Whatever happened to Enid?


Remember Enid Lumley? She used to write for TAS in the seventies and later for Peter Moncrieff. She was often thought crazy at that time for propagating technical ideas and tweaks which today are common knowlege. Does anybody know out there what happened to her and what she is doing today?
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I've wondered the same thing. As i've mentioned before, what she used to do in terms of cleaning and preserving her LP's puts most current "vinylphiles" to shame. Then again, she was doing this 20+ years ago, when vinyl was abundant and not "rare" or "irreplaceable". Just goes to show how "advanced" some people are with their thinking and experiences. I found the teaming of Lumley and Moncrieff via International Audio Review ( IAR ) to be a phenomenal source of information. Too bad i've yet to see ANY magazine come close to what they were doing back then. Sean
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How right you are Sean, I also think she made a better team with PM than with HP, although she had some seminal articles in TAS as well, as I recall.
Yes, always point the kitchen water spout away from your audio system and remember, if you shine a light on your speakers they will sound brighter. Enid was right about a lot of things but in some areas she took it too far, in my view. She did, however, sell off all her audio gear and I believe she abandoned audiophile pursuits altogether -- proving that there is life after audio and hope for all obsessive-compulsives everywhere. Rumor has it that she and Cat Stevens smoked together -- vinyl-bits rolled up in some of Stevens' old album sleeves. At the time there was a great deal of controversy and speculation over whether or not the vinyl-bits were treated with Last or other mind-altering esoteric agents...
lots of rumors about enid, it seems. i heard she made her way to trinidad, colo for some sex change surgery and is now writing under the name "m. fremer." but then, plato's sources may be no less reliable.... (don'tcha wonder sometimes how "america's most wanted" ever leads to anyone's arrest?) -kelly