The young demographics' excitement with music reproduction is with headphones. Cheaper, easier to get into, and can exceed 2-channel in many ways.
Why do almost all women today hate home audio?
Why do almost all (99%) of women never seriously, sit, and listen to home audio through even one album?
I knew many, many women that listened, and had there own stereos, in the late 60's and 70's.
They even had big record collections, and some even had real-to-real tape recorders.
Why did they disappear?
What changed?