While not a noob at life, I'm a relative noob to my stereo. (My first amplifier was a SONY STR-V45; my second (and current) is an NAD 7250 PE, with SONY SS-U610 'monkey coffins'). I have recently taken an interest deeper than "the volume knob", and came across AudioCircle.
Somehow, I ended up in a post that pointed me to the Audio Basics archive.
Huge thanks to Frank for creating it; I'm only up to 1983, and the articles are amazing.
Frank, you've done a huge service to the community.
Kind regards,
Drew