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

If I survive my wife the gear and musical library is willed to Keith Richards when I go.

DeKay

There's simply no point in getting all worked up over this stuff as it relates to others. It's hard to say how things will develop for the younger generations as on the whole they are inundated with the digital onslaught that began with the personal computer.  When "we" were that age what did we have to occupy ourselves?  That's how we got into music, that's what we had.  No video games, no streaming, no widescreen tv....that's a lot of distraction. They are also not really into quality music, as my bass-playing son mentioned to me. He said the interest in playing a real musical instrument is waning fast to be replaced by electronic stuff. It's just easier.  Also, note the difference in the music of decades past as compared to now. Not to say there isn't good music out there, but finding it is kind of like finding good audio. The culture and the inventiveness is just so different now. One never knows, though. I bought a grand piano when I was 30 that none of my four sons touched. Suddenly my 45 year old son began teaching himself on a Yamaha keyboard, and is sending back to his mom to get the piano shipped to him on the Big Island. His "stereo", however is still just a wireless speaker that mainly plays classical.  For me, I'm just going to enjoy my fancy new system and let the chips fall.

It's worse than you think.  100% of all audiophiles are highly likely  to die over the course of their life.

True.  Just don't die and problem solved.

I grew up with AM radio listening to pop hits, and jazz. I was never bored. Many in my generation played instruments, studied music in school, marched in parades while playing our instruments.

Personally, I played in the school band. Brought my trumpet home each day and practiced it in the garage. I excelled at sports, and played every one of them Growing up there were always baseball games to play in, or we’d go to the school to play on the basketball court. We were physically active, and fit as a result

Kids today experience technology overload. They’re not interested in learning to play an instrument. They’d rather play a video game. I think PONG came out in 1972, and you had to visit an arcade simply to drop in a quarter to play it for 5 minutes.

Heck, how many before us didn’t even have television?! And they turned out just fine. And they weren’t bored.

Easy fix. Turn off the distractions. And discover a whole new world. Take an hour hike. Lift some weights. Ride a bike. There’s so many alternative activities to do it’s ridiculous. Or, remain a slave to your iPhone. It’s all a choice.