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??
david99
I'm 27, and I've been in school for 9 years (M.A., political science, J.D.). When I got out, I was supposed to have a reasonably lucrative job lined up. Right after I signed a lease in DC (for $1100 a month, fairly modest by Washington standards), I got laid off from the job, before I even started it. So, I sold all my audiophile gear to get by. I had a respectable rig, too...Theta Data Basic II transport, MSB Gold Link III, Adcom GFP-750, cables, power cords...everything, gone. Oh! I did keep one thing. I'm the only dumb SOB on earth who has a one meter pair of Kimber Select 1030's running from his digital cable box to his television. But hey, that'll be my one building block when I can afford to get back in the game.
No you're far from dumb, Thedautsch! Your Kimber Select will be well broken in, once you restart building a system. May that be soon and the best of luck to you.
You're in good company Thedautch. I had a wonderful Accuphase system many years ago when I was in college (and about your age) and had to sell it as well to pay rent and eat. While I don't regret having to get rid of it given the circumstances, I do wish I still had it.

Ken
I guess I should post a bit about myself as long as I'm responding to other folks this thread. I'm 43, single – no children, and living in Silicon Valley. I've worked in the software biz since getting out of school and in my current position I'm managing a user interface development team at a down, but not quite out dot-com company. Lest you think that Silicon Valley startups are (were) a sure fire recipe for success, I’ll be happy to set you straight ;-).

During my time at college (2 stints, 2 degrees), I supported myself selling audio equipment at several mid-fi audio stores in L.A. and Santa Barbara. I'm not sure I can say that sales was an especially good fit for me, but being able to spend that much time with music that I loved was absolute heaven. Very often, when I’m looking down the barrel of a high stress, frantic production schedule, I think back on those days with a great deal of fondness.

Over the years, I’ve had a number of reasonably modest, nice sounding audio systems to support my love for music. A couple of years ago, thanks to an extraordinarily generous Nasdaq, I was able to manage a full upgrade to my audio system, which not so coincidently, was about the time I started conversing with the great folks here. I enjoy a pretty wide variety of music, which in recent years has included a lot of classical, jazz and folk, and every now and then a bit of good, hard edged rock (I've mellowed a lot with age, but not completely).

Cheers,
Ken
d99,
yeah, i sometimes miss the snow butmostly the FALLS at niagara. saw it an about 1am in feb, full moon, frozen over!! AWESOME!!!
.....regards....tr