What's going on with the audio market?

I can't speak to the initial post question cause I haven't a clue.. I'm a 72 year old oxy-moron... Retired musician. Since the late 1960s I've always had a meat and potatoes system. Kenwood, Sansui, Pioneer, Yamaha, Marantz or Onkyo.. with Braun 810s and Thorens TD 125 Mark something (I forget the rest). Upgraded over the years to more audiophile stuff when CDs came into being.. When I turned 70 and discovered SACD I had a realization.. I have a ton of available credit. My present debt will never get paid in my lifetime. I'll make my payments, but never finish. I decided who cares. Call it all the interest paid over 50 years. I was thinking, after standing in front of Marshalls on 11 for 50 years, Why would I wanna wait until I'm wearing a thousand dollar hearing aid to listen to $18,000 speakers. So I took the plunge. Not a hobby, but a one time top line system buy. Spent $40,000 plus of the banks money. I'm talkin' just 3 pieces. Integrated amp, sacd player and speakers. S*#t, I spent more on cables than I ever did on any single piece of electronics or speakers in my life. I've never ever heard music as I'm hearing now. So the point is if you are over 70 you have more 'disposable' income than you think. Just charge it. don't worry about interest. just make your payments, enjoy your music and then eventually die. Simple. Of course you can't do this at 50 or 65 years old. You'd have too much time left. But at 70? Do the life math. Who cares. 

Macrojack.. I'm in Syracuse, NY. now, but born and bred in Brooklyn. Have traveled and lived around the world during my 70+ years as a musician and a Nam vet.. Good Memorial Day to the Vets in this thread. It's good to be Home.

Hey Macrojack.. My daughter lived in Longmont, but the flood made her move to Superior. She brought me a Left Hand Brewery T shirt and 6 pack.
good stuff, though I'm a Sapporo/Dinkleacker guy. Colorado's beautiful. Impossible to take a bad picture. Just point and shoot and you have an award winner.

Lotta Colorado guys in this thread. I suggest you already have the best sonic tweak available in your state. Legal weed. May need no other upgrades.

My kids (in their early 50s) and grand kids (late 20s), but for 1 daughter, have no interest in the patience and suspending of all other so called tasking to sit and listen to anything or even read a printed on paper page of any publication or book unless it's Very Small and portable. That's a few generations of lost audiophile equipment sales right there. I have a pretty costly sound system and I collected first edition books for 50 years and other stuff.. Collected mint, not saved. Grand kids Could buy 2 or three homes with my stuff. But none are interested or care to put down their I-phones. They don't even get the buy homes part. Facebook, video games and constant texting and "look at me" attitude have replaced everything us 70 year olds  used to see as pragmatic. My worst nightmare would be dying and my family putting all this stuff on the lawn for a yard sale. 5 bucks for YG Carmels (cause they're smaller than..), 10 bucks for a Vitus amp and maybe 20 bucks for a Playback Designs SACD player. Oh and those custom made cables? They come with the other stuff. Oh shit. Where's my Xanax.