How old are ASR's users?

[Soria Moria]

That would be older than Soria Moria slott in writing. Not bad. (I'm guessing not really.)

Soria Moria slott was written down first in 1843.

 

[Verig]

I don't think you're describing kids anymore, but rather Millennials who are now in their 30s and 40s. For those of us who in their 20s, it's hard to say what the future holds but to me it looks brighter than what those Millennials are dealing with.

It always looks bright in your twenties, that's the trick. And it always is. It all changes slowly but when another twenty years passes the world looks much more to your liking as you're not alone with those new ideas. (Yeah, I guess I have so called positive attitude but this is my experience during this single run we all get.)

I'm 44, two kids, stable job and I bought a reasonably priced place. Older kid turned just 18 and the daycare for the younger one is 300€/month. So no great worries really.

I guess these are not the greatest years for people in their thirties when you're supposed to make connections and buy a house etc. and then comes pandemic and inflation. But this is heavily dependent on where you live and what you want to do. And some people thrived working from home (like me) but that required a job you could do mostly or completely remotely.

 

[Verig]

Soria Moria slott was written down first in 1843.

Whups, I really don't know what I was thinking about.

 

[dfiler]

Fascinating! I too would be curious to see how the demographics differ at other AV forums.

 

[amirm]

I wonder if the distribution might be different on a subjectivist forum.

It is. The last subjectivist forum I ran was dominated by the older bracket.

I went to get Google stats but the largest category is "unknown:"

That category is larger than the sum of the rest!

 

[Sokel]

I guarantee you the average age on ASR is not 46 or 47. Everyone lies about their age!
It's very likely the majority of audiophiles will die off in the next 10 years.
Kids are not interested in big speakers, SINAD or any of that. They are totally happy with earbuds and boom boxes. Even standard TV speakers are fine for most of them. They are having trouble affording a place to live and Audio is far down the list of wants.

Kids are interested,they just don't have the money and space (yet).
I regularly have my nephew's musical class here (they are 20-23yo about 10 of them) and they would really like to have big speakers and stuff.

Is just that the conditions don't favor them.
Some of them are lucky cause their parents have stuff like that or even studio but that's it.

 

[danadam]

How about a histogram?

The alignment with x-axis seems weird. As if bin width was not 1 year.

 

[Bruce Morgen]

I'm a regular ASR reader and am 77 years old, dag nabbit.

Same here -- 77, born 7/7/47.

 

[Ken Tajalli]

It is. The last subjectivist forum I ran was dominated by the older bracket.

I went to get Google stats but the largest category is "unknown:"

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That category is larger than the sum of the rest!

And yet I imagined it wouldn't be.
As we get older, we become wiser and more aware of out physical shortcomings.
Relying on our failing hearing, is a brash attitude for the young.
But it seems I miscalculated something!
Not my first . . .

 

[bachatero]

The alignment with x-axis seems weird. As if bin width was not 1 year.
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Ok, here's a new and improved histogram with the widths fixed:

It's now more obvious that a lot of birthyears happen to fall on a decade: 2000, 1990, 1980, and 1970. Fibbing or just lucky?

 

[Chrispy]

So what did you conclude from this?

 

[Platypus20]

Damn !! At almost seventy, I’m on the backside of the curve

 

[Chrispy]

Damn !! At almost seventy, I’m on the backside of the curve

In a way, that's good, at least demonstrates somewhat its not just us dinosaurs

 

[bachatero]

So what did you conclude from this?

1. ASR users are overwhelmingly in their 40s, with a sharp rise starting around 24 (college grads?), and a smooth slope downward starting at 50
2. Many more members provide their age than those who don't, with 51666/77082 = 67% providing it
3. Many users appear to be fibbing with substantially more members born on an "even" decade than any other years

 

[Chrispy]

1. ASR users are overwhelmingly in their 40s, with a sharp rise starting around 24 (college grads?), and a smooth slope downward starting at 50
2. Many more members provide their age than those who don't, with 51666/77082 = 67% providing it
3. Many users appear to be fibbing with substantially more members born on an "even" decade than any other years

I'm thinking its more than 40s as a guess, but would be glad to see a younger population of participants, just don't generally expect that.
I don't even remember if I provided a birth date or if I was honest....don't really like that stuff.
People lie.

 

[Beave]

Just remember to take this data with a grain of salt because there are many, many profiles on here with, well, inaccurate birthdates (eg, lots of people put something like jan 1 2001 just because it's easy and they don't want to give their actual age).

 

[sam_adams]

 

[sam_adams]

lots of people put something like jan 1 2001 just because it's easy and they don't want to give their actual age

Why was I not informed of this? (See previous post.)

 

[Beave]

Why was I not informed of this? (See previous post.)

It's highly classified info. Sorry, you're not qualified to see the *REAL* age data. ;-)

 

[Chrispy]

Just remember to take this data with a grain of salt because there are many, many profiles on here with, well, inaccurate birthdates (eg, lots of people put something like jan 1 2001 just because it's easy and they don't want to give their actual age).

LOL reminds me when asked for the stupid voluntary birthdate for the computer entry I just use 1/1/(my year, well into my 60s). Today a cashier bless her heart said I wasn't so young (altho I use my birth year I use 1/1 to preface just to make it easier, but am 68).