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And yet they lament the paucity of younger people entering the hobby

Gee, I wonder why?

Could it be than a recent college graduate who loves music and wants better sound, but has limited discretionary income, might be a bit put off by such prices? Might decide the whole "audiophile" thing is just a snob club for old, bald, rich white guys?

JVS basically won't review any product that costs less than an average working American's gross annual income. Typically, two or three times that.

HR has covered some reasonably priced gear in the past (like in his roundup of cheaper phono cartridges, and reviews of Elac speakers) but now is back to fetishizing over ultra-bling wires, implying that you can't possibly have satisfying sound if you DON'T spend thousands of dollars on wires alone.

Ditto, ditto, and ditto for most of the rest of the reviewers.

Little or rare mention of the fact that there ARE decent sounding speakers, amplifiers, turntables, phono preamps, DACs, etc. clocking in for well under a grand, sometimes for a few hundred.

Another "entry level" column, seeking out and informing readers of the best sounding affordable products, might alleviate the magazine's increasing irrelevance to average music lovers.

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