You want an autobiography Jim or is an audiobiography you're after? OK, where I live, we never had cable til 1993 but being a total sports fanatic that I am, I was the first in my local area to have a 12' satellite dish in 1985, top of the line for that day and it's still operating today with 2 analog/digital/high definition decoders. But it's a dying dinasour so i just had a DirecTv Slimline dish with HD DVR for the flood of HD channels that are showing up this year,over 100 by years end. But I degress. I have always been into multiple speakers in my system but it was always mid-fi (read Bose floorstanders) Use to love those Midnight Specials shows when the whole neighborhood would rock cuz I was, them was the days. I did everything I could to have the best picture including ISF-caliberations before they became popular. But it wasn't til I got my BPT 2400watt balanced power conditioner hoping for that little extra in my picture that my world did a 360. Improve my picture it did but what this conditioner did for my mid-fi sound opened my ears and spiraled me into a world of debt. Just 4 years ago it was and all I was listening to was FM if I wasn't watching sports and my only internet connection was a webtv. In just 4 years, thanks in part to AudioCircle, I have what i have now with the heart of my system being a $4500 home theater computer with 2800 albums downloaded and a credit card debt of $35000. I'm 56, single, and I just got fired from my job of 35 years 3 weeks ago. And I've never been happier. I've always said best case scenario would be to die broke and owing thousands of dollars. I've got a good start obtaining my goals,,, As for my system, i can promise you that compression would be the last thing on your mind when listening. What a computer can do for both audio and video boggles the mind. When playing a DVD thru my HTPC, it's like being at the theater and it's basically the same for music. It wasonly a few years ago that no one believed in power conditioning, cryoing, replacing the CDP with a computer. Now everyone's doing it and so have I. Hell my whole system was sent out to Cryogenics International and cryoed, except for my TV. EverythingI've done has contributed to what I listen to now, that being a dead quiet soundstage where the music hangs in the air like you were sitting in the middle of an empty concert hall and the performer is right there in front of you with the sound full of depth & fullness. I can take any 1 thing out of my system and lose that just as quick too so I get a chuckle when someone says they don't need to stinking power conditioning, fresh outta wall is good enough for them. Not me,,,, never me.
Bedtime, see ya,,,,
Robin
