I'm retired too, from teaching - psychology, hence the name - at a community college in the San Joaquin Valley in central CA, but now happily living in Santa Barbara. My interest in audio goes back to the 50s and I built Dynakits in the early 60s, the same period when I got the AR turntable I still use, but with a Mayware unipivot arm in place of the original. Most of my listening is classical music, not HT, which may be why I like Magneplanar speakers so much, plus the Yaqin tube buffer that's my latest audio acquisition.