How large (or small) is the audiophile market?


Just curious, how big is the total market for audiophile hardware?  There seem to be a lot of manufactures vying for a a small pool of potential buyers.  I've read in places that as boomers age the market is shrinking.  I don't know very many young people, but none that i do know are into it.  Anyone have any idea what the total market size is?

jtucker

@mahgister you accomplish the impossible. You are successfully uniting people who are otherwise in fierce disagreement about pretty much everything in life. But we all/mostly all agree that you are ruining these conversations by constantly berating people. And I am leaving out the nonsense part.

@mahgister you accomplish the impossible. You are successfully uniting people who are otherwise in fierce disagreement about pretty much everything in life. But we all/mostly all agree that you are ruining these conversations by constantly berating people. And I am leaving out the nonsense part.

 

I posted opinions motivated by arguments and articles..

I never insult people...

But i answer to people like the last two one, one truncated my post to imply i am here to insult...

The other insulted me for months with no arguments...

And now you enter this game saying that i am hated by all which is false...

 I  just posted here today  about music in the jazz thread and nobody insulted me there ...I posted ARGUMENTS....go and read them...

It seems not all  people as you just did judge me harshly  as you do...

I dont berate people i gave ARGUMENT...With reference and articles or videos...

For example :

 What is "timbre" ?

 What is a resonator ?

What is musical time ?

(right now in the jazz thread i discuss about this  with intelligent non insulting people unlike the two above  here...

Why did you feel the right to post this about me ?

A hunch?

Where did i insulted you ?

If i did not insulted you why have you the right to say that everybody is against my posts ?

My defect is this : i answer to those who attack me...

I plead guilty...

But i am polite with polite people...

And i gave arguments not sarcasms as deep33 ...Go and read all the posts insults he gave me since 6 months...

Come back after and if you think his insults are motivated demonstrate to me why he has any reason to insult me without end, and  i will quit audiogon..

If not shut up...

You did not add anything positive as a rational  argument...

I love people and i hate nobody even those who insult me with no reason... But i answer them as i just answer your unmotivated disrespectful post who fall from the sky because stupidity act as a magnet and gangstalking someone please to some..

 

 

 

 

 

 

@mahgister you accomplish the impossible. You are successfully uniting people who are otherwise in fierce disagreement about pretty much everything in life. But we all/mostly all agree that you are ruining these conversations by constantly berating people. And I am leaving out the nonsense part.

just add together the number of millionaires [primary market for audiophile products that cost a small fortune], expect that at least half are after convenience and not necessarily high quality audio, IOW Bose users], and that might get you within spitting distance of the correct answer. 

By gawd, we're cranky....

I'm just a 'phile of sorts that's so used to doing the improbable with next to nothing that I'm at the point of doing the impossible with nothing...just to make the attempt, to occupy my remaining time, with the little I can amass to try to do so.

As was quote in a sort of context;

"If there be self-made hells, we all must live in them."

At least, it keeps me warm and occupied.....*S*

I think the audiophile community has shrunk drastically. In my metro area we have one audio shop. Its out of a guys house and he sells very boutique audio gear. The population in this region is well over a million people.

On a personal note...I've had some Audience cabling for sale now for a couple of months. Its priced very fairly, and I can't even get an offer. Its getting harder and harder to sell used gear.