You're missing out the fact that housing is immensely more expensive than it was when we were young, as is transport, education, etc. Plus the precarity of many younger people's jobs. Hi-fi is an expensive option for young people who are paying massive rents.
it all sounds like crap on a decent system anyway.
Unless people in their late teens, 20's are interested in music before the millennium or preferably earlier there’s almost no point for them ever to get interested in hifi as although there's still some good stuff being produced it all sounds like crap on a decent system anyway.
Not some of the stuff I’ve bought recently in the last few years. Can’t even begin to compare to recordings done in the 60's. Even modern country music can no longer be relied upon for decent SQ.A lot of modern artists really care about production and sound quality actually
Excluding some very compressed productions a very good system makes even average productions quite listenable IME.Unless people in their late teens, 20's are interested in music before the millennium or preferably earlier there’s almost no point for them ever to get interested in hifi as although there's still some good stuff being produced it all sounds like crap on a decent system anyway.
Even modern country music can no longer be relied upon for decent SQ.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that. Check out this video.
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Funny, I purchased that album based on his recommendation. It came out during the grunge rock era. I’ll have to give that another spin.He says he bought Swervedriver 'Mezcal Head' in thenotherseventies, which is pretty clever considering it came out in the nineties ;0)
but still listenable