What's your profession? Age?

Music Recording Engineer in the Film and Record Industry. I'm 55. Two systems
Audio room $60K, Video room $50K. It's not a hobby.

Yeah, but you can write it off.

Now 37, arbitration guy for online auction remarketer of wholesale vehicles, gear about 12k now...

Ok, I'm a geek. Was wondering if the data in this thread might be useful, so I charted the ages.

www.hagtech.com/blog/images/audiogon.jpg

Interesting. Only 3 out of 304 responses were age 60+. Now is that representative of the true audiophile population, or does it reflect computer and Internet savvy? Maybe loss of hearing? I really don't know, and am curious to hear your theories and interpretation of the data.

I found it comforting to see so many in the younger 20 to 35 group. Seems high-end isn't going anywhere. The 35 to 55 group is huge.

jh

Jim, interesting statistics - seeing a strong 20-35 age group is encouraging (I am not alone!!).

Did you feel it would be worth charting the occupation as well? For example: Is there a stronger science and ingeneering or musician background? Higher vs. lower income jobs?