Popular Post KingRex Posted January 21, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2018 I believe the expansion of high quality audio suffers 2 obstacle. Of course money is an issue. That's the 1st issue. Let me tie that into the second issue, space. I live in Seattle. A city with little discretionary money and even less SPACE. I have bid electrical for hundreds of project ranging from small 5 over 2 structures to tall towers. 600 feet is a nice sized condo/apt. San Francisco and NY are no better. They cost around $2400 to $3200 a month the to rent. Take your 100k job, pull out the 33% tax, grocery, cable, phone, entertainment, insurance etc and you have no money while living in a Hamster cage. The spaces are designed for nothing more than a flatscreen. Get married, move to the suburbs and a house will set you back $700k. That's a scramble bid for a 1200sqft piece of land with a structure you can live in. If I could get that house for $550 I would tear it down, build new and sell fort 1.4M or better. Or you loose .75 to 1.25 hours per trip of driving to and from work. At that commute your still out $500k. Kids? That's a third issue. Little hands, thrown toys. When their older abuse during use, especially if a party is thrown. Society is build around staring at screens. I guess this is a 4th issue. I grew up with Martha Quinn on MTV. Music was partly important because we watched TV with it. I heard a clients high school kids cranking Bruno Mars with friends over. They were enjoying music. The father is into audio. He is excited about his Pioneer multi channel amp that is old, and a cheep techniques TT. To him, he has high audio. Could he purchase better. Lets see, $600k remodel on top of $500k house, divorced, 2 kids, Med ins. etc. You tell me where his priorities are. Space and Money. The middle class has huge bils. Maybe a nice paycheck but big bills. Housing is build dangerously close to inhumane space constrained cells. We are full of apts with a shared kitchen /bath and a 125 foot bed space. Those who make it big. They are few, hence a shift to $500k systems that marginally meet audiophile standards. That's why I think high end audio has barrier to hifi. PeterSt, Cormorant and Superdad 3 Link to comment
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