Who R U?

Wow, I missed this thread too for the last two years. Jond, I wish I would have seen you post earlier: I used to be constantly in the DC area. Nice place to live in a downtown condo (Actually I live in a nice condo, too, but in downtown Calgary). I haven't seen David99 around for a while, but maybe we should push this thread to the 500 mark.

I used to be a very happy audiophile with almost no system changes for 5 years, before that another 5 years with almost no changes. Then my integrated amp broke and I discovered Audiogon. From there I better stop counting...

Besides hanging out on Agon, I was born in Germany in 1974. I lived there until 1997, when I came to Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA!!) to work on my Ph.D. in physics. Finally finished, I live in Calgary, Alberta, and in the Waterloo/Toronto area in Canada. With my wonderful wife being from India and later Singapore, we have can be found anywhere in Canada, US, Singapore, India, Germany. Still have to develop connections to Australia, Afrika, South America, and Antarctica to cover the remaining continents.

Well, best wishes to everyone here and thanks for "wasting" two years of my life...(nothing compared to the seven years of physics though ;-)

Rene

born in taipei, taiwan in 1977. i was lucky enough to receive piano lessons for 7 years. i have always loved electronics (cameras, minidiscs, computers...). knowing how beneficial it is for infants to hear music, i ventured into this crazy hobby in 2003, when my son was born. i admit that i love audio jewelry. both classic/vintage technology and cutting edge technology intrigue me. my wife and 2 children currently live in nyc.

Another David, 46, married 26 years, hmm, today? Yikes, I better get home… bummer dude… I've been around Audiogon for a while - just never really poked around the threads much. My wife and I live in Southern Maryland. We own a small mom-pop C-store. I've been addicted to music all my life.

My father used to have a Scott amp/receiver with the Warfdale speakers with the famous Purple Dome tweeters… still don’t know what that means..? He also had a Roberts Reel-Reel that we made endless recordings with every Saturday & Sunday – that was back in the mid 60’s… I purchased a B&O system back in 1977. The old B&O 4400 system – which I still have today - though don't use too much anymore...

I’m just now starting to get into this “new” separates world of audio systems. I now have the Pipedreams #15’s with a VAC Avatar Super and recently picked up a Spectron Musician II for the subs, and a Resolution Audio Opus 21 DAC & CD player. I love most any music – if its music… This is a great website. I’ve always appreciated the respect and mannerisms folks display here. If anyone lives in the Southern Maryland, Virginia, DC, area send me an email so we can hook up…

Great Thread
David

i was born in switzerland in 1960. was also starting to hang glide in 1975.just read the first threads .did work in a metalweavery for too long ,got so bored, that i started to spend all the money i earned "sometimes more" in stuff that i realy cold'nt afford,like driving porsches and motorbikes. bevor that i met a girl she
was from germany ,she also liked that life style ,did not have another joyce i guess. so when she moved in, we bought our first accoustic research speakers,not knowing much about hifi,but sounded best from a small display . that was in 1981 ,then after those boring 10 years consummating luxury stuff i had purchased my first house , went self employed " still wondering how i managed to buy a house with at least $20'000 in debth", but i did good for 5 more years self employed, i never liked the job as weather shelter installer and seller.then in 1994 my friend asked me to emigrate to canada. shure i sayd , so i sold house porsche and all my new mark levinson ,martin logan ,proceed. sota etc.gear . went to canada. just like that. i was shure to get a simple live started without luxury . well, after arriving in vancouver and having a bit of cash i bought a house in the interior of bc. just bevor leaving vancouver i picked up a pair monos from sonic frontiers could not resist had to drive those infinty rennaisance 90 i brought over. i never installed my stereo until 3years ago .forgot to mention i also picked up a nice looking oracle delphi back in vancouver. the whole thing never sounded right with a ps audio pre amp and old denon cdp. in the mean time since arriving in canada , i had obligations to get the landed imigrant status.i started an equipment rental bussines,had to hire a canadian worker for six month and my wife got pregnant almost lost the house having spent the mortgage money on all this equipment ,had really a tough going with that business ,not good talking english din't help either. with help of another frind i met here , i got true it financialy. now since about a year i am a member of audiogon got hooked again and bought some high end gear . god whenn does it ever end? i have now three boys a working business and a hobby i enjoy and i love to read this forum.i hope this was not waisting to much of your time. thanks for having this forum.erwin.

I am sure some of you have heard of the website myspace.com, I joined in an effort to help a friend launch his website and have found it is great getting to know more about people and groups of people... In any case I would encourage you to join if you are interested in knowing more about fellow audiophiles who participate in this community. I've even took the liberty of making an official audiogon group so we will be able to track each other down. Just add http://groups.myspace.com/audiogon as your group and you'll find other audiogoner's for right now I am the only one and one is the lonliest number :) This is myspace for those who are not familiar with what it is.

For those in doubt of this sort of thing, just give it a shot its free and you can delete it if it you wish. I've got in touch with people I haven't talked to in years, I am able to keep in touch with those I don't see often and its easy.... the one tip I will offer is don't use it during peak hours when you have 8+ million people on any site at one time it slows things down a bit, in particular when your creating a profile.

Let's see if this flies.