my turn i suppose. i am a 27 year old obsessive compulsive audio enthusiast, er i mean audiophile. i realized i had a problem when i spent 6 weeks stalking preamps. somehow i have found time to graduate with a b.s. in mathematics and attend graduate studies in education so i can continue learnin' my students. i teach statistics at a two year college and algebra at a private secondary academy. i work as a professional tutor in mathematics, primarily high school and undergraduate levels, and help coordinate a federally funded program to assist esl students in preparing for the sat test. when i'm not doing all that or running, mountain biking, caring for my dogs or on audiogon, i listen to music, all kinds, as much as possible. actually i've noticed that if i have access to music, i can't be in a room without it for more than say 5 to 10 minutes. when i realized this one day, i knew that an investment in hifi would suit my life perfectly and bring me many, many hours and days and years of joy.
i fell into the world of hifi when i thought it was time to update a 18 yr old kenwood system my father gave to me. i went to a local hifi shop and purchased a receiver, little did i know, a cdp and a pair of floorstanders. since then i've found a better use for my receiver in my fathers ht setup, replaced the cdp and still use the paradigms. the receiver wasn't too much of a blunder since i communicated to the salesman that ht was likely in my future anyway and i didn't think i could afford a better integrated or separates then. so of course i quickly rationalized the expense of about $600 and picked up some cambridge audio separates. i just happened that the same dealer sold rogue audio, so as you can expect, within 2 months i rationalized the expense of about $4k on a very sweet pair of rogue separates. i finally felt and still feel very settled and satisfied with what i have now based on what i hear when i listen and what i have since learned. can't learn a damn thing without a few mistakes. at least that's what some professor said to me while we were talking one day.
so enough babbling, i think this will give you a good enough idea of who i am.
i fell into the world of hifi when i thought it was time to update a 18 yr old kenwood system my father gave to me. i went to a local hifi shop and purchased a receiver, little did i know, a cdp and a pair of floorstanders. since then i've found a better use for my receiver in my fathers ht setup, replaced the cdp and still use the paradigms. the receiver wasn't too much of a blunder since i communicated to the salesman that ht was likely in my future anyway and i didn't think i could afford a better integrated or separates then. so of course i quickly rationalized the expense of about $600 and picked up some cambridge audio separates. i just happened that the same dealer sold rogue audio, so as you can expect, within 2 months i rationalized the expense of about $4k on a very sweet pair of rogue separates. i finally felt and still feel very settled and satisfied with what i have now based on what i hear when i listen and what i have since learned. can't learn a damn thing without a few mistakes. at least that's what some professor said to me while we were talking one day.
so enough babbling, i think this will give you a good enough idea of who i am.