Why do all audio forums on the internet seem "dead" ?

Audio forums are like the weather.  Everyone complains about it but nobody does anything about it.

Actually since there are relatively few new audiophiles, you know, what with the Walkman, iPod, iPad and iPhone generation and given the lack of interest and or means to pursue an (increasingly) expensive hobby in the midst of a raging recession/depression, actually a series of them, I would opine the real average age of audiophiles doesn’t obey the Atkinson formula and to be around 64.

I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside

Uh, The Daily Audiophile is not a catch-all of audio forums.  It's simply a listing of recent articles published on the various web sites.  

As audiophiles continue to stove pipe their systems and as the high end shifts into high gear at least as far as prices go I've dumped my perfectly fine Sennheiser 600/Woo Audio All-tube Headphone amp/Hyper modded Oppo 103 for the peace and harmony of a vintage Sony Walkman CD player with vintage Sony Ultralight headphones.  No more obsessing about house AC, power cords, speaker cables, EMI/RFI, magnetic fields, room acoustics, big honking transformer issues, circuit boards rattling around, interconnects, wall outlets, fuses, grounding issues. No more teacher's dirty looks.

Daygrow wrote,

"Geoffkait- Just because your tired/worn out with "important" issues that determine sound quality is irrelevant. Unless your trying to be funny, many of us enjoy the journey regardless of the cost or mistakes! Your post reminds me to blast "School's Out"!!!"

Huh?  Are you high?

playdough wrote,

"I’m high on life! I thought the Sony Walkman reference was a joke! If you enjoy the audiophile hobby the many issues you mentioned...RFI-fuses-room acoustics ect. are viewed as a challenge not an obsession or chore. Enjoy the peace and harmony of your Walkman!"

whether tis nobler in the mind yadda yadda the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or by opposing end them? The challenges - as you call them and apparently slough off - are worthy of great effort and cost as they influence, no control, the sound. So, by going to a Sony Walkman I dealt with the physical and electrical constraints naturally imposed by vibration, magnetic fields, room acoustics, house AC power, electrical ground, cabling by eliminating them from the equation. Their elimination is a natural consequence of going to low power with battery supply. The best way to solve a set of simultaneous equations is to reduce the number of unknowns. If one prefers to ignore or minimize these issues it's no skin off my nose.

Geoff Kait
machina dynamica
no goats no glory

$3000 for a preamp? You really think that’s an exorbitant price? Geez, that how much high end preamps like the Berning preamp were when I first got into high end audio. And that was 35 years ago. Hel-loo! Wake up and smell the coffee! You know, if you're a skier and you're used to skiing all the cheap resorts, you know the ones I'm taking about, Hey, you really owe it to yourself to ski Aspen at least once in your life. 

Mapman, you have how many posts?! Whaaaat? That's priceless!

cheers

r_f_sayles,

I'll take the new DartZeel preamp at $23,250.  You can have your pick of the rest.

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/dartzeel2/preamp.html

cheers,

geoff at machina dramatica

He's back. He's rested.  And he's bashing audiophiles again. 

r_f_sayles wrote,

"I meant your "taste" in preamps geoffkait"

I assumed when you said you liked my state in preamps you were making a quantum mechanics inside joke. ;-)

Dave_b wrote,

"When you demo two preamps in the same system and then separate them, after installing the other preamp into another system, when you turn one preamp on, the other turns off....no matter how far apart the two preamps are! They call it spooky audio at a distance....apparently God does play dice with our audio."

Good one. Cough, cough....

Einstein is lying in bed with a pretty lass, smoking a cigarette. The pretty lass pouts, geez, that didn’t take long. Then Einstein says, it took a very long time for me.

She collapsed in his arms, her soul superimposed on his.

I’m guessing Crown and Peavey.

Uh, oh. Another runaway from Hydrogen Audio?

Brutal.  :-)

Shadorne wrote,

"There are some here who genuinely appreciate music and have good ears but they are drowned out by tin foil hatters and all manner of special unproven but "fantastic" tweaks (the grossly expensive speaker and interconnect cables being a clear example of the ridiculousness of these forums when a decent XLR or ordinary cable will do)

I deliberately left these forums for several years and just came back to check and see if anything had changed - it hasn’t - forums are still stuck in aimless rambling, hyperbole and anecdotes as they were 10 years ago when I first joined.

I got better things to do! So long and thanks for the fish!"

Define grossly expensive. And haven’t folks been whining about expensive cables for 35 years? Aimless rambling, hyperbole and anecdotes? Gee, you don’t say?  Thanks for checking in and thanks for the tirade.  See ya back in three years.

Cheers,