I think people are more into home theater and A/V gear because their more into the overall experience of watching a show or movie. There's just no visual experience to listening to a home Hi-Fi as opposed to live music. They don't know what to look at while listening to music and end up getting bored. To them, music is for the background while you do something else.
Us audiophiles really focus on the music and listen critically. We know about the music and what to listen for, we think about all spects of the sound- where the saxophone is relative to the piano on the soundstage, the attack and decay of the note, the sizzle of the cymbal, the sound of the stick on the snare drum, etc. I often imagine I'm in Birdland in the 1950s listening to Coltrane and his band live (a martini helps this experience).
In other words there is a cerebral and emotional experience that peaks our interests. For us it is not just the notes being played, but the pureness of the tone that has an emotional impact. That is why we could not possibly be satisfied with MP3 players for a real listening experience. This seems to be lost on the majority of the music listening public.
You won't see the average person doing real listening sessions because there is no cerebral connection and their mind starts to wander and they lose interest.
I have a laptop that has software called Gallery Player that plays a slide show of famous works of art and photographs on my big screen TV. You can do playlists like an iPod with it. I have set up different playlists of images for different types of music (for example, classic works of art while playing classical music or old B & W photographs of NYC with jazz). I find that playing this when people are at my house while the music is playing helps hold their interest.
Us audiophiles really focus on the music and listen critically. We know about the music and what to listen for, we think about all spects of the sound- where the saxophone is relative to the piano on the soundstage, the attack and decay of the note, the sizzle of the cymbal, the sound of the stick on the snare drum, etc. I often imagine I'm in Birdland in the 1950s listening to Coltrane and his band live (a martini helps this experience).
In other words there is a cerebral and emotional experience that peaks our interests. For us it is not just the notes being played, but the pureness of the tone that has an emotional impact. That is why we could not possibly be satisfied with MP3 players for a real listening experience. This seems to be lost on the majority of the music listening public.
You won't see the average person doing real listening sessions because there is no cerebral connection and their mind starts to wander and they lose interest.
I have a laptop that has software called Gallery Player that plays a slide show of famous works of art and photographs on my big screen TV. You can do playlists like an iPod with it. I have set up different playlists of images for different types of music (for example, classic works of art while playing classical music or old B & W photographs of NYC with jazz). I find that playing this when people are at my house while the music is playing helps hold their interest.