I have the good fortune to work with a number of young people. They DO think audio is cool. I have a tube setup at my office and they are intrigued and interested. Play them some of their music and they will instantly smile. In fact, a young professional I work with told me last week that she would be buying a turntable. I asked her if she had any vinyl and she said not yet.
Here’s what they don’t think is cool: things that are radically expensive without justification and people who take themselves OR their gear too seriously. The shrines and rituals are what tend to fade over time in all parts of the human experience. If you make the act of listening to music a solemn, non-interactive experience in solitude while placing an almost religious fervor to its reproduction then the community has no right to whine that it just isn’t catching on. Keep doing the same old things and expect different outcomes?
I was talking with a ham radio Nazi and he didn’t see the cell phone as a logical extention.....
Here’s what they don’t think is cool: things that are radically expensive without justification and people who take themselves OR their gear too seriously. The shrines and rituals are what tend to fade over time in all parts of the human experience. If you make the act of listening to music a solemn, non-interactive experience in solitude while placing an almost religious fervor to its reproduction then the community has no right to whine that it just isn’t catching on. Keep doing the same old things and expect different outcomes?
I was talking with a ham radio Nazi and he didn’t see the cell phone as a logical extention.....