What made you select "audio" as your hobby

I don't think I "selected" it, rather I just drifted into it through a love of music. It doesn't hurt that I have an engineers mind and was attracted to the technology! Oh how I fondly remember the Lafayette catalogs....

like viridian, i've collected music all my life.....most of my friends and associates who have done the same as a hobby, could care less about audio components. my father passed his 'stereo' hobby down to me, and to this day i even prefer to tell people (who could care less) that my 'stereo' is my hobby.......'audio' sounds like something that requires a skill other than flaking off and listening to music.

Girls and now women never paid attention to me....so I had to do something.

My dad was an audiophile since the late 60's and so were my uncles. Use to hate it when he would take me vinyl shopping and to those endless listening parties. Officially got hooked into high end audio when I was 12 and the rest is history.