[zeroflow]

Those HiFi people are still there. And the products evolved with time.

My guess: >90% of music consumers don't care about quality as long as it's good enough. What they care is ease of use. Why should they have a complicated setup and try getting their records in lossless FLAC when they can just go onto Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube and press play.

I've seen lot's of people that don't even care that their audio has the intro parts when playing from youtube. So why should they care for HiFi.

[Bakary]

In some ways, audiophiles are the mirror image of this on the other end of the spectrum. Detectable improvements in sound do not matter and ABX testing is never mentioned in polite company. Why should they have a straightforward setup when they can purchase ever more arcane products and services to distance themselves from plebeians?

[lloeki]

> try getting their records in lossless FLAC when they can just go onto Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube

Apple Music has lossless now.