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Another old guy...

Posted by EdAInWestOC (A) on August 21, 2020 at 06:40:03

In Reply to: Old Guy - Turntable Experience posted by creativepart on August 10, 2020 at 16:12:30:

I am 3 years shy of 70 but I understand your post. I first saw the interest of young people in our hobby when they started to show up at my favorite used LP store.

They were very young and digging through old LPs as if they were discovering trinkets buried for centuries in the Egyptian desert. It felt good seeing young people interested in vinyl.

If I had one wish it would be to have them stop using the term "vinyls". I do not know why it bothers me but it does bother me to the point I just stop listening for a little while.

Other than that little thing I think young people's interest in our hobby is one of the best things to have happened to it in decades. Without their interest vinyl playback will die with all of us old people.

My three kids think vinyl playback is interesting and kind of cool but they are too lazy to take part in the hobby. They grew up with digital streaming and think that is the way it ought to be.

My kids can hear the difference between MP3s played on cheap earbuds and vinyl played on a quality rig. The problem is they do not know how to listen to music as a foreground activity. Their idea of listening is always coupled to another activity.

All three grew up with my habit of music listening sessions on weekends but they have yet to dedicate any time to listening. I believe if we ever find a way to convince them to sit down and just listen, the sound quality thing will take care of itself.

If they sit down and dedicate time to enjoying music they will demand sound quality and everything else will follow.

I hope the young generation will discover music listening as an activity itself. I have a friend who owns a high end music store and he relocated it to a college town as part of his marketing plan.

So far he has won over some young people. The ones who have sat down to listen to his demo systems see the advantages but the cost is a preventative element to finding new converts.

All the same he has sold some college students on lower cost systems and started them down the path to our crazy hobby. He leads them in by placing the used LPs out front in his store and the demo rooms are in the rear.

There is a decent quality system playing in the used LP section of the store. It has pulled in the curious and led to new converts.

Ed
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof

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