Comment by saltcured

Yeah, I think there are lifestyle changes and it is a shift of priorities. There are many choices. As a kid, I never would have imagines how many people would carry around $1k phones in their pockets and how many of these would exist in a household.

But I also hear lots of people complain they don't have the living space to dedicate to a Hi-Fi nor the time to use it if they did. To me, that is a sort of erosion of quality of life compared to what the middle class used to be able to enjoy.