Who R U?

WOW, I just spent the last 2 hrs reading all of the intro's. My name is Scott Jensen. The reason I give you my full name is, when I started in this hobby, back in the mid 70's, every time I walked into an audio store, I was encouraged to buy Scott components with Jensen speakers. ;-) My 1st exposure to hifi was in the mid 70's when my older brother took me to a hi-end dealer in downtown Ogden, Utah called the Hifi Shop. You may remember it because of the Hifi Shop murders. Several people were torture and killed amidst the JBLs and Bang & Olefsons. Bad situation. Anyway, I'm a 41 year old with 3 kids. I have a degree in Logistics and I guess you would call me a manufacturing systems expert. I've spent years in the Automotive business, learning from Toyota, and eventually from the Goldratt Institute. Some of you may know what that is . . . My love of music started when my older brothers brought home an album called "Meet the Beatles". My love of great audio stems from the Hifi Shop visit when we demoed a huge pair of JBLs via a Linco table and Phase Linear power. I was hooked. I've since listen to everything I could, but have never been so impressed as the time I found a small speaker store in downtown Salt Lake City called Speakerlab. They had a pair of towers called model S50's. Designed by Milos Nestorovic they had a 2 bass drivers, a 10" & 12" wired in a patented series. The bass response was tight and earthshaking at all volume levels. I was a young poor married guy at the time and could not afford them. So I continued to dream about buying them. During this time the Speakerlab store closed and Nestorovic started his own company. His speakers start at 5k which is still a little out of my price range when I've got two other hobbies to support. So, any advice or opinions on obtaining something like them or better would be greatly appreciated. Even a pair of used Speakerlab S50's would be swell, but I haven't had much luck yet. Good to read about everyone, and hope to interact with some of you in the future on this great website.

Retro, the woodworking is the easy part as I am finding out. I just may take you up on the advise as I get closer to designing crossovers. It's been a long time since I graduated engineering school.

i am a 53 yo married physician assistant who works in an ungent care fascility 3 days a week,owns a home health care agency and a surgical assistant business. i have been involved in audio for most of my adult life but only into highend for the past 15 yrs. i have a very forgiving wife who tolerates my addiction.i also have 1 large old english sheepdog and 8 cats.

Ok all you new faces here.Give it up and tell us a little about your self and what your packin for audio gear.Dont be shy,we all had to do this too.

Well answering David99's post I consider myself a 'newcomer' and feel obligated to let everyone know what's going on with my system. The best component in my system is my speakers, Avalon Eclipse. I have a Rotel RB-990BX amp powering them now, but I also use sometimes some heavily modified adcom GFA-565's. I realize neither amp does justice to the speakers but I have plans of replacing them as soon as I have made a decision. I also have a Acurus Act 3 pre-amp which is also on it's way out the door in exchange of a BAT pre-amp. I use a Rega plannet 2000 CD player and think I am going to purchase a turn table within the year. I listen mostly to Jazz and some rock and a little bit of techno. And I also am a big cables guy (I really think it makes a difference, I am a believer) so I use TEKline cables throughout the stereo, all pure silver wire, if there are any questions on my gear feel free to coment here our send me an e-mail I would be glad to answer any questions( and if you e-mail me NO one will rate your post!) Thank you and happy listening.