Who R U?

Hi all, Vernon Miller here. I'm 51 and live in beautiful New Hampshire. I'm a computer engineer by trade but my real love is messing around with analog. I don't get a chance to do much of it because my real job takes so much of my time, but some day...

Though I think analog media are great, I have been in the digital camp to at least some degree since the beginning (I owned a couple of the awful 1st-generation CD players) and have been patiently waiting for the technology to get good enough and affordable. I think that's happening now. So, I'm moving toward the media server/client model and am digitizing my analog media so that I can enjoy it anywhere with no fuss. (I'm using 96KHz 24-bit compressed with FLAC.) I have no intention of getting rid of my analog devices or media though, I just won't use them except to re-digitize as the technology gets even better.

I'm also glad about Class D amplification and the work that's going on there. I plan to integrate it into my system where practical.

I'm a huge fan of pipe organs and I have a large collection of organ vinyl and CDs. In other words, I'm a real party animal and the chicks dig me :-) Well, my wife likes me most of the time anyway!

VAM

I've been learning from some of you for the past 5 years so I'll playball as well. I'm a 32 year old physician, internal medicine by training in East Tennessee. Father is my senior partner. Big Vol fan, spent 1/3 of my life there with education. Married to the most wonderful woman in the world and expecting our first child, a daughter, any day now. I got the bug while in college after taking my fathers 25 year old marantz receiver and hooking up Bose towers. My "audio habit" was my counselor through medical school. I find audio lovers are extremely helpful/knowledgable folks and enjoy the forums greatly. Hope to inspire my daughter to love music!!

My given name is Ross and Kabir is all of us whom i wish one day to know.
I'm a 54 year old married, grumpy plumber who spends way too much time for a non drinker to have his head in a toilet. I choose to work for a company rather than for myself because i have never had an employer i liked so why in the hell would i work for me. Yes, i could make a ton of $$$ but then i would not have the time to enjoy the music. Plumbing for yourself is 24/7.
Since 1974 I've been engaged in Sant Mat mysticism through the guidance of a mentor from India whom i've had the good fortune of spending time with over the last 34 years.
My journey as an audiophile has been as long as my journey as a stumbling mystic.
Listening pleasure revolves around 40s to 70s American jazz, Scandinavian ,European folk and jazz, world music and chamber music; don't forget my roots, rock. When it comes right down to it, I'm open to just about anything except... I think I'll stop there before i make any more enemies.
I listen through a Marantz SA11s2, passive pre., Rouge 150s, Galo Ref.3 system.
Thanks for your time and yes I struggle with writing and spelling which brings me asking this question, how do you access spell check when you are on this site?

I am an obnoxious reclusive Jewish mystic (read kabbalist), visual artist, and sort-of writer. I listen to about 8 hours of music a day. About 2 of those hours I REALLY concentrate on it. When I do that, its vinyl all the way on my Linn LP12.
Some favorites are Cecil Taylor, Arvo Part, JS Bach, Blind Lemon Jefferson, John Cage, John Coltrane, Morton Feldman, Francois Couperin, Orlando Gibbons, The Grateful Dead, Blind Willie Johnson, and Steve Reich.

I'm going to be 50 this year. I first became interested in good music when I got turned on to classic rock when I was in the 11th grade. Up to that point I listened to top 40, which looking back did have some great stuff that I still enjoy. But the Grateful Dead took sound reproduction very seriously and I suppose this rubbed off on me. But it wasn't until I was in the military in my early 20's and saw some great equipment in an on-base electronics store in Japan that I really became intrigued with stereo gear. I didn't have the money to buy anything at that time. When I got out in the mid 1980's I bought a Yamaha integrated amp, CD player, and Genesis Physics speakers. I was hooked. My first foray into high-end territory came in the early 1990's, with Magnepan 1.5qr speakers, Arcam Delta 290 integrated, and California Audio Labs delta/alpha transport and processor.

Overall, I credit being a Deadhead for getting me interested in the high end.