Had an epiphany, what would happen when all of you die?

Lol, not really.... What a useless post mine

I was reading about Elons new satellite chain, the amount deployed every week, how these get repositioned after launch, and such, and the thought that we are still debating vinyl here with so many details and audio in general it so contrasting with this new world we are living in, 50 years from now, will anyone here be so interested and debate at the levels of today? Will vinyl still be a  thing? So I just wondered how would that be when we are all gone
Like I said useless post of mine

Thanks for this depressing thread just what we needed now.

@ebm I’m sorry, indeed depressing, I feel better now (I just turned 50th)

Erik, I will put my stuff on the front curb. Don’t disturb my wife.

@lewm Hahaha good one Lew

I thought it interesting that Luis used “you” in his question. As if he is immorta l

@lewm Honestly I just picked the regular characters here in Audiogon (word fictional came to my mind but you are all real I think, AI bots are incredible these days), in no particular order. The thing is Lew I read so much (did I said kenjit in my post? Oh yeah, I did) here in Audiogon that I feel like I know you ALL (of course I don’t) I am a Noob and the level you all go into audio, and tubes, and mechanics of the TT and such is impressive, no other site or place has such specialization as this one.I personally learned a big deal out of it (wait for Raul to say I did not and that I will never learn)

Music won’t go away.

I know, I was referring not to music exactly but the details, my children they don’t care at all, I have tried believe me, I see the younger people so careless about the world and it is a very very scary world the one we are going.

Unfortunately, in the year 2071 the statues you had erected to the Audiogon Hall of Fame were torn down by an angry anti audiophile mob

@afisher The mob will come from ASR

If ever there was a guy who would be impossible to replace, it would be Al

@brownsfan True, I hear you, such a smart gentleman

Will records be around 100 years from now? Stranger things have happened, maybe not, who knows

@mijostyn yeah who knows indeed, I drank the coolaid with the CD era, and Fraunhoffers MP3’s and such, and vinyl (created in their era) is still so amazing

COVID has been a bitch, no? Hang in there; over soon.....mostly

@frogman yes apparently the massive vaccination will take care of it, this specific week Monday (here in Miami) there was traffic, restaurants full of people, I started receiving support calls like never before, like never in the last 11 months, it feels like it is over, as a matter of fact pharmacies are missing appointments and have extra vaccines so now it is just a matter of actually having the people to get vaccinated

Thank you all.

In reality the only actual people here are you, me, mahgister, oldhvymec and a half a dozen others. All the rest are bots.

@millercarbon Well at least we have here MC some variety of bots, "angry bots", "cheerful bots", we even have "philosophical disputing bots". I think I must be in the "depressing bot" category. Question, are bots allowed to post? or just reply? :)

This post really hit home

@klwms I am sorry for your loss. This was a silly post of mine

Interesting thread here.

@jwillox Really?

Yes, if you look to the past, you will see that we are all doing that right now

@ecscott482 I don’t know about that, kind of my point, all the "professionals" here in audiogon forums, manufacturers and non manufacturers, they have deep knowledge of audio, electronics, mechanics .... granted some of them they go a little to far in what affects audio and what not, but on average there is pretty knowledgeable people here, I was born in the transistor era, but I had access to tubes in my younger years, also to vinyl, started listening to stuff which mom and dad had, they did not even listened to it (they were busy working for our family among other things) but I was curious and I was left alone at home when I was 6 or 7 and I operated my parents simplified turntable and listened to tracks from Joan Manuel Serrat, Johnny Horton (The Battle of New Orleans, I still can hear that specific tune now in my head as I did when I was 7, 43 years after), Johnny Cash (so many John’s), Nat King Cole and I was fascinated by the music and the system itself, then when I was 10 I was visiting my neighbor and he played me Deep Purple’s "Black Night" and "Speed King" and my fate was sealed with rock and roll, unpacked my dads RTR (also German like the Turntable) and started recording from pirated cassettes to tape (this was back then in communist Cuba so everything was pirated) and rock and roll was banished and prohibited. Another good friend neighbor his dad was a fan of the Beatles and he also had a RTR and we used to go to this house and listen to tracks there. Music was always a part of my life, in my most uncertain moments when I had nothing and the future was open with no prospects just open, music always comforted me and gave me hope on life (kind of stupid if you think about it, what hope can music realistically offer? it won’t pay for the bills, in fact most likely will be another bill ha), then after busy working for a family and at 45 I rediscovered tubes and high end systems and I am still fascinated as I was when I was 6, not only by audio and music but the technology that allows us to experienced it and although this technology has evolved and got perfected with digital, dacs, high processing computers, class D and such I am still in awe of how the older technology still competes and it even betters some of the tech that came after. I of course believe WW2 and the Cold War has a lot to do with all those advancements in technology.
So I look at the past like you were saying and I look at the millennials now and I don’t think they will put the same effort, even learning the intrinsic on how to adjust a TT, speaker toe in, room response, crossover points, and everything that makes our hobby perfect. All the knowledge (and craziness along) and typing hours placed here in these forums by all of you, will someone care?
Let me give a quick example, Technics they will ship you their newest TT, their instructions are very general and mostly will make it work but not to the perfection and the standards provided in here. You go to Youtube to see how to adjust a Turntable, 95% of what you find is general as well. If you want specifics you have to come to Audiogon (maybe 2 or 3 other sites Steve Hoffman, audioasylum and such)

As long as that is happening, there will be a desire to reach new levels of listening pleasure

@pgaulke60 hope you are right. I know Music will live on, the desire to experience it on new levels is what I kind of question.

Why all of you and not all of us?

@petg60 good question, glad you noticed. I don’t consider myself at the level of proficiency and detail some others are here on Audiogon that’s why I think I excluded myself on that statement and I was referring to the ones that are actually the "soul" of Audiogon, the ones I mentioned before (in no particular order)

Do you know something i don’t?

I don’t know, do you? very cryptic, please provide more details, this bot cannot compute .... beep beep, shutting down now.