People over 50 were likely involved in much of the design of the speakers, amps, wire, and front end components you hear, the mastering of the music you buy, the conducting and performing of much of the classical, jazz, or whatever stuff you might like, and every other aspect of music reproduction. I'm over 50 and am currently a sought after professional live sound technician/recording engineer (and musician/composer), and my experience when working with many younger (a lot younger) sound mixers is they (not ALL of course) can be completely clueless and have tin ears, to put it mildly. Nothing makes up for experience and taste it would seem...example: Patty Larkin (I name names in case this can somehow get back to the culprit) brought a young dude along to mix for her at a concert venue I had system-designed, mixed, and recorded successfully for many years. A sold out show...This guy had a "degree" in some music related technical field and worked in a studio someplace so I assumed he had a clue...man...No idea how to use trim pots (on a standard pro Mackie board no less) for mic level, no idea how to utilize clean amplification without compression or excessive EQ, a monitor mix nightmare episode, and it all resulted in the ONLY gig where other pro musicians in the crowd, along with some regular audience members, actually said the sound kinda sucked. This happened again for a sold out Janis Ian show (I can't kick out the artist's little mixer friend, can I?) and it was a cringe worthy episode of my having to rescue the hapless "sound chick". Lesson learned: Generally speaking, as far as taste and a refined ability to discern sound quality goes, young people can kiss my ass.