What's your profession? Age?

52 year old music educator who has been collecting 78's, LPs, and CDs his whole life. Have just committed 16k to my new & used audio equipment purchases over the last 3 months; Space-Tech QA-115 Tube pre-amp; Space-Tech VP-105 Tube amp; Linn Sondek LP12 turntable; Sony SACD 777ES CD Player; Space-Tech DA64X-T Tube D/A Converter; Dynalab Magnum MD-90 Tuner; Sonus Faber Signum speakers; REL Stadium III subwoofer; Monster MTS-5100 Power Conditioner; VPI 16.5 record cleaning machine and soon to purchase a Sistrum rack. This is a big step for me from my last piece of audio equipment purchased in 1988.Fortunately my wife hasn't left me and still seems to be supportive of my audio endeavors.

Great choice on the Space-Tech-Lab equipment!

Veterinarian, age 43
Invested at Retail for HT and 2 Ch about 22K.
Really just completing my first "almost hifi" system in past 15 yrs.

I'm a student at Penn State (Jr.) who is 20 years old.

I've worked in FirstEnergy Nuclear's engineering department the last 2 summers and will return this summer to fuel my audio addiction. My system is currently at ~$3k, but will probably undergo more upgrades this summer.

Another year until I get a real job - then the audio disease will become terminal... now where to find the real job?...

I'm a 20 year old student at University of Waterloo in Canada and have made my ~$3500 system through some damn hard work in competetive swimming. Just started getting obsessed this year now that I'm out of residence. I just hope I can get into med school in the coming years so I can appreciate this hobby even more. I keep trying to upgrade small things here and there but then always end up spending my cash on new music. I'm sure this is not an uncommon problem.

Keith