Who R U?

Hi Shaqspack; great intro. post-- at least I certainly enjoyed it, and welcome to Audiogon Chat. I believe "some of us" could occasionally use your professional services on some of the more heated threads. Do you do cyber-counseling? Nice to meet you too Retroguy; I see on another thread that you're already "mixing it up". Cheers. Craig.

Howdy, my name is Guy...I am a 45 year old, degreed electrical engineer. I live on Long Island, am 45 years old and have been married for 23 years. My wife and I are DINKS which is how I can afford this hobby. I also enjoy woodworking as well as the technical aspects of audio. I play guitar and have loved music all my life. I am attempting to build my own speakers. It is a pleasure meeting all of you.

Gmkowal, it's great to build your own speakers, the final payoff is extraordinary. I have designed and built some 30 pairs of speakers over the years. I am currently working on a ribbon hybrid. Tweeter/mid from an original Apogee Duetta, and several Vifa options. Anyone have any suggestions? Good luck on yours. retroguy

WOW, I just spent the last 2 hrs reading all of the intro's. My name is Scott Jensen. The reason I give you my full name is, when I started in this hobby, back in the mid 70's, every time I walked into an audio store, I was encouraged to buy Scott components with Jensen speakers. ;-) My 1st exposure to hifi was in the mid 70's when my older brother took me to a hi-end dealer in downtown Ogden, Utah called the Hifi Shop. You may remember it because of the Hifi Shop murders. Several people were torture and killed amidst the JBLs and Bang & Olefsons. Bad situation. Anyway, I'm a 41 year old with 3 kids. I have a degree in Logistics and I guess you would call me a manufacturing systems expert. I've spent years in the Automotive business, learning from Toyota, and eventually from the Goldratt Institute. Some of you may know what that is . . . My love of music started when my older brothers brought home an album called "Meet the Beatles". My love of great audio stems from the Hifi Shop visit when we demoed a huge pair of JBLs via a Linco table and Phase Linear power. I was hooked. I've since listen to everything I could, but have never been so impressed as the time I found a small speaker store in downtown Salt Lake City called Speakerlab. They had a pair of towers called model S50's. Designed by Milos Nestorovic they had a 2 bass drivers, a 10" & 12" wired in a patented series. The bass response was tight and earthshaking at all volume levels. I was a young poor married guy at the time and could not afford them. So I continued to dream about buying them. During this time the Speakerlab store closed and Nestorovic started his own company. His speakers start at 5k which is still a little out of my price range when I've got two other hobbies to support. So, any advice or opinions on obtaining something like them or better would be greatly appreciated. Even a pair of used Speakerlab S50's would be swell, but I haven't had much luck yet. Good to read about everyone, and hope to interact with some of you in the future on this great website.

Retro, the woodworking is the easy part as I am finding out. I just may take you up on the advise as I get closer to designing crossovers. It's been a long time since I graduated engineering school.