How did you hear about Audiogon?


My audio experience has definately changed (most of the time for the better) ever since I started logging on to Audiogon. I am curious how did you fellow audiogoners heard about this website? I know I didn't hear about it from any of my local dealers. They always give me this dirty look when ever I mention about this website while visiting their stores. Also, I am wonder how they came up with the name Audiogon? The name probably reflects more of a selling site rather than an audio forum. If you had a chance to name this site what would you call it? I think I would call it, www.audioswapmeet.com, just to put some sense of humor into it. One a side note, I used to logon a lot the first few months after discovering the website. My wife started to wonder if I had a online girlfriend. I told her most of the guys here are like me, who spends more time playing with their equipments than with the opposite sex. (keep it clean guys)

Let me start by saying that I heard of this site when searching on the web for some product infomation. What started as a personal knowledge journey turned into a journey costing thousands of dollars.
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I heard about Audiogon a couple of years from a friend who occasionally buys and sells gear on this site and has, consequently, put together a fine, cost-effective audio system that is destined to always be a work in progress.

I am not nearly as afflicted by the upgrade and tweak bugs (coming here actually strengthens my resistance), but I've learned a lot from this site about what to do and what not to do with my audio system and how to respect others with differing priorities.
Audiogon used to advertise it's website in the now defunct Audio magazine, is where I saw it.
I HEARD about the site a few years ago...from my brother-in-law, but did not check it out until I stumbled across the link in Stereophile's Links2die4 section last fall.