Why Don't More People Love Audio?


Can anyone explain why high end audio seems to be forever stuck as a cottage industry? Why do my rich friends who absolutely have to have the BEST of everything and wouldn't be caught dead without expensive clothes, watch, car, home, furniture etc. settle for cheap mass produced components stuck away in a closet somewhere? I can hardly afford to go out to dinner, but I wouldn't dream of spending any less on audio or music.
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In the early '80s I first saw the internet used for the first time. Being a professor soon I had the ability to use it to communicate with colleagues in other colleges. Then I got the ability to use dial up at home. Then one could buy a tiny music storage device with earbuds. Also coming along we computer games and cellphones.

Audio is relaxing, which is the last thing the present culture encourages. Swinfrey and Scott W, you both seem ill-adjusted to contemporary culture. I have been at reproducing music at home since the early 1960s. I know that my culture is now passe and soon will be the case for the baby boomers. I remember when television first came and when I first saw a football gave involving the Chicago Bears versus ? Football used to be less import than basketball and certain baseball.

Scott w, women have always been far less common among audiophiles. Presently I know one and over the years have known of perhaps twenty. I have always asked women audiophiles how they got involved. An audiophile father is often the reason.

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Different strokes for different folks.
No sense in getting offended or attempting to look down on others because they don't want to come to your party.
They are having their own parties and apparently it's working just fine for them.
Live and let live.
Probably they got tired, trying to find which is better, of the following, and gave up:
1. Tubes or Solid State
2. Digital or Analog
And maybe recently:
PCM or DSD
:-)))
EVERYBODY at the superbowl party commented on how much they enjoyed the halftime show with Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz, and that other woman. "That was terrific!" ... "Oooooo!" ... "Awesome!" ... Brought to us via POS speakers from somewhere inside the TV no less. I just rolled my eyes and staggered into the kitchen for more bean dip, my audiophile heart crushed to bits.
Tbg - your 'system' url leads to a thread on circuit boards. Details my man, they matter. Well, unless you have tenure of course, then nothing matters, right? Good gig if you can get it. Sidebar - I used to teach college statistics. I know the drill. Not my thing long term but good way to meet the ladies, if you make it interesting, which I did...indeed I did. Brought em over to jam to my Klipsch Heresy's, which are still kicking. Those things are indestructible.

Swinfrey - totally agree. Good to have an open mind w/music. I'm currently soaking up 5 newly arrived box sets: Mancini, Nat Cole, Keith Jarrett (Sun Bear concerts), JL Hooker, Howling Wolf. Also have Bill Evans on heavy rotation lately. Never listened to jazz until around 10 years ago, and now it's my fave genre.

Rockadanny - Sweet rig. I know Alex of WyWires, from shows. My rig is all his. Also have Audio Metallurgy ICs I sometimes swap in (but don't tell him that).