Any Young Audiophiles Out There?

Macd - Greater demand maybe, but there will be much greater demand for 3D music/video players for 8 years old. I think that it is a general trend toward younger and younger generations. Just look how it has already changed. 10 year old girl said "I'm having manicure/pedicure at least once a month" (mother pays). Her mother had first manicure in age of 40. 100 years ago (or more) children were standing against the wall while parents were eating dinner, waiting for their turn. I'm not judging (and I think it was pretty bad) but just want to show the trend. Today children are demanding very expensive tickets for Jonas Brothers and Milly Cyrus concerts while I had (many years ago) to ask parents for permission to go (ticket bought from allowance money). My friend had very conservative father who ordered him to wear slacks because jeans are too revealing.

Unfortunately, as I said before, children don't buy LP and SACD.

What amazes me is that average people are willing to spend a lot of money for the picture (HDTV) but not for the sound. Why?

I have invited young folks to come up to my room and listen
to what I consider high end. The problem I found was that they would not sit down long enough to compare the sound.
They were impressed with the way the equipment looked and liked the room,but had better things to do.
Nobody wants to just sit and seriously listen to music.
With their I-pod, just as with their cell phone, they can stay on the go.

Tan43 - don't get depressed. Not the young people only - my late relative was big music fan thru all his life and had hundreds of LPs but did not care at all about sound quality. He had very old, inexpensive integrated LP/amp but It could be as well small transistor radio, I suspect. There are just some people who do not care. I cannot understand how one can appreciate orchestral works with many instruments "missing".

well, i'm 31 now, but i've been into the hobby for several years. i was probably in my mid to late 20s before i got into it.

For a young "audiophile", an Ipod or mp3 player with decent earphones is the most practical and affordable first system.

I loved music and audio as a kid in a blue collar US household but did not have my first "good" system until I was 18 or so.

So in a sense there are more young potential audiophiles running around out there today at a younger age with halfway decent sound, so in a sense kids today may in fact be ahead of the curve compared to past generations in terms of # kids equipped with decent sounding music at younger ages.

Anything is possible from there.

All peoples both young and old enjoy music though....that will never change.

So maybe there is hope FWIM.....