What's your profession? Age?

I am a 45 year old retail jeweler/manufacturer,self employed.Lately I've had to "down-size" to maintain domestic harmony...grr.My 2 channel rig is simple.A Vpi hw-19 turntable with a grado sonata,rega jupiter/io cd/dac,pioneer elite cd-r,sony 7 series dat,apt/holman pre,stax tm-1 w/lambda sigs,held together with mit t2 iconnects.I guess around $2k.

42 year old engineering director on a major government project. Roughly $12k invested and just getting started!

Business owner, private post-secondary technical school. 42 years old....

i'm a 27 year old social worker and currently working on my master's degree. my two channel system retail is about $20k. add another $6k for the integrated home theater.

I'm a 47 year old registered respiratory therapist. My wife is a registered nurse, who listens to the same old early to mid 1970's rock that I do. I've been interested in "high end stereo systems", since listening to a pair of yamaha ns1000 speakers driven by marantz gear in 1976?. I remember the nakamchi dragon cassette deck also being introduced.