Are Audiophiles dying out?

My almost 18 year old daughter went shopping in Norwich today and bought 3 CDs, but I doubt she will ever play them. She has a small vinyl collection too, most of which are unplayed. She values the ownership and supporting the artist, but is quite content to mainly listen to Spotify on her phone via Bluetooth headphones.

As I’ve mentioned before, she has a very broad music taste including a lot of oldies, and that’s not all to do with my influence, although that is certainly part of it. I put together a “proper” system for her in her room but she hardly used it after the initial interest so it all went back in the garage as she valued the space more than the sound quality - and to be fair, if you like listening via headphones, the sound quality with a half decent pair is pretty exceptional these days. Apparently headphones with wires are all the rage now!

I believe as long as we are here, we will always need and crave art, be that literature, art itself, music or any other form of creativity. It may diminish, but I don't personally think it will ever die.

What is an audiophile anyway?

Hopefully they'd be intelligent enough to know that the tracking force of their cartridge could be radically different here to their home planet.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Hopefully they'd be intelligent enough to know that the tracking force of their cartridge could be radically different here to their home planet.

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Well we know from Star Trek that gravity is exactly the same on all habitable worlds. And they all speak American English.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Hopefully they'd be intelligent enough to know that the tracking force of their cartridge could be radically different here to their home planet.

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The Voyager gold disc was accompanied with a pickup cartridge and instructions on how to play it. The record itself is played just like a record here, but at a speed of 16 2/3 rpm, and there is a reference to a hydrogen transition resonance frequency, so the aliens will know to spin the disc at exactly 3.6 seconds per revolution.

There was video information on the disc as well.

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Originally Posted by Macca

Well we know from Star Trek that gravity is exactly the same on all habitable worlds. And they all speak American English.

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I know that from watching Trump and his cronies on telly. I bet when the cameras aren't rolling they revert to Klingon.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

I know that from watching Trump and his cronies on telly. I bet when the cameras aren't rolling they revert to Klingon.

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Trump makes a deal with the aliens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6QcGPwY-M

Surely one can tell from the prices of vintage or second hand equipment. Quite a few of the students I move have stereos, but only basic ones.

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Originally Posted by Macca

They must have turntables otherwise how are they going to play that gold record we sent them?

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That was a pretty stupid move IMHO. They'd take one look at it and think "they're not worth bothering with" and continue on their intergalactic journey seeking out intelligent life. If we'd sent a CD it would have been very different, they'd probably be sharing their warp technology or cold fusion reactors with us by now.

As it was a first pressing they might well choose to leave it unplayed.
Is it available on Spotify ?