Why Don't More People Love Audio?

The talk directly above brings to mind a couple of things: Seinfeld. It pretty much reflected where society and culture were at the time, and music was rarely mentioned though movies often were. Of course, the show was about actors. My sisters never listen to music by itself, but they didn't when we were kids, either. The TV is constantly on in their houses though, even when no one is watching it. Makes me crazy---I walk over and turn it off. I even know musicians who don't listen to any music but their own, and then on the crappiest system you can imagine---a boombox! High end to them is the speakers in their computer monitor.

The Hi-Fi "generations" (those music lovers who desire/d and are/were willing to pay for good sound, born no later than, say, the 1960's) were looking to get their recordings to sound as much like live music as possible. Music lovers born after that grew up hearing only non-acoustical live music, so Hi-Fi music reproduction doesn't have as much meaning or value to them. Something like that, anyway.

But even my contemporaries (we're in our 60's), both musicians and civilians ;-), don't seem to be able to sit still long enough to just listen to music. People will sit and watch a movie, but not just sit and listen to music---they get restless, fidgety even. They need to be doing something while music is playing, not give it their focused attention. The quality of currently made music could have something to do with it!