Ken Fritz article

Meandering thoughts by Jack Handey.

There's a quote from Tolstoy about the uniqueness of unhappy families that probably applies to this man's life.  I don't think his audiophile obsession was the source of his husband/1st wife or father/son problems.  The root cause was his personality and behavior. He was an imperfect human and not everyone was willing to tolerate him.

My takeaway from the article is that whatever anyone achieves will never survive.  You could conquer half of the world and a few hundred year pass and it looks just like it did before you were born.  Of course, you could always build a Great Pyramid.

@onhwy61 …”The root cause was his personality and behavior.”

+1

I agree. Really creative and hardworking people are frequently like this, Steve Jobs, James Camron. People around him must make choices. My father treated me poorly, so, as soon as I was 18 I ended our relationship. 
 

I also think he was pretty happy, but drove the people around him crazy. He was really successful at work and in his pursuit of audiophilia. Many men beat their wives and children, or leave and do not provide for them. You could grow up in many parts of the world and starve to death, be killed in war or genocide. He provided, and achieved his lifelong goals, and got to enjoy it for some years. 

@goodlistening64 Wrote:

  10 foot speakers, IMHO, would be fitting for a listening room full of 10 foot tall people!! 

Sound Labs Majestic 945PX speakers are nine feet tall, just saying.

Mike

I suspect only an audiophile could attribute a word like success to what seems like a very sad story of failure in my estimation. Certainly, an audio system can deliver transitory pleasure, but to consider it a great life accomplishment seems bizarre.