I’ve made a point of making friends with people on audio forums. Living in NJ I’m not far from a lot of like minded folks on AK and we would have meet ups several times a year. I’ve gone up into NY state and down to rural MD and into VA to meet with folks. My buddy and I even hosted two events in Cherry Hill NJ with attendees traveling quite some distance.
Every meet up we get to hear some new to us gear and are exposed to music we normally wouldn’t even know existed. We also normally have a swap meet, bring records along to sell and talk shop for hours.All of this unfortunately is on hold with the current issues going on but every one of us is sorely missing our time together. I’ve made a lot of good friends that I otherwise would have missed out on.
On Edit: Making friends and listening to other systems has steered me into my current system. Vinyl and MC cart, tube preamp, tube amp and Altec’s. Couldn’t be happier.
BillWojo
Every meet up we get to hear some new to us gear and are exposed to music we normally wouldn’t even know existed. We also normally have a swap meet, bring records along to sell and talk shop for hours.All of this unfortunately is on hold with the current issues going on but every one of us is sorely missing our time together. I’ve made a lot of good friends that I otherwise would have missed out on.
On Edit: Making friends and listening to other systems has steered me into my current system. Vinyl and MC cart, tube preamp, tube amp and Altec’s. Couldn’t be happier.
BillWojo