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


Interesting video of Jay's audio lab reflections about the audiophile world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM2E6MxkJiY

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So, he should be courting Viagra and Depends as advertisers on his website.  We should think of products and services to target older males who make up almost all of the serious audiophile world--I think high end hearing aids is an example.

He is wrong about a few things.

The 'bullsh' 'cheap' headphones actually sound pretty good these days. I am shocked by what I hear from a cheap pair of  hifiman headphones these days.

My area has lots of 'younger' hometheater dudes, diy'ing their subwoofers, room treatments and all that... very enthusiastic crowd,  the energy's all there....and guess what? Their stuff sounds pretty good, quite entertaining and it works for the different things they like to do, watching movies, listening to 'young people' music, playing 'call of duty', etc.

Why would they want to deal with some monster one trick pony hifi rig that doesn't even sound all that good...

It's a cultural shift. Hifi 'purism' killed it all, imo.... Deal with it.

On the bright side, once we are gone, we won’t care about such things anymore and those still around will have one less group around to tell them what they should do and how to do it.

So cheer up folks!

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