The problem is that today, for most people (not us old fart veterans of the 1900's), music does not mean what it used to. I've said here before that where we would get a new album and live with it for weeks, playing it on our parents home stereo in the living room, then eventually getting our own receivers and systems and go through the motions of trying to out do our friends stereos and speakers and systems and things like that, today's modern folk take their phone and stick it in a charger/adapter and play it through a blutooth speaker and that's their stereo. They don't have a collection of LPs, tapes or discs, they have files on their phone. That's the way of the world and it's not going to change.
When we all die off there will be a small group of customers who will still have "stereos" in their homes and they will seek out vinyl and high resolution files, but it will be a small minority. You can beat these people over the heads with talk of "real sound" and loss of audio fidelity and it will not matter because the music is just not as important to them as it was to us.
How many young people listen to an entire album these days?
How many young people have never bought a CD or a physical product?
How many young people have purchased a receiver and speakers?
How many young people sit in one place and listen to their music without a laptop or tablet on their laps?
It's not the same. We had nothing else to do but sit in our rooms and listen to our music. Those days are gone. Long gone. Memories.
And despite our greatest hopes and wishes, anything we get from now until we die is going to be the exception, not the rule.
When we all die off there will be a small group of customers who will still have "stereos" in their homes and they will seek out vinyl and high resolution files, but it will be a small minority. You can beat these people over the heads with talk of "real sound" and loss of audio fidelity and it will not matter because the music is just not as important to them as it was to us.
How many young people listen to an entire album these days?
How many young people have never bought a CD or a physical product?
How many young people have purchased a receiver and speakers?
How many young people sit in one place and listen to their music without a laptop or tablet on their laps?
It's not the same. We had nothing else to do but sit in our rooms and listen to our music. Those days are gone. Long gone. Memories.
And despite our greatest hopes and wishes, anything we get from now until we die is going to be the exception, not the rule.