RichPA
08-04-2007, 07:49 AM
Been reading the cool threads in this section and thought I’d chime in myself. I’m 51, and in so-called real life, I’m an administrator/professor at Penn State University. I’ve been on AK more than 2 ½ years, and it sure feels like home.
I listen to almost all kinds of music, but mostly classical, jazz, prog rock (old and new), singer-songwriter/Americana, classic rock, world music, and … well, you get the idea. No Broadway, and only a little opera, but just about anything else. One of the best things about AK has been finding out about new-to-me music from many of the other members – even when I can’t be listening, I’m a big fan of the x-day’s Playlist threads. Kind of amazing sometimes to realize that I have been listening to some of the same music for almost 40 years, and there’s so much left to hear. When I occasionally read somewhere (usually not here) that “there’s no good new music” I think they just aren’t looking very hard. I do miss browsing in great record stores, but fortunately the internet is here to feed my addiction (with more than a little help from my AK friends).
I’m a digital-phile, and have put a lot of effort into getting digital to sound right. My current main system is a Theta Miles CD player, Behringer digital EQ, Bel Canto DAC3 running directly into a Bryston 3B-SST driving Newform Research R645 ribbon-hybrid speakers. I do have a Pioneer tuner (I’m addicted to analog tuners and dacs, and typically have too many of both) and a Rotel turntable in that system, but CD and internet radio via a Roku Soundbridge get the vast majority of the playing time. I’m also fond of system #2, a Redgum CD player that I won at the Fest, playing through a Rotel preamp and a Dynakit ST-35 tube amp that I built from a kit last year, with ACI Sapphire III speakers. My office system consists of various stuff that mostly started in one of the other systems, and changes pretty often, but right now is a Marantz CD-110, Sherwood S-2400/S-9400 integrated amp/tuner and Ohm Microwalsh speakers. I’m fortunate to have a wonderful wife (of more than 20 years) who is very tolerant of stereo gear (and frequent changes), and who is into music and good sound almost as much as I am.
It has been great meeting many of you at the last couple of AK Fests, and I look forward to meeting more of you at the next one. I’ve made some very good friends here, and look forward to making more.
I listen to almost all kinds of music, but mostly classical, jazz, prog rock (old and new), singer-songwriter/Americana, classic rock, world music, and … well, you get the idea. No Broadway, and only a little opera, but just about anything else. One of the best things about AK has been finding out about new-to-me music from many of the other members – even when I can’t be listening, I’m a big fan of the x-day’s Playlist threads. Kind of amazing sometimes to realize that I have been listening to some of the same music for almost 40 years, and there’s so much left to hear. When I occasionally read somewhere (usually not here) that “there’s no good new music” I think they just aren’t looking very hard. I do miss browsing in great record stores, but fortunately the internet is here to feed my addiction (with more than a little help from my AK friends).
I’m a digital-phile, and have put a lot of effort into getting digital to sound right. My current main system is a Theta Miles CD player, Behringer digital EQ, Bel Canto DAC3 running directly into a Bryston 3B-SST driving Newform Research R645 ribbon-hybrid speakers. I do have a Pioneer tuner (I’m addicted to analog tuners and dacs, and typically have too many of both) and a Rotel turntable in that system, but CD and internet radio via a Roku Soundbridge get the vast majority of the playing time. I’m also fond of system #2, a Redgum CD player that I won at the Fest, playing through a Rotel preamp and a Dynakit ST-35 tube amp that I built from a kit last year, with ACI Sapphire III speakers. My office system consists of various stuff that mostly started in one of the other systems, and changes pretty often, but right now is a Marantz CD-110, Sherwood S-2400/S-9400 integrated amp/tuner and Ohm Microwalsh speakers. I’m fortunate to have a wonderful wife (of more than 20 years) who is very tolerant of stereo gear (and frequent changes), and who is into music and good sound almost as much as I am.
It has been great meeting many of you at the last couple of AK Fests, and I look forward to meeting more of you at the next one. I’ve made some very good friends here, and look forward to making more.