my interest go down all the way to the power cord and electrons flow through it...
Dead on.. I'm 33 and just starting to delve into the world of hi-fi and vinyl. The mainstream music out there for my generation took a nose dive when I was still a kid. The records I've started piling up either date back a few decades or are of an indie/punk rock taste. I think the latter scene is the reason that anyone my age finds themselves interested in vinyl.. and therefore home audio and hi-fi. It's a scene that really clung to the romance of vinyl and the joy of collecting it. Most of us never owned our own as we grew up with cassettes and then cds, before the digital age.
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