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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.
tuckermorleyfca6
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geoffkait
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Let me get this straight. We don't really know what High End Audio is exactly, it depends on who you talk to. And we don't really have any idea how many people are on High End Audio. Well, we know it might be about 100 or it might be more, a whole lot more. And now were worried about the prices to get into this High End Audio having to come down so every Tom Dik and Harry can get in? I'm not sure I like the sound of that.
tbg
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Geoffkait, with 42% of all wealth concentrated in 1% of the top wealthy, they are the ones with discretionary money to buy equipment. I am not worried about the need for prices to be reduced, I am worried about the impact of the loss of the middle-class. There is not much reason for them to support government.
schubert
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They will have the same reason they have had for a century,the greatest brainwashing mechanism planet earth has ever seen, US K-12 .
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swampwalker
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now were worried about the prices to get into this High End Audio having to come down so every Tom Dik and Harry can get in? I'm not sure I like the sound of that.)
Hmmm, wonder if that has anything has to do with the fact that you're one of those who sells high end audio?
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geoffkait
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Hmmmm, speaking of statistics, one wonders how many of the super rich are audiophiles. My guess is about 0.5%.
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