WOW, I just spent the last 2 hrs reading all of the intro's. My name is Scott Jensen. The reason I give you my full name is, when I started in this hobby, back in the mid 70's, every time I walked into an audio store, I was encouraged to buy Scott components with Jensen speakers. ;-) My 1st exposure to hifi was in the mid 70's when my older brother took me to a hi-end dealer in downtown Ogden, Utah called the Hifi Shop. You may remember it because of the Hifi Shop murders. Several people were torture and killed amidst the JBLs and Bang & Olefsons. Bad situation. Anyway, I'm a 41 year old with 3 kids. I have a degree in Logistics and I guess you would call me a manufacturing systems expert. I've spent years in the Automotive business, learning from Toyota, and eventually from the Goldratt Institute. Some of you may know what that is . . . My love of music started when my older brothers brought home an album called "Meet the Beatles". My love of great audio stems from the Hifi Shop visit when we demoed a huge pair of JBLs via a Linco table and Phase Linear power. I was hooked. I've since listen to everything I could, but have never been so impressed as the time I found a small speaker store in downtown Salt Lake City called Speakerlab. They had a pair of towers called model S50's. Designed by Milos Nestorovic they had a 2 bass drivers, a 10" & 12" wired in a patented series. The bass response was tight and earthshaking at all volume levels. I was a young poor married guy at the time and could not afford them. So I continued to dream about buying them. During this time the Speakerlab store closed and Nestorovic started his own company. His speakers start at 5k which is still a little out of my price range when I've got two other hobbies to support. So, any advice or opinions on obtaining something like them or better would be greatly appreciated. Even a pair of used Speakerlab S50's would be swell, but I haven't had much luck yet. Good to read about everyone, and hope to interact with some of you in the future on this great website.
Who R U?
A while back Garfish mentioned he lked the idea of getting to know some of us better.As no one has started a thread like this before I will take the plunge.I have been involved in and read many heated exchanges here in AudioGon.I hope no one attacks me for this thread saying "who cares about you,this is audio" Anyway,Im 45 and live in W.N.Y.I have never been married but have a music loving 11 year old daughter who lives with me.I have been a nurse for 20 years.Before that I was a Navy Corpsman for several years.I recently became engaged (first time) to a beautiful 30 year old music loving woman.At my age a 30 year old is a keeper and I have never been happier!! My other interests??Im into vinyl,who has time for anything else??