Why Don't More People Love Audio?


Can anyone explain why high end audio seems to be forever stuck as a cottage industry? Why do my rich friends who absolutely have to have the BEST of everything and wouldn't be caught dead without expensive clothes, watch, car, home, furniture etc. settle for cheap mass produced components stuck away in a closet somewhere? I can hardly afford to go out to dinner, but I wouldn't dream of spending any less on audio or music.
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Why is it a surprise that few people appreciate audio when so few have a deep appreciation, aesthetic gratification or understanding of music? It may be true that listening to music is a universal activity, but the vast majority of people do not listen to music as a primary activity...it is an accompaniment to dinner, conversation, an elevator ride or hurried walk through an airport terminal.

Second, most people have a musical attention span of about three minutes, thanks to radio and busy lives filled with careers, families and other activities. It is a foreign notion to many people to actually sit down and do nothing but concentrate on the composition, sound or content of a musical piece, especially one that lasts longer than a few minutes, much less to give thought to the structure, performance, production, etc of music. I recall, when I was younger, listening intently to music in my bedroom and my mother (a music teacher!) urging me to go outside and "do something with the day".