«40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!»

@smodking1 - My thoughts are that manufacturers of products that appeal to a tiny niche, which is what audiophile gear is in the grand scheme of things, would be wasting incredible amounts of money advertising in high-profile, general purpose magazines like People or Sports Illustrated, and ads in those publications dwarf the price of ads in niche high-fi publications. 

The audiophiles may soon be a thing of the past.How many of you know of anyone in their teens,or twentys,with a stereo system?If the music isn't on their phone,they are not interested.

(...pardon, spouse is blasting KCRW.....asked to drill for this...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQG5zN8QOAs 

If we must go...which is pretty much the name of the game....

Go Out Loud or don't go at all.

Good luck with the latter... ;)

Of all the people I know, work  family and friends I'm the only one into hifi and collecting physical media. 

I have a few theories why more youths haven't taken on this Hobbie. 1) it's wildly overpriced 2) whenever people talk about quality recordings its always some out dated music pre 80s (which I find many modern albums today have excellent pressing/recordings) 3) the majority of people actively partaking in hifi are older men 4) understanding a main point of hifi is to get as close to real music as possible yet most youth of today do not play and instrument so they can't appreciate the chase of accurately reproducing music 5) streamers are not engaging,  only interests I see from younger generations is in turntables so as the market pushes more streamers and even solid state equipment we risk losing them to their phones and a single  Bluetooth speaker. Anyways that's what I see happening. Unless the hobby turns its attention to invite the youth this will remain a very niche group and many companies will go under from lack of sales in tbe near future.