Thank you to all the greeters.
To JLM: Not much of a story. I was briefly exposed to hifi while visiting a distant uncle (a piano tuner) who had a pair of Klipschorns in a tiny room (I could nearly touch both at the same time) wall to wall with LPs and tape reels. I was impressed, but he didn't share my teenage taste in Black Sabbath, Budgie, or Pink Floyd.
A few years after that, I helped a friend who was the engineer at a radio station relocate their studio and was paid with four Acoustic Research AR7 speakers (the old studio's monitors) and I discovered Mingus, John Mayall, and many others.
Then life happened and the majority of it was not HiFi.
Maybe 14-15 years ago I built a pair of Zigmahornets (Fostex FE103 fullrange) while lurking on diyaudio.com and hooked them up to a Sonic Impact T Amp. That was enjoyable.
Then more life happened--and just lately I realized I have 24GBs of music on my computer that only gets listened to on my computer's builtin speakers (or a pair of cheap headphones) and here I am, researching my ass off.
The fruit of my research is: a pair of ELAC Debut 2.0 B6.2 bookshelf speakers acquired on Thursday (currently loosening up with an underpowered T amp), the impending arrival of a PS Audio Sprout 100, and my wife is asking, "when we can get a turntable?"
I've been binge listening to all sorts of things since I got the ELACs on Thursday. Sadly, not all of my ripped CDs sound amazing, but some do.
Currently listening to Cowboy BeBop (OST) (Yoko Kanno is the bomb).
And, for the record, Leonard Cohen's, "You Want It Darker" & Chet Baker's, "Chet" do sound amazing on these speakers even without a proper amp or room treatments.
