What other obsessions do you have?

Uppermidfi & Gilas - since you guys were the first to ask, (and you're right Uppermidfi, a good following just from Audiogonners would be a great place to start!), email me, and I can find out about sending a sample bottle to you each "on the house", and if you like it, you can spread the word... :-) We are about 100 miles from Margaret River Gilas, our area is the Ferguson Valley.

I like cooking fine meals. Drinking microbrew, homebrew, or wine. Traveling. With my wife.

I also am very into politics and current events and spend a lot of time watching and reading what is going on in this crazy world of ours.

Sports is a diversion I enjoy, especially baseball and hoops.

I stayed away from this thread for the past several days assuming that it would just be a bunch of self-absorbed braggarts and snobs engaged in a "mine is bigger than yours" pissing contest.

With very few exceptions, I was right.

At least we all love music???

Gullahisland -

If you don't enjoy the thread, why are you posting to it? Move on man, nothing to see here but us braggards and snobs.......the very same ones posting everywhere else on this forum. What the heck is wrong with folks sharing some aspect of the rest of their lives and what they care about outside of audio. It is an off-topic thread, much like many here that have been very popular. It serves to get a more complete picture of many of the folks you are reading posts from. I think your criticism is rather harsh, and even jaded. The proverbial pot calling the kettle black. But you are partially correct: with few exceptions everyone elses IS bigger than yours! 8- )

Marco

"It serves to get a more complete picture of many of the folks you are reading posts from."

-My point exactly. And up until your most recent post, I actually found you to be a pretty affable guy.

"But you are partially correct: with few exceptions everyone elses IS bigger than yours!"

-I'll have to take your word for it Marco.