I can say that I was exposed as a young kid to the fine wine of audio 
and now I do the same for my kids. My eldest thinks reel to reel is very 
cool, because he is young but I know that after his teen years he'll get 
back to the fine wine like I did.
Shai

On 12/8/2010 5:18 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> It's all about convenience and ubiquity with the younger generations. 
> They don't really care about media quality as much as they care about 
> media quantity and accessibility at all times and in all places. It's 
> like thinking about fine wine (here made akin to high-resolution media 
> played back on good equipment in a comfortable but not necessarily 
> convenient location) vs. Coca-Cola from a vending machine. It's are 
> you thirsty or do you wish for a deeper sensation of taste and 
> feeling? I think younger people don't even know the deeper experience 
> is out there because they are drowning in a sea of thirst-slaking. 
> This argument is made by high-end audio mags and dealers all the time. 
> They say if you expose your average younger kid to better sound and 
> video, they'll want it, they just didn't know it was out there. I 
> haven't seen any large-number evidence of exposure translating to 
> desire, however. The sea of junk-media is time-sucking and 
> all-encompassing, so when is there time to enjoy "fine wine"?
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Smolian" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>
>> Astonishing, isn't it, how people today accept data compression so 
>> easily.
>>
>> Steven Smolian
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Charles Lawson
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>> My wife and I have been very amused by these stories.  (We are just old
>> enough to remember the vast migration from B/W to color.)
>>
>> She had an excellent observation regarding those 6" screens: "Gee, we've
>> just gone full circle.  The kids today are watching all their video on
>> screens even smaller than that!"
>>
>> -- 
>> Charles Lawson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Professional Audio for CD, DVD, Broadcast & Internet
>>
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