Any Young Audiophiles Out There?

Long time ago market was oriented toward older people and everybody wanted to be older (you wouldn't name car company Oldsmobile today). Today teenagers and children drive marked and they don't buy LP or SACD. It's great that in age of 20 you can already appreciate finer things in life (it took me much longer) but you must be exception, I guess.

Macd - Greater demand maybe, but there will be much greater demand for 3D music/video players for 8 years old. I think that it is a general trend toward younger and younger generations. Just look how it has already changed. 10 year old girl said "I'm having manicure/pedicure at least once a month" (mother pays). Her mother had first manicure in age of 40. 100 years ago (or more) children were standing against the wall while parents were eating dinner, waiting for their turn. I'm not judging (and I think it was pretty bad) but just want to show the trend. Today children are demanding very expensive tickets for Jonas Brothers and Milly Cyrus concerts while I had (many years ago) to ask parents for permission to go (ticket bought from allowance money). My friend had very conservative father who ordered him to wear slacks because jeans are too revealing.

Unfortunately, as I said before, children don't buy LP and SACD.

What amazes me is that average people are willing to spend a lot of money for the picture (HDTV) but not for the sound. Why?

Tan43 - don't get depressed. Not the young people only - my late relative was big music fan thru all his life and had hundreds of LPs but did not care at all about sound quality. He had very old, inexpensive integrated LP/amp but It could be as well small transistor radio, I suspect. There are just some people who do not care. I cannot understand how one can appreciate orchestral works with many instruments "missing".

2muse - good advise. Do you think hearing can be improved or exercised (or diet). I'm OK now but I'd like to keep it that way. I found once info about book by ophthalmologist who claims that eyeside can be improved by training eye muscles and gives exercises for that. His name is dr. Bates. You can probably find this book on Amazon.