[John Stone]

On 7/25/13 2:32 PM, in article ,
"Audio_Empire" wrote:

Audio, as a hobby, is in decline because young people's tastes have
changed and therefore no new blood is coming into the hobby. Youngsters,
today don't actually care about listening to music any more. Nor do they
care about the quality of reproduction in the music that they DO hear.
Music has become, to a large extent, a commodity among the young. The
idea of sitting down and actually listening to music for the SOUND of
music has become passé.

AND.....

There IS a resurgence in vinyl. One would have to be really out of the
loop to not have noticed it. There are more 'tables, arms and cartridges
on the market today than at any time since the advent of the CD (~1983).
And the people in this business MUST be selling this equipment to
SOMEONE.

Ok, how do you square these two statements of yours? You have to care enough
about listening to music to go through all the trouble of doing it with
vinyl, right? Or are these new turntable buyers just "hipsters" that own
these things because they're "cool", but use them when they want to show off
to their hipster friends? Or maybe a bunch of us old farts are out buying
their last turntables that they can bury with us? Whatever, it doesn't seem
to bode well for the market over the long term.