How rare is an audiophile


I’ve been extremely busy lately and not had a chance to sit back and listen to music  on my system for a few weeks. I’ve streamed my favorite music in the car and on a small JBL Flip-4 portable speaker; which by the way “punches way above its size class.”  I continued to enjoy music whenever, wherever, and however i can during this “dry spell.”

So now its 5 am Sunday morning. I know i’ll be spending most of the day listening on the JBL when my wife and I drive out to a lake house we bought recently and are furnishing and getting ready for 4 generations to enjoy lake life this summer and for years to come. 
I’ve let my system warm up and hit play on my CD player. I now find myself in total bliss listening to Chris Standing’s newest CD “The Lovers Re-mix Collection.”  The effect of the quality of the sound of the music my wife and i are enjoying right now with a cup of coffee is hard to explain, but it brought literal tears of joy.  

I started thinking, how many people are like us?  What % of the population are audiophiles (whatever your definition of an audiophile is)?

I know the answer is heavily dependent on which country you live in. I live in the US along with ~332,000,000 fellow citizens (please, lets not get political on the meaning of population or citizen). 
Are we the 0.1%ers?  Are there ~332,000 audiophiles in the US?

i’d be interested in what others think about how rare our species is.

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Showing 6 responses by nonoise

Audiophile: "A music lover/hobbyist who acquires high fidelity equipment in an attempt to replicate music to a high degree of sonic accuracy."

All the best,
Nonoise

@larsman , I thought long and hard before hitting "enter". Half a century ago was around the start of the decline of the middle class. The two roles (being a bread winner and a mother) would have happened regardless of feminism as it now takes two to make what only one needed to do to maintain a semblance of the preceding living standards. Through in the "paying taxes as they do" and we have that same old axe grinding away. 

I stand by what I said and don't begrudge you your point. 

All the best,
Nonoise

Half a century of feminism has left many women now by necessity trying to do two roles (and paying taxes as they do) in the same time as their predecessors had to only do one.

 Should have stayed barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen listening to the hubby's stereo playing in the other room?

All the best,
Nonoise

 

Leave it to our resident quacks to read into something that's not there.  For at least 3 decades (if not longer), funding for the arts have been cut or scaled back, long before the commies became a thing as their hobby horse.

That, and isn't it obvious from all the flack these types have been getting since book bans and school takeovers that they're just projecting, as usual?

All the best,
Nonoise

Last time I checked, we're on the Endangered Species List.
And moving up.

All the best,
Nonoise