Cleveland, OH

I didn't know this "local club" thing existed on Audiogon. I am a 53 yr old audio lover who has been dabbling in audiophile/hi-fi stuff for 30+ years here in N. Ohio. I am a strong 2 channel guy, but also built a home theater in 1987 when we built in Westlake (still live there), and was known to be on that cutting edge during th late 80's and early 90's (even got written up in Cleveland Magazine...:>) ).

I have done a lot of work to maintain separate signal paths for a dedicated 2 channel, 5.1 channel hirez music surround and 7.1 channel movie surround (110 inch hidef since '99) system. About 75% of my listening now is dedicated 2 channel.

Don Better is a great guy and great resource. As all others die off (Hoffmans, then Golden Grampohone, now Audio Craft is weakening to the point of irrelevance, and Audio Visions is catering to "drop in" hoem theater. Don Better is ramping up his high-end busioness even more, with new lines like Basis, ARC and Quad in the past few months. I'm buying a Nottingham vinyl setup from him very soon.

Here's my gallery at Audio Circle (gives you a little look at my past few equipment moves, etc.).

my gallery

Anyway, I'm glad to have found this! I'd love to hook up.

Ted

My brother lives in Vermillion (it's 20-25 min west of me). And Fairview Park is 10-15 min away. I'm open to ideas. My post above has a link to my system, etc.

Welcome to the West Side!

You're 37 and you go by "oldgrey". Wow, I'm 55, I must be "dead-and-not-know-it". :) Welcome to the Cleveland Club.

I love Don, but ultimate HT and 2 channel CAN coexist. Here's my system:
http://www.audiocircle.com/systems/index.php?systemid=315

I'm hoping to have a N Ohio GTG sometime in the spring (once next step in remodel is done: riser is installed, new carpet and a total repaint job).

The misses secret: whenever she finds out what you spend, match it with her choice (mine is so understanding that it's kept us married 31 yrs without a significant WAF).
Ted

Not-so-oldgrey,
Thanks for the kudos. i didn't do it to show off, but to say that HT and 2 channel can happily coexist, if you plan for it. Things like HT bypass on a stereo preamp help a lot, as do dedicated signal paths, etc.

Ted

Chad,
Holy !!!!! I pray that he's getting better? Wow! Does he have donors lined up? I'd like to know what hospital? I'll email you offline (off A-gon). Thx
Ted

Semi-old-grey,
You think I have a nice setup, wait until you check out Gary's (GRR)!! Wow. :)

Ted

My room remodel project is done, the 2 channel stuff is back in
System
and I'll have everything re-installed in a couple weeks. I'll post about a GTG soon.

Ted