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Geologically speaking, I'm quite young.
Reader "craig" writes: "Okay, let's get right to it. What is the age of <I>Stereophile</I>'s readers? The reason I ask is the choice of 'favorite music' in a recent Vote question." So how old are you?
I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority age bracket with this poll even with the consideration that the internet has a higher population of the under-thirty crowd. Your "internet poll" may not have the true representative population that you're looking for. Just food for thought...
TANNOY WEST MINESTER EVERY BODY HATES TO FORGET NO OTHER SPEAKER IN THE WORLD HAS THE SAME FOLLOWING IN THE INTERNET ALL YOU CRITIC AND EDITOR HAVE RUINED HI FI FOR SMOOTHNESS AND FILTERING ,SOUND,IS AIRY,ROUGH,LISTEN TO ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT NEXT TO YOUR SO CALLED SYSTEM ANDYOU WILL REALISE HOW MUCH YOU HAVE FILTERED YOUR SOUND BY CALLING IT HIGH END.JAPANESE PEOPLE USE TANNOY ANDSELL ALL THERE RUBBISH TO YOU AND YOU ADMIRE THESE GARBBAGE WAKE UP .NON OF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF EVALUATING OF WHAT YOU PREACH.
I'm old enough to remember the ElCaset, the introduction of the compact cassette, a respectable Julian Hirsch, the Stanton 681EEE, the JBL L100 (West Coast Sound), the Teac 4 3340 open-reel, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. But I'm not so old to remember a young Elvis or a brand-new Fisher tube amp.
If you're familiar with car audio, you know how messed up people are. I've never heard a boommobile that sounded half as good as the factory system. Personally, I'd like the military to devote a few bucks to the ceation of a boom seeking missile. I'd sleep a lot more peacefully with a deterrent in place :)
Last year's comment from Mr. D'Agostino concerning the lack of any Generation X audiophiles scared me pretty badly. Not because of the fact that that would make my hobby a lonely one without the benefit of any peersno, it terrifed me because I'd just bought one of his new receivers at the time (the KAV-300r), and should it need any servicing (God forbid), I then would technically not exist as a customer.
How old am I? Who's coming up with these questions? - highschool students? Last week you wanted to know what we wear to demo audio equipment! Whats next? Will you want to know if I hang fuzzy dice from my rearview mirror or still listen to those classic Captain & Tonille LPs(I dont by the way).Please bother to ask something pertinent on the subject of HIFI audio or don't bother asking at all.By the way I'm older than 10 but I just couldnt take this survey seriously.
We went thru this on the Phonogram list a few weeks ago and I turned out to be one of the oldest. However, I was suspicious of some who never replied. Secondly, there is a age where "real men don't touch keyboards". So you need to crank in an adjustment for both of those variables.
Although I really am a budding audiophile, I feel that I know more than I should already. I pick on audio-ignorant people all the time for the mistakes they make. Hell, my girlfriend owns a pair of Magnepan ribbon speakers that her father passed down to her. I guess I come from a group of teen audiophiles, but what's wrong with that? People say I'm too young to know as much as they do, but I don't care, I just stick to what I like: electronics, synthesizers, high-end audio, designing (but not implementing, due to lack of cash flow) tube amps.