In Reply to: What's keeping more people from becoming audiophiles? posted by scruffy_ on August 8, 2012 at 23:51:57:
To the degree where the masses don't get much of an opportunity to experience and appreciate high-fidelity audio playback.What got us into high-end audio in the past was hearing familiar music that sounded demonstrably lifelike compared to what we were used to hearing before. This is what inspired us to strive for high quality sound reproduction into our homes.
But the environment for such experience to occur has been absent in recent time.
Over the past two decades, the overprocessing in popular music, combined with lack of exposure in alternative music, has stifled any chances of such aural epiphany occurring with people today.
The lack of high-quality playback in recent consumer audio has compounded this problem.
In fact, the lack of exposure to naturally-produced music (in relative terms) and its playback has gotten to the point where many people don't even understand the mere concept of high-fidelity playback. (Even older non-audiophiles have understood the concept.) This is what's really sad, in my humble opinion.
In order to get one interested in high-end audio, he/she first must have an interest in alternative music, in which artistic nuance and capturing it in high-fidelity playback can be appreciated.
Edits: 08/09/12
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