How large (or small) is the audiophile market?

A real audiophile  test soundtrack (no electronic spatial effects here only voices and instruments ):

If you can differentiate after purchasing this album, between the singers and see when they walk around you and in your room and see their head turning when singing and if they comes near your right or left ears singing or speaking, your system/room is good... If not, dont upgrade your gear pieces, dac, amp or speakers, learn acoustics experriment and use it before upgrading...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR33bL5aNTk&list=PLnQJF3Qi_4_CvjtOvZypmfmC4ygxSxOgm&index=46

It was my test album in my  acoustic dedicated room.

In non audiophile system/room the singers are in front of you on a plane or worst between speakers, not around you in 3-d in the room.

I don't quite understand why the people here blaming AI generated information being faulty.  All the 'AI' information provided by @cdc have proper sources.  The only exception is for "Hi-Fi Audiophile Headphones" but here is the source for it "Impactful Marketing Research Co. on May 15, 2025."

It’s even more amazing that people blaming put out their own unfounded judgments, seemingly believing their information is more reliable than market research. Where is your justification, people?

@deep_333  you do realize that the only reason most young people have a large playlist is because they don't have to pay for it, they actually expect it to be free.

@lanx0003 I don’t blame AI "personally". AI reads what’s out there and summarizes it, but can’t properly recognize groups and concepts. Are the sources useless? Well, I looked at them and they seem to be, for the most part. 

AI put out categories in a list such as Home High End Audio and Premium Audio as two distinct categories and it did the same with headphones.
These are interchangeable and overlapping terms used by two independent sources but also apples and oranges as one also includes car audio? Once it can’t figure out what "audiophile" is, it totally goes off the rails with numbers about 10 times of the actual size of the market. It pulls data from an article that lists 

Panasonic (Japan)
Soni (Japan)
Clarion (Japan)
KEF (U.K.)
Volkswagen (Germany)
Rockford (U.S.)
Acura (U.S.)
Bowers & Wilkins (U.K.)
Pioneer (Japan)
Bose (U.S.)
Dynaudio International (Denmark)

as premium audio. Only 3 of the 11 companies have any relationship with audiophile stuff. Totally misleading. I could go and on on what’s wrong with the AI answer. The audiophile market is defined by what audiophiles consider what it is. An obvious joke is Bose, it’s huge but it’s not audiophile, so let’s not add their revenue to the sum. 

Again, AI can read but it can’t judge. Yet.

I should add that the businessresearchinsights seems to have been written by AI. It is, every single word - a useless word salad. I feel stupider after reading it. 

With appropriate source i can put any non sense out...

A.I. is not a source of information  we can trust blindly  because it is "sourced"...

We must think because between the wiki or A.I. definition of what "timbre" is for example  and the real acoustics problems related to "timbre", there is an abyss...

 Now listen what Sabine Hossenfelder say about A.I. and science research and "sources". :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVkCfn6kSqE

It is quite evident the average dude will idolize A.I. as arbiter of truth and quote it for any discussion as definitive truth ...

I don’t quite understand why the people here blaming AI generated information being faulty.  All the ’AI’ information provided by @cdc have proper sources.