On Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:50:31 PM UTC-7, John Stone wrote:
On 7/25/13 2:32 PM, in article ,
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"Audio_Empire" wrote:
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Audio, as a hobby, is in decline because young people's tastes have
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changed and therefore no new blood is coming into the hobby. Youngsters=
,
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today don't actually care about listening to music any more. Nor do the=
y
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care about the quality of reproduction in the music that they DO hear.
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Music has become, to a large extent, a commodity among the young. The
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idea of sitting down and actually listening to music for the SOUND of
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music has become pass=E9.
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AND.....
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There IS a resurgence in vinyl. One would have to be really out of the
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loop to not have noticed it. There are more 'tables, arms and cartridge=
s
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on the market today than at any time since the advent of the CD (~1983)=
..
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And the people in this business MUST be selling this equipment to
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SOMEONE.
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Ok, how do you square these two statements of yours? You have to care eno=
ugh
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about listening to music to go through all the trouble of doing it with
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vinyl, right? Or are these new turntable buyers just "hipsters" that own
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these things because they're "cool", but use them when they want to show =
off
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to their hipster friends? Or maybe a bunch of us old farts are out buyin=
g
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their last turntables that they can bury with us? Whatever, it doesn't s=
eem
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to bode well for the market over the long term.
That is easy to square up. The audiophile community as a whole is eroding b=
ut within that community there has been substantial support and growth of h=
igh end vinyl playback. Hipsters are buying the cheap new turntables but ob=
viously audiophiles are the ones buying the megabuck gear that is still bei=
ng produced and still being bought. Actually when one looks at the vast arr=
ay of high end audio gear being made these days it's kinda hard to believe =
the market is really all that bad.