How large (or small) is the audiophile market?

You don’t believe Pioneer/TAD is audiophile enough, eh?

Well...Forget TAD and their six figure speakers... i have some relatively higher end PA from regular ol’ Pioneer that can smoke the daylights out of most apparently "high end" rigs (sonically). In fact, that’s the only rig on wheels i’d be happy to bring to a audiophiliac phallus measurement contest like axpona....., just to confuse everyone.

I could be wrong but I don’t think is would be going to Volkswagen, Bose, pioneer, or Acura for my audio system. If you looked at the article, they claimed high end was for music, movies and gaming.

There’s a guy nearby where i live with the full KEF Reference system for his multichannel gaming, music, etc whatever that sounded rather immaculate to my ears. Let’s see, that’s around 25k for the front left/right speakers alone. Again, some apparently lowly hometheater working stiff ended up with something that killed so many ’experienced’ audiophiles around here sonically. So, never say never, i suppose...they may work up to it.

On the same note, no one’s all that interested in that godforsakenly ugly incoherent naked Chronosonic emperor. Feel free to hang on to it by yourself. At least, the Magico equivalent had some other merits.

I’m not sure but I don’t think I would find a pair of $800k Wilson’s for a gaming system.

Here’s some of your answer...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pRdcXfldd-k

I do not follow the mid tier equipment market but I do have an interest in the “high end” gear.  The “tell” for me is whether the big money investors such as venture funds have moved into the market and are consolidating the small retailers.  There is no evidence they are.

KEF (U.K.)
Rockford (U.S.)
Bowers & Wilkins (U.K.)
Pioneer (Japan)
Dynaudio International (Denmark)

These are top end audio companies who can compete with anyone.

BTW - to see where audio market is going head over to Head-fi. The fact that the RAAL 1995 Immanis ($10K headphones) are lusted after gear on Head-Fi tells me that cohort cares deeply about audio quality in an OCD way. When that younger cohort moves up in their careers and housing, I think they buy other audio gear.

One big difference is that music (and audio reproduction) is no longer a central part of societies interest. This 70's audio joke would not register with today's younger generation (has me in stiches every time).
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Just for comparison - Rolex are reputed to make about a million watches a year and to hold 30 percent of the luxury watch market - so market size, about 3.5 million sales per year.

I would hazard that there are a lot more luxury watch owners than audiophiles.

I've posted here several times about the fact that the audiophile demographic is very imbalanced, gender-wise and shrinking.

But the company demographic is ageing rapidly too so it my decline as the customer based does too.

What is an audiophile?

It is a fool with money who buy gear pieces  one after the other or a fool with no money ready to have fun in a dedicated room whose hobby is acoustics (me)...

This is my complete post and sentence which was truncated ...

Honest people when they quote someone put them in context and dont truncate the sentence to do their own bidding and insinuation...

My complete sentence describe this hobby in general as relating to an alternative : we go blind in an upgrade expansive race or we think and try to understand acoustics...( we are all deep in this alternative me and all others audiophiles)

My sentence was there to describe a central problem of this hobby not mocking anyone...

Anybody in this hobby has played with the upgrades race... Even me...

Then read a post COMPLETELY  and read the intention of the poster correctly before insinuating something of your own making...

@mahgister wrote:

What is an audiophile?

It is a fool with money who buy gear pieces  one after the other

So why are you here? I do not see how your name-calling inflammatory statements have any benefit.

 So why are you here truncating my sentence to turn it into a sarcasm against all people instead of describing a central dilemma in audio... I dont see how your post is a constructive post and not an attack or insinuation against me ?