BobbyTimmons
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I don't think it's so debatable. Few people in my generation have experienced listening to medium quality music reproduction in a home setting, unless they have parents who still have a hi-fi system.This is really debatable. Everyone's heard a SONOS system and they are objectively better than a lot of "hi-fi" stuff that people prized in the '70s.
No, people aren't setting up 2-channel stereos in their living rooms as prominently as they used to.
And, it's not a hobby for young people as much as it was in the 70s, tweaking a system to get better performance.
Everyone was amazed at my hi-fi system at college even when it was very modestly priced. Most people from my generation have just never heard an entry-level separates system. An entry-level amplifier blows them away just because of how powerful a hi-fi amplifier is when compared how they normally hear music on laptop speakers.
You have to remember most people nowadays are growing up with music from the tinny speakers on their iPad or iPhone. Laptop speakers are listened to a hundred times more than hi-fi systems today. People usually think an Amazon Alexa speaker really sounds great and comparatively powerful. Many people (under 30) have never heard music played on a separates hi-fi system. Many younger people today don't have experience listening to CDs on a budget micro-system (from Philips, Panasonic, Sony), their experience is listening on the laptop, or an Amazon Echo if they are lucky.
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