Do you, or did you, have Audiophile buddies that you shared music, gear, times with?

What a great thread!

Back in the late 70’s, my friend Andy and I went to all the area stereo stores and shared a love of Halfler to ARC. And the music.  We went and bought the Sheffield albums.  I almost moved into his place when he bought those OHM speakers!  Those Walsh drivers were the coolest thing I’d ever seen.

Sad to say he’s moved to Florida years ago and we don’t have that spark anymore.

JD

I am not a student of the "human condition", ie: psychology or related fields, but over the years some of  the posts to threads would make for a good research study.  Nothing bad or good, just humans being humans with all to good and pitfalls of that condition.  

Here and there but in college I worked part time at the local Tech HIfi and sold systems and gear to a lot of others in my dorm. Having a good hifi in your dorm room was a big thing back then and a lot of time was spent together on the topic.
That was 1979 ish. Back in the olden days. These days most people don’t know a thing about hifi and most don’t care. “Good” sounding music is everywhere. All you need is a smartphone and earbuds.

mapman, could not agree more.  In my early days I complained a bit about my generations point of reference being a Wurlitzer JukeBox.  well that is esoteric compared to an earbud.  

It would seem that from sports cars, to hi-fi, to TV and films,...many things are token versions of what was considered very good in the history of "hi-fidelity"....what we may have now is a sampled version of a recorded version of something that might be like "live" music...but not really. 

cd318
Thank you for your thoughtful and honest post.  Part of what I loved about Chris, Dave and Gary (all of whom have passed) was their honesty in all things.  Chris worked for a national leasing company that leased items that cost multi millions (the secret of a leasing company is that they get the income and the depreciation, and as many know depreciation is the next best thing to magic with taxes) 

I hope you and all on AudiogoN have good holidays and that some will take the time to help those beyond their family and friends...as there are people that have nothing and no future.  When I provided and  served a holiday meal to 50 homeless people I was humbled and within a week one of those homeless persons died by freezing while trying to sleep in a dumpster.  I wish that this was just morbid and the exception to the rule, but it is not.  It is part of the real "Dark Side" that is referred to in films....that Dark Side is in your town and many simply do not want to see it.  I am such a lucky person to be concerned with the sonic differences between world class audio gear.