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My name is Craig, 34, simple guy with a wonderful dog and lives in a nice well-kept ordinary house with white picket fence. I study at the university and sometimes do perks in repairing PC's. I got in audio about 2 years ago, but never had one, just completed a nice system comprising of a Bottlehead Foreplay with upgrades, Straight 8 speakers and a pair of ASL 845 monoblocks, with the CAL Alpha and Delta as being the source. I could ask for better!, all tweaked and all using Jena Labs cables and CVH power cords, veery nice.

I just still cannot get over how addictive quality audio are. This is a social problem (not). This is a beginning of the wonderful phase of life in real artistic appreciation, I love it.

Audiogon has been and will be a valuable asset for all audiophiles across all time trajectories, and tastes.

Cheers!

I'm 49 years old and live in N Minnesota. I work for a paper company. I'm married, and both my wife and I are avid homebrewers.
My gear is modest by this sites standards (I think): Nestorovic 5AS T-cabinet speakers, adcom GFA 555 200w/c amplifier, Lazurus cascade tube pre-amp, pioneer 100 cd player, and a pioneer turntable. Any upgrades would probably be a DAC, a friend has a Chord. I'm kinda waiting for prices to fall, and in the meantime I listen to great music. So, howdy.

ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS,I LIVE IN FLINT MICHIGAN(NEAR DETROIT)I RIDE & COLLECT HARLEYS(the kind you kick start)NOT THE KIND THAT YOU SEE ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL THAT DENTISTS RIDE,I AM A FOREMAN FOR A UNION ROOFING COMPANY & WORK FOR THE MOST PART ON FACTORIES & SKYSCRAPERS INSTALLING HOT TAR ROOFING,MUSICAL TASTES RANGE FROM FRANK ZAPPA TO SPYRO GYRA,
DISLIIKES ARE PEOPLE WHO USE PHRASES LIKE OPEN & AIRY OR INCREASED TIMBRE TO DESCRIBE GEAR,LIKES ARE PEOPLE WHO USE PICS IN THEIR ADS,BEST SYSTEM EVER BUILT IS ALL MCINTOSH & KLIPSCH,mc300 amp,mc7104 amp,2 mq 101 eqs,mcd 7007 cd player,mr7082 tuner,c-38 preamp,cary audio tube dac,klipschorns & klipsch cornwalls(modified),WORST SYSTEM EVER BUILT WOULD HAVE TO BE CARVER! SOUNDED LIKE LISTENING THRU A SOUP CAN WITH A BUCKETT ON YOUR HEAD.

I am Jamie- known to friends as "The Dude". I say the word "dude" far too often and even after college- and now grad school, it is still in my vocabulary. Funny really, but it has become the norm for me. I was turned onto audiogon a year ago from a friend who found the site and I browsed every once in a while. Recently after moving into a new house and deciding to get some new gear- I researched items on the site and bought things through other audiogon members to build my current system. I am as much into theater as 2channel and built my system as such. When I can aford to do so, it would be nice to build a dedicated 2 channel system. I have finally hit the stage where I can enjoy my sytem without listening only to become a critic on where I find the flaws lie. I now have a complete dynaudio system with a rotel amp, cal icon cd player, pioneer elite dv47ai dvd player, and sony 9000es preamp. This will suite me fine for quite a while until the upgrade bug hits me again. 'Til then, I am going to gain all the knowledge I can from this site. I am very impressed with the huge knowledge base at audiogon and am more impressed with the professional and educated attitudes the members have. It seems that other sites lack true knowledge and passion and there is little to learn. Glad to be here.

47 , self taught cook . Gourmet catering buisness keeps me moving and happy. Have been consumed with music since I was a little kid , my mom loved it. Married with two pugs . I collect art and spend most of my time designing post modern architectural design schemes for my home whereby I am slowly gutting my home and making it my own world of light , color , sound and facinating objects of art . Graduate degree in business . Drummer and have been in numerous bands . Mostly rock , blues , alternative and metal. Karate dominated my life for two decades until I tore ligaments . Spent all of my money traveling the world meeting chefs after school . Music , audio and the passion of the senses is the focus these days.