are any of your friends audiophiles?

are any of your friends audiophiles? No, they've all joined twelve-step programs except for me!?

Happy (music, NOT equipment) Listening!

Actually every one of my friends is an Audiophile, and most of my best friends through life (including my wife) were introduced to me through music in one way or another.

I've been a professional photographer for more that 30 years and have only one friend from that business. He's an art director and recently he has been coming to our Tuesday night meetings.

Now that he too is becoming an audiophile, we enjoy each others passion for music, giving us more to talk about than our life work in the advertising business.

Music is the BEST hobby, it has brought me so much joy I can't imagine life without it.

Albert, I hope you realize how blessed you are to have a wonderful core group of audiophile friends. I have a feeling you may be an exception to the prevailing trend.

When I lived in NJ I had a nice handful of audiophile friends. I also belonged to the NJ Audio Society which gave me frequent contact with those members who regularly attended meetings.

But my recent move to Tucson AZ has me a bit confused and I confess I feel isolated out here. I've made a few friends, and definitely value them, but don't see them as often as I'd like. This lack of frequent visitation may also have to do with me being a non-smoker and almost all the others being smokers who are not afraid to light up whether it bothers me or not. (They probably don't even think to consider how distasteful smoking is to a non-smoker.)

I understand that there are a lot of audiophiles in the Phoenix area, and maybe I should look there to make more friends. That said, Phoenix is a good couple hour drive from my location, and their Audio/Video society usually meets on a day and time that I cannot attend.

I enjoy listening by myself and also sharing music with my wife and son, but it would be nice to find a few local audiophile friends who don't need to light up while they listen. Oh well, such is life.

Plato, I too am a non smoker, as is every audiophile in my group. All together we have about 19 members, counting the infrequent visitors as well as the regulars.

It's a varied mix each week. I've had weeks were only one person was able to show up and weeks were there was no place to sit.

I would think Tucson would have a nice group of audiophiles, they probably do and you just have not discovered them.

It's funny, a couple of my newest members (people coming for less than two years) are guys that live near me and someone who came to listen ask if they could bring a friend. Turns out we all got along so well we now exchange email or speak on the phone at least once a day.

What worked for our group is my absolutely consistent meetings every week on the same day at the same time. I've been doing this for over 30 years and I actually have two guys that are part of that original group.

In the last couple of years I've picked up a couple of female members. Both absolutely love music and one has a very high end system. The other is a designer and I do photography for her company.

Tbg- I think to race anything you have to be a little bit crazy, 'cept for maybe hamster racing, although the saddle can get a little uncomfy.