But check out the photos from CanJam. Plenty of younger generation there. And while it's just "headphones," it's decidedly "hifi." As well, there's a significant DIY contingent.
Further, they have local headphone meets all over the country and even the world.
HeadFi gets upwards of 500,000 unique visitors in a 30 day period and they routinely have around 2,000 people accessing the site at any one time.
But I've also noticed over the years that as local parts supply shops have become thinner on the ground, the Mouser and Digi-Key catalogs have become thicker and thicker.
I think the Internet and forums such as this have more to do with that than anything else.
I'm not so sure.
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There definitely is more activity in anything associated with iPods, that's for sure. Not exactly what I'd call "home audio," but hey, I'm an allosaurus.
Beat me to it, the focus has shifted to private listening. Whether that says anything about the economy at large I don't know. It certainly suggests a collective turning of back on dirt cheap Yamaha, Panasonic, Sony and the other suppliers of highly featured, 'sonically perfect' commodity audio. Many of these kids are dropping multiples the cost of a 7.1 receiver on collections of generally execrable ear buds.
I also wonder how much is a consequence of a generation raised on music pureed through a Frauhopper. The 1 in 10 musical generation, never having heard more than one recorded bit in ten. The one bright light appears to be a return to full and high rez formats as seen in the Internet Archive live music recordings. I doubt it's SY following Phish around the country with a 96/24 recorder.
I would think that the travel and cost involved for attending a DIY event half way across the globe would favor the older crowd 😉
ETF cost 270 euro without travel.
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Yes, but BAF is cheap, located in a young high tech center, and still skews demographically... old.
And not just bees.
You really should lay off the Rosarita refrieds, Curly. You're keeping me awake at night. 😀
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Some are, yes. But many are also spending quite a lot on high end portable and home systems.
Here are some photos of a recent local headphone meet in Newport Beach.
Hifi, tubes, analogue, and young people! What brought them all together? Headphones!
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