Who R U?

400 posts now..who's going to be the winner of the LP or CD for being the 500th post?
Tim,save your pennies,we will have to go shopping soon!

Dave- You know I am with you buddy!! It's just amazing how much life has changed for some of the early poster's on this thread, a real trip down memory lane- and that's can be damn scary. Hope every one's doing well and they are even closer to audio nirvana since there first post here. Happy Holidays :o) ~Tim

I'm a 50 year old fireman, married with 2 grown sons. I grew up listening to and playing classical music but listen mostly to rock. My father was a church organist for 50 years and my grandfather built and worked on pianos for 65 years. I love music and I love this site. For relaxation I listen to music or go fishing.

i'm hoping i'll figure it out one day...

on the outside, 31 y/o, single, white male from upstate ny (schenectady). moved all over the world: belfort, france when i was real young (1 to 4); later, milan, italy (14 - 17) and tokyo, japan (17-18).

while in high school, attended the royal school of music for composition and piano performance, but gave it up in college because i thought i needed a more traditional degree. would love to get a piano again one day.

after college, moved to dc to work for the audubon society (still with them), and lived with my best friend (a dj at a club) for several years. the only vinyl i ever really knew was progressive house! we had two turntables, a mixer and my martin logan aerius setup in our living room, with milk crates filled with records all over the apartment. ah, those were the days :)

beside progressive house (BT, blue amazon, peter rauhofer, jr. vasquez, sasha, john digweed), i also love classical (chopin) and jazz piano (love dick hyman) and R&B. my all time favorite artist is stevie wonder.

oh, and my middle name is "dennis" (my father's first name). family calls me steve.

thanks to all who answered, it's great to get some personal details about some of you that i feel like i now know!

Glad to see i am not by far alone in my love for audio! I am 30 years old live in Woonsocket, R.I. married with a 5 month old daughter. Unfortunatly my wife does not share the same interest in this hobby. I don't make much money but all the spending money i get goes to my home system! I work for CVS, the warehouse, in woonsocket shipping all the good stuff out to the CVS stores. I started out with car audio at 16 years old, and ended up building a $25000.00 system in my 1995 gmc Jimmy, now i am building my home set up and will probably end up selling my system in my truck! There is no end to this maddness of our love for awesome audio sound but good to read about many of you fellow audiophiles! Sounds corny maybe to some but everyone calls me audiophil, being my name is phil and i just so happened to be addicted to this wonderfull hobby!