Why Don't More People Love Audio?

Some of us may be forgetting the unemployment and underemployment statistics that young people are facing. Maybe you are unaware of the insidious student loan trap too many of our youth have fallen into. Perhaps it has escaped your attention that wage erosion cripples the prospects for our recent college graduates.

Sit down and do the math. How does it look for kids trying to plant their flag somewhere on $40K per year? Times have changed. For those few who can't help themselves it may be possible to scrape together some of our leavings into a semblance of high end, but most won't even try. Buying a house and/or feeding their kids will crowd audio out of their thinking if, in fact, it ever gains entry.

why is there seemingly so much concern regarding a person's attitude about a hobby ?

such a concern seems like a trivial pursuit to me.

i think some people are taking the subject "audio" to seriously. it is just a hobby, competing with many other hobbies.

hopefully we define ourselves by our character not by our hobbies.

chill out guys. it's no big deal whether people are or are not audiophiles, or like or do not like music.

the fact that there have been been three hundred + posts is puzzling to me, as my philosophy in life is that of the golden mean.

Macrojack, interesting POV's. I agree that, given your situation, why should you believe in God? A thought occurred to me recently though that you HAVE to being following SOMETHING. So if you aren't following God, then you are following something else. I wonder what it is?

"For those few who can't help themselves it may be possible to scrape together some of our leavings into a (MY suggestion for a) semblance of high end, but most won't even try."

Too bad hi-end can't be made simpler. It's easy to download MP3 crap online but high resolution files are hard to come by and even if you find them you have to worry about jitter, high frequency rubbish...... it gets real complicated real quick. Pity.

Tennis, I think you are referring to the "Golden Rule" (part of a moral/ethical belief system) . . Right?

The Golden Mean, or Golden Section as it's sometimes called, refers to a two-dimensional construct (a specific angle) which is derived using geometric principles.
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