YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics.

Audiophile audio dying out will be one of the lesser problems future generations will have to deal with.

It’d be nice if the kids enjoyed music like we do, but they don’t. One thing we can do is try to get our music collections into the hands of someone younger who does like to sit and listen to music rather than having it hauled to the dump when our time is up.

Audiophile audio dying out will be one of the lesser problems future generations will have to deal with.

very true. We made such a mess, it will take a lot of geniuses to fix it. 

You're absolutely right!!!  High end audio, audiophiles, those of us ages approx. 45-85, and the overall high end audio industry are, in fact, a dying bread.  There's a couple of principle factors, IMHO, that are contributing to the decline.  #1-The music.  The decline of todays music industry as a whole (the decline of the quality of the music).  When Baby Boomers and Generation X were coming along during the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's, the music industry was on a whole other level than what it is today.  Listening to your favorite brand of music back in those days was more like a religious experience, which inspire the young to purchase full blown starter audio systems.  And those young music lovers later became high end audio purchasers as they grew older and more successful and were able to afford it.  The dichotomy between the young (who are the future of high end audio) and how contemporary music inspires them, and also how todays music inspires them to evolve into high end audiophiles, has been on the declining for over 30 years.  #2- The high end audio industry:  Well, I guess the principles of cause and effect have cornered and forced the high end audio industry to pretty much abandon the young, who seem to have very little interest in high end audio, who primarily listen to their music via streaming it through cheap headphones.  In facing todays reality regarding the high end, the high end audio industry recognizes that the future of the high end audio industry as a whole is in jeopardy, and have now decided to market their wares almost exclusively to us old, grey haired, senior citizen audiophiles who still love our good old turn tables, reel to reel players and CD players, which represent our heyday, and how things were when we were young.  To the young, all the old mediums are merely old relics of the past that are from a bygone era.  The high end audio industry makes no effort to capture the imagination of the young and has become somewhat of an excusive club for the more well heeled, middle aged and beyond audiophile who're willing to spend 50K, Lol, on a turn table, or 250K on a pair of speakers.  No, the young, the future of high end audio, aren't interested.  In any event, honestly, although, nowadays, I stream exclusively, I wish that all the old mediums from the past: CD, reel to reel, cassette, turn tables, and even 8 track, would make a huge comeback, and would also somehow start to resonate with the young on a much higher level, just to see the high end audio industry return to it's former glory!!!!  Happy listening.   

This demographic probably has not changed in 75 years. Just a fact that all the old farts have the time and money for this pursuit. A young man ain’t got nothing in the world these days. 

@tkrtrb125 

This demographic probably has not changed in 75 years. Just a fact that all the old farts have the time and money for this pursuit. A young man ain’t got nothing in the world these days. 

Amen to that..