Audiophile Staff


Years ago I read an article about Malcolm Forbes where he talked about his extensive motorcycle collection and how he had two full time staff people to perform maintenance and upkeep on the bikes. In addition to salary the staff people could ride any of his bikes and frequently accompanied him on motorcycle tours. Not a bad gig if you're into motorcycles.

I'm wondering if anybody on Audiogon has a dedicated audiophile equivalent of Forbes' assistants, someone to perform the tedious tasks required by this hobby? Cleaning sockets, biasing tubes, tightening driver bolts, schlepping around large amps, supervising the delivery of half ton loudspeakers, keeping track of available mods and updates, etc.

Personally, I have a dog that wags its tail when I go towards the equipment rack, but I'm just wondering about other people's lifestyles. Happy Holidays!
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I'm afraid I've never had to think about such problems...

The first poster does have it right, judging from his articles now and from the past Harry Pearson has always had someone to help him with setting up and maintaining his systems.
If one does not have time to fiddle with the system, do you imagine that they take the time to frequent audiogon?
Ghostrider, As I remember the guy was Chinese and had examples of all the best turntables, all kept running all the time. I think he had more than 1 person maintaining the system.

I can't see the point, but I suppose if you have oodles of bling, it has to be maintained by someone.