What do/did you do for a living?

They sell there blood !

Broke failure as an artist; paycheck to paycheck and miserable working for city govt; pretty content now as a moderately successful attorney. I always cared a lot about good sound, but never connected it with gear until I Bought a Luxman receiver 20 years ago off craigslist because I loved its looks and, working for city govt, was utterly miserable and desperate for distraction. That Luxman was my gateway drug and I’ve been hooked since. Built a really good system with very little money obsessively buying off craigslist, selling on eBay. Now, I’ve got a pretty great system, though my apartment is a disaster sonically. Much cheaper systems sound better in larger, more open spaces. I’m working to buy a larger home in great part to be able to set my system up right. I love this hobby!

Professional artist (painting) and Professor of the Arts at a liberal arts college. Took my first check from the sale of a painting in NYC along w/ my first pay check from the school where I was a newly minted Professor  (Miami University,Ohio) and spent it all on a system. Some number of decades later I am still at it. Dear god: My 2 channel system right now would cost $160K to replace if the house burned down. I need counseling. No actually it brings so much to my life I can not imagine living w/o it! Cheers all ! What great hobby.

I am a retired MD. I have an Oppo bdp205, nad t778, mark levinson 585 (2nd hand), psb imagine t2 speakers, psb center, sides , back speakers, and a sony 65" tele. Frankly, it works just fine....musical, good imaging...not a sonic halogram but a very decent sound experience.

Aeronautical engineer working on aero-engines for over 40 years until I retired early in 2012. My love of audio got its real start in college, when one of my roommates brought his Quad ESLs to our shared apartment in London. As he was an electrical engineer, he built his own preamp, and I think he had a Rotel amplifier, and a Thorens turntable with SME arm. For the time it sounded amazing, and it infected me. So now I have a pair of Quad 2812s in my basement system, with an updated Sota Millenia turntable and Oppo 205 into a Nakamichi CA7 that I found on Audiogon. The amp is an Anthem A2. The upstairs AV system is KEF 207/2 and 202/2C fronts with B&W dipole surrounds, with Marantz 8805 prepro, an Oppo 105 and Anthem P5 multichannel amp. No Atmos yet, but there is no end in sight for my affliction, once I can accommodate an 86 inch TV.