I like to say "Rock and Roll saved my soul" as a teen ager in the early 70's. Word and feelings I could not express found expression in the Stones, Santana, Dylan, Mitchell, and the Dead. Concerts became "church" for me and the records relieved me of my adolescent anxieties and took me to a joyful place. Consequently, the better the music reproduction, the better I was able to re-experience that "magic" over and over again.
What began with my father's laughable table stereo with a built-in 8 Track player and Garrard turn table in 1969 has become a search to recreate and reexperience that musical magic. Today I can appreciate the beauty and grandour of being human through jazz, classical, and folk as well as my beloved "rock classics". I'm now leaving the mass market of mid-fi for the new world of hi fi and I'm having a good time seeing what this new strata of technology and excellence has to offer. Oh, I hope you old time audiophiles remember how much fun it was to "fall in love" with sound and equipment, to learn the names of the different manufacturers, to learn the "inside" jokes and secrets of the audiophile culture/cult because that's where I'm at. For a lot of us, it was always about the music, and about expressing what it was to be human. We just found a more expressive and expensive tool to search with than most folks.
What began with my father's laughable table stereo with a built-in 8 Track player and Garrard turn table in 1969 has become a search to recreate and reexperience that musical magic. Today I can appreciate the beauty and grandour of being human through jazz, classical, and folk as well as my beloved "rock classics". I'm now leaving the mass market of mid-fi for the new world of hi fi and I'm having a good time seeing what this new strata of technology and excellence has to offer. Oh, I hope you old time audiophiles remember how much fun it was to "fall in love" with sound and equipment, to learn the names of the different manufacturers, to learn the "inside" jokes and secrets of the audiophile culture/cult because that's where I'm at. For a lot of us, it was always about the music, and about expressing what it was to be human. We just found a more expressive and expensive tool to search with than most folks.