At an early age my son loved to put on my headphones....just like daddy

And they love to turn the dials.

Enjoy !!

This is a very cool thread.
I'm Logistics Manager for an automotive components manufacturer about an hour south of Raliegh NC.From Cincinnati originaly whith numerous stops in between in the US and Europe.
Married with one daughter, one grand daughter, and a grandson due any day now.
I've been into electronics since I was about 12 and my mother, who worked for RCA brought home one of the first stereo systems to be mass marketed.
Great to learn a bit more about you guys.
Hope everyone has a super holiday!

Have either of them found the remote controls yet?

I'm A blue collar guy, a Union Heavy Equipment operator, the formal term is Operating Engineer,Dad Got me hooked on audio early on, He had A scott preamp and Lafayette mono amps and these huge lafayette speakers ,12 inch drivers with a metal horn in the middle of them and garrard turntable and roberts reel to reel. my first nice system was kenwood separates and klipsch heresy's bought in 1984, all of which I still have stored at moms house.

OK.
Going way back. Hooked in high school.
And this dates me.
Turntable: dunno. don't remember.
Amp: Regency (combined preamp and amp)
Speaker: Electrovoice 15 inch TRX

....in those days it was called: "hi-fi"

Oooooooops:
Forgot to mention:
Pentron tape recorder (with the green "magic-eye")
Shure microphone Shure 55S - but the earlier model

I retired a few years ago as a Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent for a local municipality. While employed there, I also set up a number of MS Access database programs (sewer billing, DMR's, pretreatment, etc.). I also work part-time as a commercial fisherman in the summer.

I originally got into audio while stationed in Germany in the 1969. My first set up was a Sansui 2000 receiver, Kenwood speakers, AR turntable (and a lot of vinyl from that period) a TEAC tapedeck (still have everything except the TEAC)...I then moved on to a B&K ST202 amp, Conrad Johnson Sonographe SC22 preamp.....along the way, I've had a Marantz receiver, a NAD integrated amp, numerous CD and DVD players, Aiwa tape decks, several other pieces of NAD (still use a NAD tuner for a bedroom setup)....on and on......I might even have an 8 track somewhere in my basement....

Question for nfaguys: Not trying to out you or anything, but is one of the famous jazz musicians you've helped out the tenor saxist Sonny Rollins? If so, then you and I have spoken on the phone: I interviewed someone from Maine who kinda fits your description a couple years ago for the entertainment weekly I work for. If it's you, I'm doubly glad to discover we're both Outlaws.

I'm sure everyone had guessed that I'm technically challenged. I write about the arts for a living, mostly music (duh!) but also film, books, theater, whatever. Oh, and NRBQLou, I'm quite familiar with No Depression; mentioned it in a freelance piece I did for the leftie weekly The Nation a little bit ago.

I was never into audio as much as music, but I can trace the beginnings of a growing interest in sonic concerns back to a piece I was working on some years ago about the sound quality in nightclubs. It was like a "report card" on NYC venues, and I noticed that the sound in rock clubs was generally substandard (oh hell, just plain wretched) when compared with even the most oddball little jazz spots around town. Still don't really know why it registered then, because by that time I'd spent most of my adult life in performance spaces. (Admittedly, though, it could be the influence of my wife, whom I've said elsewhere in the forum is much more of a sound person than I am.) I should stress that noticing this hasn't made me hate music that's recorded badly—which actually, is way more pop and rock of all stripes than I ever imagined—but it has made me aware of the different tiers of possibility. And boy, have I learned a lot of invaluable nuts-and-bolts stuff from the cats in this forum.

tru blu wrote:

Question for nfaguys: Not trying to out you or anything, but is one of the famous jazz musicians you've helped out the tenor saxist Sonny Rollins?

Don't I wish!! Would have liked to have recorded him. The two that I recorded that I sent to the artists were: The Candolis (Pete and Conte Candoli) - this about 12 yrs ago, recorded Chicago 1983. Also Frank D'Rone, whom I recorded in Chicago 1983.

This one will be available soon thru his website which is Frank D\'Rone website . It is cited on the "News" page. Frank has decided to name it "Falling In Live with Love", which is the name of one of the songs on it. He is, IMHO, one extremely talented person, both singing and on guitar. And also a very nice guy.

Others, recorded, but not issued (and the tapes are "somewhere in boxes after our move to Maine") include Carl Fontana, James Moody, Lionel Hampton, Adam Makovicz, Phil Wilson, Makoto Ozone, Anita O'Day, Clark Terry...and maybe some others. Several recordings were of Northern Illionois Univ Jazs Ensemble with some of these artists.

I'm pretty much "shut down" not since not much to record here in Northern Maine (moose, deer etc???). Also because of this I sold my A#1 best microphone on ebay seveal yrs ago.

So now I listen and enjoy the music.

Just wondering if anyone else out there has had the same passion as I.

great responses, guys. Just wanted to jump back in to wish you a happy holiday. It would seem I'm among the younger in the crowd @ 29 y/o.

I can't really say I grew up with anyone who was really into the hifi scene. But my dad's old technics turntable + technics receiver + paramount (now defunct) full range speakers was all I needed to catch the music bug. I grew up listening to all his original Doors, Beatles, and Zep albums. I thought at the time his system rocked. FFWD a few years and I met my father in law who was the first person I ever knew with B&W speakers and a true passion for both music and HT.

Good stuff!