For Lugnut & Barb (Patrick & Barbara Malone)

To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose under heaven.

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A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time of peace, I swear it’s not too late.

(Apologies to the Byrds).

For many years now, Pat Malone has been a good friend to one and all. He has supported both the newbie and the experienced audiophile alike with his knowledge, his honesty, his camaraderie, his warmth and his wit. We have all immensely benefitted from his participation. Whether caring support or a slight barb was needed, it was delivered ... gracefully and intuitively. If we did not know his name, we might call him “Mr. Integrity,” and if not that, then perhaps just “Sir” out of our respect.

For many years now, it has been our time to benefit from Pat. It has been our turn. And now it is a different time. Now it is Pat’s turn ... and Barbara’s turn. It is time that we show Pat some of the support he has so often and generously shown us, and time that we show Barbara how much we appreciate her sharing her beloved Pat with us. And we are glad – no, we are extremely moved – that so many of us recognize what time it is.

What does one do to show a cherished friend how much he means to us? There is no one perfect answer. But it seemed to many of us that one good answer was hopefully to enable Pat to enjoy the music maybe a little bit more than before. So the pieces of a new system, and some other goodies, are now arriving on Pat’s doorstep (excepting that we could never replace Pat’s cherished Linn turntable), which we hope he will enjoy:

Supratek Syrah preamp
Blue Circle BC22 amp
Snell K7 monitors w/ stands
Ridge Street Audio Poiema! interconnects and speaker cables
Shelter 901 cartridge
Proton Tuner
Snell THX subwoofer
Hsu sub amp
Audiopoints for all components

–also–

various LPs
$250 Acoustic Sounds gift certificate
$250 Music Direct gift certificate
more than $1200 in cash

We hope this may bring some added pleasure to Pat's and Barb's days, and we offer our most sincere thanks and deep gratitude to the following people who made this possible:

Steve Dobbins (Vetterone)
Dean Yamasaki (Gunbei)
Robert Schult of Ridge Street Audio
Bob Graffy of Snell Acoustics
Larry Howkins (Cello)
Peter Bongers (peterb)
Skip Pease (Shventus)
Tom Lyons of Star Sound/Audiopoints (Twl)
Scott Campbell (SpiritMan1113)
Cole McKinney (Slate1)
Joe Galbraith (Slipknot)
John McGrogan (jmcgrogan2)
John Woodworth (The_smokester)
Jeff Logan (Jeffloistarca)
Dan Anderson (Danlib1)
Michael Klein (Swampwalker)
Albert Porter (Albertporter)
Oris Newman (Newmanoc)
Toby Earp (tobias)
Jack Sujovolsky (Jsujo)

With warmest regards,
Doug Deacon
Paul Frumkin