This Generation

[Shrek]

All i can say is good luck 💿

 

[Al ears]

All i can say is good luck 💿

Pardon??
Can you please explain the reason for your post?

 

[Shrek]

Pardon??
Can you please explain the reason for your post?

Sorry ignore me was thinking out loud !

 

[Gray]

All i can say is good luck 💿

No need to pity them too much - at least when it comes to hi-fi.
They've got access to better quality (and often value) than previous generations.

 

[npxavar]

No need to pity them too much - at least when it comes to hi-fi.
They've got access to better quality (and often value) than previous generations.

Better everything in terms of technology, but what about the funds to afford them? What about saving for a house?

You see the picture ...

 

[Gray]

Better everything in terms of technology, but what about the funds to afford them? What about saving for a house?

You see the picture ...

Of course I see the overall picture.

But, think about your early hi-fi equipment.
Think about how its price compared to your income.
Now think about the value and quality of (some) of todays hi-fi....
(Wish I could have bought as well, for so (relatively) little).

And, not sure about you, but I'm about as well off now as I've always been.....i.e. not very

 

[npxavar]

Uhm... ever improving affordable hifi is a "First World Problem" among "First World Problems". Why? Because most "First World" people will laugh at what the Hi-Fi market and its consumer base consider "affordable".

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Am I the only one wondering what this thread is about?

 

[Al ears]

Am I the only one wondering what this thread is about?

No.
He? seems to be embarking on a post count increase exercise by posting gibberish...

 

[davidf]

No need to pity them too much - at least when it comes to hi-fi.
They've got access to better quality (and often value) than previous generations.

But don’t actually take advantage of that…

 

[npxavar]

But don’t actually take advantage of that…

Hi-Fi is best suited for music that includes at least some acoustic instruments. We mostly care about how the instruments used by the bassist sound in a rock band when judging Hi-Fi, right? The music that is popular with this generation is so simulated and corrected in its sounds that very little naturalness is left for a revealing Hi-Fi system to expose.

 

[Al ears]

And we still have absolutely no idea as to the OPs intial post.....

Ho hum!

 

[WayneKerr]

All i can say is good luck 💿

Think I've got an inkling of one aspect you may be pointing at... the price of things today.

One example - Housing... I have two great-nieces both in relationships but have gone very different ways. One couple want it all - new cars, latest tech and fashion, meals out at fancy restaurants, a nice house in an area they can't afford... so they rent. It's all an illusion. Next couple saved hard, went without new cars, the latest tech fashion and living it up... they've just bought their first house. The couple renting are jealous as hell!

Youngsters these days bleat far too loudly and say our generation had it easy. I certainly didn't when I was buying my first house, it was hard and sacrifices had to be made. Kids of today want it all without sacrificing their lifestyle... if you want something then be prepared to give up some aspects you consider to be essential, as they're not essential, they're luxuries.

I wouldn't like to go back and do it all again, it's hard. Maybe even harder today because somehow you are seen as deficient if you don't have a fairy-tale lifestyle, which is completely the wrong outlook.

 

[Shrek]

Think I've got an inkling of one aspect you may be pointing at... the price of things today.

One example - Housing... I have two great-nieces both in relationships but have gone very different ways. One couple want it all - new cars, latest tech and fashion, meals out at fancy restaurants, a nice house in an area they can't afford... so they rent. It's all an illusion. Next couple saved hard, went without new cars, the latest tech fashion and living it up... they've just bought their first house. The couple renting are jealous as hell!

Youngsters these days bleat far too loudly and say our generation had it easy. I certainly didn't when I was buying my first house, it was hard and sacrifices had to be made. Kids of today want it all without sacrificing their lifestyle... if you want something then be prepared to give up some aspects you consider to be essential, as they're not essential, they're luxuries.

I wouldn't like to go back and do it all again, it's hard. Maybe even harder today because somehow you are seen as deficient if you don't have a fairy-tale lifestyle, which is completely the wrong outlook.

👊

 

[npxavar]

And we still have absolutely no idea as to the OPs intial post.....

Ho hum!

Looks like we'll never know ...