The boomer generation is shrinking and aging, and with it the HEA market. So, the question is, why isn't the millennial generation into HEA. There are many reasons of course, but i believe a big factor is that the
nature of popular music has dictated the decline of high end audio. If
you look at the top 100 songs, very few feature actual instruments. The
vast majority are created on computers. Kids are not listening to jazz or rock anymore as they did in the 70s and 80s. High end audio is made to
reproduce the sound of actual instruments. That's the magic. Hearing a
real guitar or piano in your living room. If there are no real
instruments on a recording there is no need for high end reproduction. There is no need for high
end audio to reproduce a sound or beat created on a computer because
there is no actual reference to reproduce. The reference is whatever you
are listening to your computer with when you created the beat or sound. ... Just one man's opinion.