So what’s the future look like


Can’t help wondering.
young guy that works for me, loves music from early 60’s to 2018. Very knowledgeable about rock, alt rock, classic rock, singer songwriters...band members, etc. great eh?
now the puzzle... he has no idea what it sounds like... very rarely goes to live shows.. plays music at home on computer speakers, Alexa or a tiny Bluetooth portable. 
He sez that’s all his frends do as well. 
If this is the future of music reproduction,
what becomes of Hi-Fi?
lwal22

Showing 3 responses by roberjerman

So go after the beat box and synth crowds. Show them how good Rap and EDM can sound via high quality playback! And it can! Price is then the problem. Younger people are not going to be spending the price of a car on audio components! So present day megabuck gear is liable to slowly fade away as its graying customer base dies off.
The younger generations are listening to Rap and EDM. Not Kind Of Blue or Pink Floyd! And cr*ppy cheap music systems will playback such cr*p just fine for the uninformed and uneducated! Guitar-based rock has been dying for decades.The only bastion left for it exists among the Heavy Metal crowd. And Jazz and Classical have become moribund museum genres by too much emphasis and reverence for the past.