Thanks Bill ... for your passion and care ... as an audiophile, a moderator and a truly generous person. All of us have benefited from your experience and fascination with the astonishment that the world offers us in audio.
The late
Dr Gizmo said and wrote some things that showed many of us that audio was not just an arcane enthusiasm. He approached it from the point of view of being a connection to nature — the astonishment of living in a universe of infinite possibility — a place where we could grasp some of the beauty. All the wiring and soldering, experimentation — and indeed the sharing — were all a part of this. And, I've not forgotten that he said some courage was often involved.
I've thought about this a lot. And sometimes when I sit in front of a mess of wires and stuff I barely if at all understand, I remember this notion. When I say,
what the hell am I doing this for?
Why struggle?
Why not just rent a DVD and watch the latest movie blah blah? Then I switch on the iron ... and ... maybe I sort of get it. Dr Gizmo said that while we were constructing audio, many of us were reporting back to a Neolithic experience. Well, this may certainly be ridiculed by many. But his idea was that we were making tools to do something in life that we needed. We were, in a way, '
wired' to to do stuff.
Well ... I do not want to wonder too far, Bill. I just wanna say
yes on your exhortation that life, sound, listening is a miraculous blessing. And an atheist should find no trouble with
this!
Thanks ... Thol/strieb/lorne/ Lorne ... depending on the forum
