Who R U?

My name is Tom and i used to shop (as often as possible) at Accutronics Audio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I live in Livonia which is about 25-30 min east. The guy who owned Accutronics, Arnie, started this website (yea!) and then shut down his store (boo!). It was the best hi-fi store I'd ever been in during my 22 yr "career" as an "audiofile". 5 rooms of high end gear (specializing in SETs) and 5 (or more) rooms of used gear. This was a two story building right across from the University of Michigan campus diag. You guys would have loved it! Arnie got in high end used stuff and going in there was like this website come to life. If you waited long enough you'd see just about everything. I am extremely lucky! My lovely wife, Anja, bought me a Mesa Baron amp for my birthday, and then, 3 yrs later, bought me a pair of Cary 572SETs for another birthday. In between these times she contributed her year end work bonus towrad my purchase of Proac 2.5s. She helped me choose speakers as I brought home 11 pairs before making a choice. She could listen to any speaker for five min and tell me everything I needed to know about them. Proac Tablette Sigs - too bright! Fingernails on blackboard. Proac 2s - very nice but soft and a bit distant. Alon 11 - look great but not real musical sounding. Proac 2.5s - just right! Unfortunately, Anja never sits with me in the listening room. She has to be doing something while music is on. Anyone else find this true with the women you've know in your life? Anyway, I love my wife exactly as she is and tonight feels like a Sonny Rollins/Archie Shepp/Charles Mingus kind of night. And I'll get about 45 min while she gets ready for bed. No complaints at all since Anja was a competative Latin and Ballroom dancer and looks exactly the same as when she "retired" (she stills teaches and competes in Pro/Ams) a few years ago. Again, lucky me!

Hi Tom, You are lucky! Anja sounds wonderful and I'm glad you appreciate her. Happy listening, Tom

Greetings to Tom and ALL, it's great to hear about all of you. I have read MANY posts and always wondered about the people on the other end! My name is Larry. I am 47 and live in Perrysburg,Ohio. I also have had the opportunity to shop at Accutronics in Ann Arbor. It was like being in a great big TOY store! My pretty understanding wife's name is Marcia (lets me spend $$ on my addiction) she is a medical transcriptionist self employed. We have two children Brian 20 stationed at the Marine Corps Air station in Beaufort S.C. And Becky a freshman in college. I taught public school for several years, became a school adminstrator for 18 years and now have returned to the classroom (3rd year). I got into music in junior high participating in band and orchestra. Bought my first system in 1971 and never looked back. I am also an avid white water kayaker,as well as teach the sport. I go by two different user names depending on my location. lakiraly or lak

Ok, my turn I guess (great thread by the way!) I'm 28 years old, originally from Dublin, Ireland. I emigrated to the States - New York to be exact when I was 22, after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, in business and economics. I lived in NY for four years as a banker. I didn't enjoy it much and so went back to college - MBA at Kellogg, Chicago. Now I've moved to California, working in high tech and love it. I first got into audio when I was about 18, combining pocket money and summer job money to get what I thougth was a great system - Denon PMA350 amp, Aiwa cd player and Mission speakers. The sound was great, but couldn't touch my present system (although still humble compared to the stuff you guys own!) I just discovered this site about 4 months ago - luckily coinciding with my graduation from college, and the associated reversal of money flow - I've switched from paying college fees to cashing paychecks :-) I have a girlfriend, Vivien, for the last two years. She's awesome - so awesome in fact that I am minding HER B&W Nautilus 805s and Arcam 7 CD player- yes, she is very much on-board with hi-end audio. My frineds are not surprised at my interest in high-end audio as I always seem to fall into the trap of focusing on hobbies that are very expensive and very technical. My best friend tells me that next step for me is pro photography - he could be right. Well, that's enough from me I guess. Cheers.

I'm 33 years old and have been at this for a LONG time. My father was into the old British gear and I've played with everything under the sun. From HUGE B&Ws, Krells, Linn LP-12, etc. I moved to a tiny appartment when we moved into the Big City (Toronto--that's as big as it gets in the Great White North) and changed to a correspondingly tiny system. The system was based around a Naim Nait integrated and Linn SARA Isobariks. With this system, I have been in a 10 year hiatus. I've since moved into larger place and recently, I lusted after more sound... Rayhall sold me his Plinius SA-100 Mark III (GREAT GREAT amp, if you're looking) for a good price and I'm now off to the races. Listening to better sound and more music. Next on the list is a good pre. On the personal front, I'm married and run a consultancy business that provides technology based business solutions to mostly larger companies.