I’m 31 and have been pursuing the hobby for 5 years or so. A big part of what got me into it was when most bands I followed starting selling physical records at their shows, that got me collecting other records and then realizing I wasn’t happy with the playback I was getting on an old Sony TT and pioneer receiver, I began to research. It has been a tremendous amount of fun.
A lot of friends around my age are also budding audiophiles, or at least appreciate trying to get better sound than sonos or Bluetooth speakers. I live in NYC and a lot of the record shops now stock pretty decent budget audiophile gear to get people itching for some more. As others have said, if record sales are up I wouldn’t worry about this hobby dying off anytime soon. vinyl me please, which a lot of younger people use (a subscription record service) just partnered with acoustic sounds, so that should open the door to a lot of folks wanting to get more out of their equipment.
On a somewhat related note, I haven’t been on this forum a lot recently because I was so upset with the dismissive views by some members on rap and hip hop, really made me not want to support a place where members go completely off topic of the OP and make sweeping generalizations about a genre they have little to no understanding of. If you don’t like rap that’s fine! There’s already too much obstruction in most public discourse let’s not let that sentiment seep into this forum. We should all want this to be a constructive and productive space :-)
A lot of friends around my age are also budding audiophiles, or at least appreciate trying to get better sound than sonos or Bluetooth speakers. I live in NYC and a lot of the record shops now stock pretty decent budget audiophile gear to get people itching for some more. As others have said, if record sales are up I wouldn’t worry about this hobby dying off anytime soon. vinyl me please, which a lot of younger people use (a subscription record service) just partnered with acoustic sounds, so that should open the door to a lot of folks wanting to get more out of their equipment.
On a somewhat related note, I haven’t been on this forum a lot recently because I was so upset with the dismissive views by some members on rap and hip hop, really made me not want to support a place where members go completely off topic of the OP and make sweeping generalizations about a genre they have little to no understanding of. If you don’t like rap that’s fine! There’s already too much obstruction in most public discourse let’s not let that sentiment seep into this forum. We should all want this to be a constructive and productive space :-)