Cultural Death of Hi-Fi

[Samuel T Cogley]

Smartphones!  This is where the vast majority of music is consumed by younger adults.  Ripping CDs in the 90s and early 2000s caused the birth of the DAP and the music market has never been the same since.

 

Let me put it another way:  Imagine any Hi-Fi show where there's a lecture on something most of us would find interesting.  Something like "DSP vs. physical room treatments:  Which is better?"

 

I imagine all the younger people looking at their phones the whole time during that seminar.  Hi-Fi is just TL;DR to them.