Willy O here in Minnesota. Back in 1967 my dad built a pair of Altec Voice of the Theater speakers flush mounted in the wall of our living room. He was a Dentist, but also owned a Jazz Nightclub. I was 12 so I did not know this was an unusually awesome audio system. After college I took job in a small stereo retail shop in Salt Lake City. I worked for several retailers (Including a dealer in LA that carried Spectral Audio and Sound Lab electrostatics 1988-89). And then spent 13 years at Sony where I was in the ES Hi-Fi audio division. Along the way I have owned many cool audio systems including my Spectral DMC-12 pre and DMC-90 amp that brought me back here today. (I had signed up back in 2012 when I owned some giant Von Scweikert speakers, but had not been back in a long time). Now retired and I have a pile of amps. Current speakers are Thiel PCS monitors with subs.
