Pioneers in the history of higher end/accurate sounding components....and you..

Now, these were not "entry level" but Jim Thiel and his company made beautiful music with their speakers.  I will need to write down my "audio gear" history...but either Thiel or Magnepan will probably be the most owned speaker brands of mine. 
Ours is a very small part of what is consumed for music playback.  I would guess there are some boombox models that sold more than most high end speaker models.  In my youth through my middle age, I realized that many have a jukebox in a bar for their "reference" point for the sound they desire....which is fine, but does not have much to do with most of us on AudiogoN. 

@twoleftears 

Never changes the shirt, can't get the head through the hole.

tvad, I fondly recall when Larry (larsky) was  somewhat regularly posting here. He possesed a very obvious good soul to me. 

«With no head and no a.. i am only a wave of sound, free to disguise myself, and i own more content than the equation that stand for me in some books....» -Groucho Marx reading Floyd Toole

I left out the Michael (I think it was) who was VP of the record label Holly Cole recorded Temptation on because I am still embarrassed to have forgotten his name. But he’s another one I learned a lot from. He came to visit our audio club and play us some demo tapes on the release of their newly remastered Kind of Blue, their claim to fame being having tracked down a master tape and researched the deck and figured out all the Kind of Blue everyone has been hearing for years and years is at the wrong speed.

Michael Fremer by the way, this was 1992 or something like that, no internet, hardly any email, people would write actual paper from dead tree letters to Stereophile. Or fax. Mine was faxed. Thought long as I’m going to the trouble asking questions might as well include a couple phone numbers. This was before cell phones too so put my work number on there. Lo and behold Mikey calls me at work! Ha!

My life has always to me seemed rather normal. Looking back on it though, meeting Carl Sagan, Paul Newman, Jerry Seinfeld, and Mario Andretti, being on set with Michael Douglas and Dennis Miller, if all you do all day long is peck out pointless whiny blather it must all sound unbelievably fantastic.

Oh well.