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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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schubert
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Rockadanny, too little attention is paid to the ancient saying that the good is the enemy of the best.
IMO, its mortal enemy.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Face it, one, you have to have more of a love for music than most AND you MUST have more than a bit of OC behavior in your personality.
Perfectionist might sound better but same difference.

Biggest difference among audiophiles themselves is some compete with others, some with their own inner scale.
No judgements implied(really).
schubert
7,386 posts
 
I can put together a system that sounds as real as a symphony orchestra in full cry for 10K .
A jazz trio for half that.
Madonna for a hundred bucks.
schubert
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I've been to thousands.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
The average American worker makes less today than 20 years ago.
With globalization ,aka semi-slave wages in 3rd world, it will only get worse.There is no course but to fleece the well-off to rich consumer.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
They will have the same reason they have had for a century,the greatest brainwashing mechanism planet earth has ever seen, US K-12 .
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