Why Don't More People Love Audio?

The equation between high-end audio equipment and loving music is absurd. No more, no less. Many people love music, a good number even make music for a living, and don't give a fiddler's fart about high-end audio equipment. Many people with a mega bucks system wouldn't know a flatted fifth from a whole in the wall. Try again. Good day.

Because most people don't have the time to listen. From those who have, a bunch just don't get it (do you have to play it so loud? I have neighbours walk up to my door in broad daylight cmplaining, one telling my wife to turn down the system, they like Céline Dion on a ghetto blaster by the pool... the other telling me to lower the volume, he firmly belives, bless his religious heart, that the blues is the "Devil's music"... maybe I should move). This leaves another bunch who have the time but not the money (I think there's a song in there somewhere...)and then you get to those who really believe, like I do, that the whole thing really is an ends vs. means mixup. Focus on the music, get your system to a certain level of accuracy, competence then forget it and concentrate on buying recordings, reading about music, reading about recorded music and above all else listening to music, preferably live.

Joekras, got to love'ya. Short, to the point. The undoing of this hobby lies in its very goal! As someone once put it, audiophiles upgrade their hardware until they can prove that all software is excrement. At least you have Tubular Bells. Maybe another thread could be started, something like: "How many recordings do you have that still remain enjoyable after your last upgrade". Whoever can honestly answer 0, should win the "Great Golden Ear Award" and retire to Arizona. Why so few people becoming audiophiles? Most people have lives to live and don't really enjoy obssessing over trivialities.

Hm, sounds like some of the stuff I wrote at various times. My credo: set a budget, buy the best sounding equipment you can within that budget and then sit down to some tunes. May I add another point: hope you win the lotto or come into an inheritance from an unlikely source. Good day.

Yeah, the doctor is right. Music is a distant second to expensive equipment in a two horse race, when all is said and done in the audiophile kingdom. Hang around, you will see arguments in a criss-cross pattern concerning: music/equipment/music/equipment/musicality/equipment/accuracy/equipment/price/equipment/golden ears/equipment/tin ears/equipment/state-of-the-art/equipment/emotional response/equipment/love/equipment and last but not least, gotta upgrade, I've had this equipment for over two months now. Love is just a kiss away, it's just a shot away!

Charker, where have you been all these years? I get pounced on, trampled, kicked, bashed, etc (only in writing I am pleased to say, although I have had threaths of physical harm) for uttering pronouncements like yours, albeit I sometimes get carried away. Stick around long enough and you may get carried away too! Another case of audio sanity breaking out on the 'Gon! Wonderful! Good day.