Did Technology Kill This Hobby?

[Paul B]

Right... I'm 29, cassette was still playing strong early on and really till the late 90's then CD's took it all over. I love the audio produced from CD's it's so crisp and clear. I remember hearing the first tunes from pure digital format and being disappointed by the quality produced through the headphones. Now is a new day and digital quality is amazing. I'd like to listen to a CD again for comparison. My son is 2, and I know for a fact if he (ever)) asks me what a CD is I'm going to be that guy that tells him it was the best quality audio format ever produced, like the guys and gals who spoke the same only about vinyl records...

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I like the sounds of my scratchy 45 records.

 

[STiTCH87]

Without scrolling through all the comments, to answer your thread title, no. There's just a lack of people interested in the hobby from either a financial standpoint or free-time-for-another-hobby standpoint.
Then the few who decided it WAS worth it to join, of them i'd say there's probably a 25% drop off rate of people who leave the hobby shortly after joining. That leaves us with our couple dozen active members on here, lol.

I will say however there are WAY less members, posts, and things for sale now than there was about 5 years ago when I joined this site, and that saddens me. I used to have 5 people in my area always selling stuff, now I have to drive to Boston for a $20 single head of frogspawn it seems (maybe not that drastic, but it feels that way).