Why Don't More People Love Audio?

I visited the family of one of my daughter's friends to pick her up after playtime. Stone walls inside the house, multiple large fireplaces including bedrooms and kitchen, home theater resembling a small, luxury commercial venue. Dad, correctly and to his credit, first asked me if I'd like a beer. I answered in the obviously affirmative. He led me to a bar refrigerator stocked with cases of... Bud Light, Miller Lite, or Coors Light. Cavernous wine cellar empty. You tell me...

why is there such a concern with the thoughts and opinions of other people ? if you have an interest in something and someone else doesn't, why obsess about it ?

The concern, Mrtennis, is that high fidelity audio has become such a niche market that people are settling for sub-standard MP3 quality. Ergo, the CD market is dying and high fidelity will surely die along with it. Eventually no new music will be released on CD. Even engineering techniques have taken a turn for the worse. Check out "The Death of High Fidelity" in Rolling Stone's 2007 Yearbook issue.

if it is like the weather, then discussing it won't change anything. in that case, be concerned, but you can't change what you can't change.

if you think something will change, what will change and how will it change ?

no one can be coerced into appreciating something if it is not important to that person. audio is important to a minority of minorities.