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How old are you?

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Posted on April 15, 2024 at 08:24:22
Ozzie
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 I will be 65 in a couple of months. I've been into music all my life, ever since hearing oldies on AM radio in the car with dad and hearing my older sister's 45s of Kind of A Drag and Oh Sweet Pea. I grew up with the best of rock between 65 and 75, if I must pick a ten year period. Sorry Justin and Taylor, there won'tbe cover bands of your music in 50 years. Since 1990 I've been more into old jazz, particularly standards. I really can't get into classical. Perhaps too sophisticated for me. Anyhow, it's been a long road to where I am now, mainly using my rig for movies, sports and the old lady's HGTV. How old are you, and give a brief writeup of your journey.

 

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Older than dirt. nt, posted on April 15, 2024 at 10:33:51
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69 - Been a music nerd since age nine ..., posted on April 15, 2024 at 10:47:31
SamA
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 when I first heard The Beatles' I Want to Hold Your Hand 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning on a diner juke box where I accompanied my dad on his morning milk deliveries. Been a music nerd ever since.

First concert I ever saw was either Steppenwolf or Procol Harem on the Wildwood, N.J., boardwalk.

Now at about 5,000 albums (many needle drop transfers) on the PC. I'd say I'm 33 percent rock, 33 percent jazz, 33 percent classical. In that mix is included a fair amount of hard-to-define "world" music.

My nightmare: creating a 10 album desert island package. My brain would melt.

 

RE: 69 - Been a music nerd since age nine ..., posted on April 15, 2024 at 10:59:47
ejk
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 What's a Juke Box ?

 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 15, 2024 at 12:08:55
Brad225
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 71 in a couple weeks.

I remember in junior high finding any single speakers I could. Mounting them to a panel and hooking up wires from some music source. Crossover, what the hell is a crossover?

I would love to hear how bad it really sounded. I was just happy it made any sound.

 

Classical Music, posted on April 15, 2024 at 12:31:21
Inmate51
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 "I really can't get into classical."

I was definitely into classical, and jazz, from grade school, listening to Kuhn's "Symphony For Blues" and Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", Al Hirt, Doc Severinsen, etc. But I'd always had an indifference to "chamber music". You know, trios, quartets, quintets, yada-yada. Until...

As the Tonmeister student in Montreux in 1974, where part of my studies was to record recitals - typically three or four a week. Several of the visiting artists performed Schubert's Quintet in C, Op. 163. Peter Guth on violin, Bruno Giurana or Bruno Pasquier on viola, Dimitry Markevitch on cello, and I don't remember who the other two were. For whatever reason, that evening the light bulb went on, and I've been a chamber music fan ever since.

It could happen to you, too! :)

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67 dammit. I'll just say it it's been a long strange road for me. /nt, posted on April 15, 2024 at 12:41:32
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65 as of earlier this year, posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:11:21
AbeCollins
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 A lot of people have been 'into music' since their childhood but seeking better sound and then being labeled an 'audiophile' often comes much later in life. And then some of us graduate from being bamboozled audiophiles to simply enjoying music with great sound.

I started 'improving sound' around the age of 8 or 9 when I cut the wires to the internal speaker in my AM radio and hooked up a much larger external one.

I grew up on pop, rock, art rock, punk/new wave, alternative, indie rock, blues, Americana, jazz, etc. Classical was never my thing either.



 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:24:37
G Squared
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 60 next year.

Got Kansas Leftoverature and PF DSOTM albums in middle school. Used a hand me down console with detachable speakers. Bought Cerwin Vega 12 in 3 way speakers (with money from my tee shirt printing job) and cut the console speakers off and hooked up the CVs. Followed by a NAD D3020 and a Dual CS 505.

Back then I lived close to Victor's stereo and Audio Consultants in the Chicago suburbs. Hanging out there got me pointed here. I should have spent my time learning about the stock market.
Gsquared

 

71 here. Loved music since too young to remember., posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:28:15
Brian H P
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 Grew up in NYC hearing Dad's mono system: Fisher receiver, Rek-o-Kut turntable, big kit-built Wharfedale corner horn speaker. He listened mostly to classical (records and WQXR), big band swing, and a variety of folk and non-mainstream pop music. I enjoyed it all, kinda took it for granted, but when he brought home the first Joan Baez album, that totally knocked my socks off. Didn't really like any "juvenile delinquent music" until the Beatles hit when I was 11. Then started listening to pop/soul stations on the little Zenith transistor radio he gave me, got into some of the teeny-bop music of the era, then later folk-rock, then later "psychedelic" rock, but never stopped enjoying the "square" music I had heard from infancy.

 

Added a better speaker(s)?, posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:29:01
Ozzie
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 I thought I was the only one to do that wire cutting thing, and spliced better speakers to a radio.

 

Stock market?, posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:32:14
SamA
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 As long as you didn't buy into the DJT shares, you're doing okay.

 

RE: Classical Music, posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:35:28
Ozzie
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 Rhapsody in Blue really turned the classical music scene on it's head. A great piece. The best I heard it live was on the lawn of the library on 40th Street in midtown back in 1994. Marcus Roberts played it with a big band, then did his trio with the youngest Marsalis brother on drums. I can't recall the bassist. The drummer helped me to get Marcus' autograph on my new trio disc. While I have dozens of records signed, that was one of my most memorable.

 

RE: Stock market?, posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:37:31
G Squared
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 The Dow was at $3500 in 1980. I had a friend that was already investing in high school. I lost track of him, but I am certain he is better off "financially" then I am. OTOH he was weird and never had a girlfriend or SO of any kind. So I am not jealous.


Gsquared

 

I tell you what..., posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:40:35
Ozzie
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 The music of our dad's youth was the best. There are reasons they were called Standards. The funny thing is that back in the 60s dad's oldies station music was but 25 to 35 years old. Now hearing the music we dug in the 70s or 60s is 50 snd 60 years old. There is some perspective for Lummy in how old us old codgers are.

 

No girlfriend?, posted on April 15, 2024 at 13:42:06
Ozzie
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 Now you know why he had all that extra money.

 

I'm so old that SS amps weren't invented when I was born (mt), posted on April 15, 2024 at 14:16:01
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 n 1957, Cerwin-Vega introduced the world's first solid state hi-fi component power amplifier.
-Rod

 

67, posted on April 15, 2024 at 15:13:41
E-Stat
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 with a similar music introduction in the early 60s. Definitely like some old Buckinghams stuff.

I really can't get into classical.

Doesn't work for everyone. My path was different. Gateway bands for me were prog rockers like EL&P, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Renaissance and others that used classical themes in their music. From Brahms, Copland, Mussorgksy and Bach to Ginastera - especially the former who were virtuosos with their instruments. Even the Advent loudspeaker brochure I got at 15 mentioned Also Sprach Zarathustra as a bass reference so I bought it. Which is actually a nice tone poem beyond the 2001 theme. What really changed was meeting some folks at a hifi shop when I was 17. Classical demo tracks were more commonly requested for prospects interested in the really high end gear. My love of The Planets started with a doctor who auditioned Acoustats and bought them. And recently enjoyed hearing it twice as the symphony played it as an eclipse thing at the hall but also later at the university. The scale and dynamics can be quite emotional. Two mentors who were reviewers primarily listened to classical so that's mostly what I heard with their (spectacular) systems. And enjoyed attending live performances with them at the ASO and one got me a minor gig there for a Telarc recording of The Firebird. A have quite a collection of John William's movie music with most in high rez 24 bit.

I cannot imagine a world without it being a part.

I like a lot of acoustic folk/new age from labels like Windham Hill and find artists from Bandcamp. I'm good with solo piano and guitar. Enjoy the complexity of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene from my teen years. Have some jazz but struggle with enjoying the older mainstream stuff on a regular basis. Enjoy Astrud Gilberto tunes but can't always be in a Miles Davis or Blue Note in general mood. Similarly, can't seem to enjoy country, rap nor opera. And video concerts really aren't that important either.

 

Opera..., posted on April 15, 2024 at 17:14:52
Inmate51
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 We went to an opera about 25 years ago. Y'all can have it. I understand the idea, and can appreciate the skill and artistry of the performers, but it bores the snot out of me. Give me a great tenor singing some of the arias, and that's fine. Torna a Sorento is a fave of mine. Once upon a time, I even knew the lyrics.

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We are inclusive and diverse, but dissent will not be tolerated.

 

Perhaps oddly to some, but, posted on April 15, 2024 at 17:50:55
E-Stat
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 I do enjoy a range of choral music flavors. The same but different. :)

 

RE: 61; been into music since i was a kid, listening and performing, posted on April 15, 2024 at 19:08:14
Oldbean2
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 My parents had a decent console stereo, hooked me on good sound, and generations of my dad's family have been musicians, occasionally skipping a generation. I still play in a couple ensembles, and I enjoy DIY-ing some of my own stereo gear.

Scary thing? I was in my mid 30s when I started lurking here. I was one of the youngest back then, kind of strange now

Back for a bit again. Ignore me if you like.

 

RE: Too old., posted on April 15, 2024 at 20:15:07
kkak66
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 N/t

 

Hi Kids! nt, posted on April 15, 2024 at 20:31:18
oldmkvi
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Seventy freaking three, posted on April 15, 2024 at 20:32:34
hesson11
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 73 years old and it seems, the leader in the clubhouse so far.

The Fifties and Sixties: Transistor radio: the Four Seasons, the Shirells, Dion and the Belmonts, etc.

Later, the Beatles, Stones, Traffic, etc.

Then college at the University of Florida and a friend said to take a music history course. Professor Marie Henderson, bless her soul, taught me there were things to listen to in music that transcended the ordinary. During the student strike protesting the invasion of Cambodia, hers was among the very few classes that were fully attended. She played a Bach cello piece in honor of her son, serving on Da Nang province. I owe her everything.

Classical music since then. And no looking back. God bless you, Professor Henderson. Many years later, thank goodness, I was able to tell her how much she ment to me.

 

In my 60s for a few more months, posted on April 15, 2024 at 20:47:52
tlea
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 Musical exploration has been fundamental for my entire life and still is. I grew up in Nashville in the 50s/60s/70s, where there was country, bluegrass, Hank, and Elvis. And R&B and hardcore blues via WLAC-AM. I took a diversion to Auburn, AL; sowed some oats in the 70s/80s/90s in San Francisco; and have been enjoying the soundtrack of New Orleans now for 30+ years.

My father was a bebop and post-bop fanatic, and I inherited his record collection which I still play today: Miles, Bird, Mingus, and Trane. Mom was more into opera and symphony, but would swing dance like mad after a drink or two. There was a crazy boho aunt who lived in Italy and hipped me to Stockhausen, Cage, Sun Ra, Monk, and Ornette Coleman. Older brother was a 20 year old college student in '67 and brought the revolution home with him every semester. Older sister was a dancer who worshipped James Brown, Stax, and Motown. And P-Funk, the Wailers, and King Sunny Ade.

To steal a quote from Woody Allen, I suppose you could say I am polymorphously perverse when it come to music: I'm willing to try anything. I think that comes from the potpourri of influences I've had in my musical life. I still try to stay current with what's going on in music. I know it's not for everyone, but I try to keep an open mind.

. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .

 

Wives enable us to get deeper into this hobby, posted on April 15, 2024 at 20:58:39
Luminator
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 When my guy friends were in college in the early-to-mid 1990s, we were...

...subpar to mediocre students. At the time, here in California, I think the gender ratio (in undergrad) was 52% female, 48% male. That was within margin of being 50/50, but still slightly more feminine. But ratios aside, the coeds academically ran circles around us.




If you chose not to be a bitter dude, you could find little pockets, to converse 1-on-1 with a coed. And it was great; unlike with fellow audiophiles, you could talk with the coed on just about any topic. But before broaching those deeper topics, what brought you together? Music.

During or after laundry, you'd go over to her room, and flit an eye at her CDs and/or cassettes. Those albums gave you a little insight into her. If you and she had some of the same albums, great. But you were really curious about the albums you did not have. By borrowing her software, you got to check out new-to-you music.




Or maybe she came over to your college apartment. She would help you swap cables and re-position loudspeakers. She went into your kitchen, threw your housemates' foods together, and all of you got to eat dinner together. And then, back with the stereo, you kicked back, and watched her (she wasn't an audiophile) try to describe what she had heard.

While you, as an audiophile, liked to whip out our jargon and vernacular, you knew things were right, when the coed bobbed to a dance track, crooned to a love song, or got emotional when a breakup song played.




The coeds parlayed their connections and academic excellence into good jobs.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. The girls liked to try new foods. Since they typically did not have large appetites, you got to share their foods, finish leftovers.

And now, the music meant even more. So even if we guys were "meh" at best, the saving grace was that our wives were high achievers and breadwinners. And that enabled us guys to go deeper into high-end audio.

 

About six months older than the last time I answered that question here..., posted on April 15, 2024 at 23:05:42
musetap
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 give or take.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

RE: Older than dirt. nt, posted on April 16, 2024 at 03:36:47
fred
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 83 here

 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 16, 2024 at 04:14:56
dbphd
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 I'll be 88 on the 28th. In my late teens my interest in audio was kindled by a neighbor who had a JBL C34 rear-loaded corner horn, an amp with a separate power supply he designed and built, and a Garrard changer. He played a couple of Capital Full Dimensional Sound LPs. It was a revelation for me. I built a series of speakers that I used with electronic kits I assembled. I haunted the few local audio shops in the western LA area, but unable to buy anything. My first stereo setup was a Marantz 18, AR turntable, and AR3a speakers. I eventually transitioned to a rack of Ayre gear and KEF Reference 1s which I recently downsized to KEF LS60 and a pair of KC62s for music, and Sony HT A9 for HT. I'm keeping an Ayre AX-7e integrated and C5xeMP disc player to use with the Reference 1s. Music preference has always been classical and jazz, now tending ever more to chamber.

 

Classical & '60s Folk got me into music listening, posted on April 16, 2024 at 04:25:42
Feanor
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 'Till my last year of college I really did pay much attention to music. I think it was a friend who got me listening to Baez, Dylan, Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot and the like.

Classical music began to engage me about the same time ...

True story: On the bus coming home from university there were two Jewish ladies talking. One was bragging about "My son, the doctor". Amongst her brags she insisted that her son had become interested in Classical music even though she and his father had never had any interest.

I decide that if her son, the doctor, could learn to enjoy Classical, so could I. I've never looked back. And while I haven't listen to Folk in years, Classical is my go-to music more than ever.

BTW, I'm 79.


Dmitri Shostakovich

 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 16, 2024 at 08:02:54
Don Reid
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 I will be seventy-five in August. When I was six years old my older sister, then twelve, got an LP of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto for her birthday. We had a little all in one box record player the manufacturer laughingly call a HiFi. When I heard the Tchaikovsky concerto something clicked in me. It was the most beautiful exciting thing I had ever heard. I was the weird kid who listened to classical as a teenager when all my friends listened to rock or country. When I was in my twenties my tastes expanded to include almost all music. Nowadays jazz is my favorite, but I also enjoy almost all music except rap and contemporary pop which employs Auto Tune.
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.

 

I'm on my 18th bottle of Tobasco sauce nt, posted on April 16, 2024 at 08:24:37
www.records
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 Nt

 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 16, 2024 at 09:47:11
Donivey
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 75 here. Loved music since I was about 8yo, listening to AM radio. If I held my head just right, I could pick up a really great AM station in Fort Wayne, Indiana. All we heard in NC was Beach music, and Soul. Ah, but then the Sixties came along!

 

62, posted on April 16, 2024 at 09:50:11
Hyfi
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 Been involved in some way as far back as I can remember. My oldest brother would build Heathkits, Haflers, and Dynacos on the kitchen table after dinner and my other brother has several sets of ARs and would put the electronics to test. Oldest brother also helped David Hafler tweak some of his kits when he was in Pensauken NJ. I have 5 systems about the house.

 

66, posted on April 16, 2024 at 09:52:39
Goober58
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 My favorite LED colors are orange and green.

I don't have a favorite decade of music.

 

Old enough to know Dave Pogue can drop by here at any moment..., posted on April 16, 2024 at 12:29:00
musetap
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 put things in perspective, AND continue to impress
with his continued interests and enthusiasm with this
hobby, amongst other things.

Dude is one of my AA heroes.








"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

I forgot (nt), posted on April 16, 2024 at 15:48:34
Byrd69
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Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)

I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)

Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)

Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)

 

RE: Old enough to know Dave Pogue can drop by here at any moment..., posted on April 16, 2024 at 17:25:11
David McGown
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 Unfortunately, I have some sad news about Dave Pogue. He passed on April 3, just a few weeks short of his 95th birthday. I saw him last at the beginning of January, and he was doing OK, but was having a rough time the past few weeks. He will be missed by both his local and online audiophile community, I was fortunate to be a friend over 20 years, and spent many hours over at his home listening to his system, including 78 RPM records and reel-to-reel tapes on his beloved Otari.

David

 

He and I exchanged posts on the 2nd....I'm stunned, RIP Dave Pogue...., posted on April 16, 2024 at 18:27:30
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 Dave was here from nearly the beginning of the Asylum and always a wise gentleman. I'll miss him.

Here's an obit, linked below.

-Rod

 

Sad news. RIP Dave. (nt), posted on April 16, 2024 at 18:38:52
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

71, posted on April 16, 2024 at 20:07:08
Mr Steed
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95? , posted on April 16, 2024 at 21:03:08
Wojciech
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 No way I'm going to suffer this idiotic hobby that long. RIP Dave, you always sounded just a little older than 25 and don't take it the wrong way. It's a complement.Godspeed buddy!

 

Just turned the big Five - Oh , posted on April 16, 2024 at 21:32:57
Rzado
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 Frightening to think I have been reading / posting on this site for almost half my life.

 

Damn..., posted on April 16, 2024 at 22:41:27
musetap
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 Well, the Spirit of Dave Pogue made the thread.

Always appreciated his wit and wisdom here and he'll remain a true AA hero.

May he Rest in Peace.

Thank you for letting us know.


"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

Very sad ... a huge contributor to the hifi hobby, posted on April 17, 2024 at 03:54:36
Feanor
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 Passings are sad at any age.

As for age, I'm 79 now and 95 seems pretty unlikely for me.


Dmitri Shostakovich

 

RE: Old enough to know Dave Pogue can drop by here at any moment..., posted on April 17, 2024 at 06:07:08
David McGown
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 It was great that Dave was fully cogent until the end, (posting on 4/2!), and could still enjoy this hobby and music until he became too frail and exhausted. I was fortunate and tremendously honored that he came over to my house to hear my system with some friends in December of last year, reportedly his first audio outing since pre-Covid. He really lived for and LOVED this hobby and the friends who shared his enthusiasm. He will be greatly missed.

 

Sad news, posted on April 17, 2024 at 08:08:22
E-Stat
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 He was a great example of how the love of music can carry throughout your life.

 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 17, 2024 at 13:15:01
posaune32foot@gmail.com
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 I'm 71 and have been into audio and music my entire life. My first piano teacher was a Fisher dealer. Loved every minute of it. My vision isn't so crisp but my hearing is nearly perfect. My vinyl collection has taken over 3 rooms of the house. In order of preference: Classical, New Age, Jazz, Real classic country, and weird nerdy stuff.

 

RE: Old enough to know Dave Pogue can drop by here at any moment..., posted on April 17, 2024 at 13:28:09
double28
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 We are all fortunate to have known Dave. I met him at a Muzik Mike's Ribfest numerous years ago that was attended by many fine AA members. I think Batman and I are the only ones left still participating on AA.

 

Kids... , posted on April 18, 2024 at 14:59:55
Victor Khomenko
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 I try to set my clock by my dad, who celebrated his 107th birthday last month. His mind is crystal clear and he reads without glasses.

I have friends still working productively in their eighties, one guy being 89.


 

Are you two still debating..., posted on April 18, 2024 at 15:17:03
Ozzie
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 78 vs 33 1/3?

 

Talk about difficult childhood, posted on April 18, 2024 at 15:42:03
Victor Khomenko
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 College... heh?

I was very unfortunate to be hooked on classical since I remember myself. This was perhaps the only good thing about the communist regime - their radio played almost exclusively classical, so by the age of six I could hum some very serious stuff... without knowing what it was, but the melodies were all there in my head... still are.

It helped that the same music played in all 9 rooms of our communal apartment - there was no other source.


 

CBC FM used to play exclusively Classical year ago, posted on April 19, 2024 at 04:05:28
Feanor
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 (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)

That started to change 35 years ago. Increasingly popular music was introduced to the programming but there is still about 6 hours of week-day Classical eclectic programming on CBC Radio Two.

CBC Listen has 18 pre-programmed Classical channels, (see link), but you have to be in Canada (or use VPN) to listen.

In general CBC programming is excellent.


Dmitri Shostakovich

 

Looks like this forum could die out next week ....., posted on April 20, 2024 at 21:44:29
Billy Wonka
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Joined: April 25, 2013
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  Since: October 15, 2013
 Kind of scary. I'm 75.5 and remember Eisenhower accepting his first term nomination at the convention on television. Then there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's last ride in a convertible, and Vietnam (I got a participation ribbon for that!).

My first rock 45 was Bill Hayley's "Rock Around The Clock". I was attached to popular classical until the mid-60s when the Brit Invasion wrestled me away along with the sweet young things of high school. Cream, Hendrix, and Led Zepplin kept my head bobbing for the longest. Later, electronica carried me away. I can no longer listen to '70's rock on the radio.



 

Stock Market, posted on April 21, 2024 at 07:14:00
Inmate51
Industry Professional

Posts: 2368
Location: Dallas, TX
Joined: August 12, 2022
 Yeah, too bad that neither of us bought Apple in the '80s. ;)

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RE: How old are you?, posted on April 25, 2024 at 12:46:54
mrz80
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Posts: 12
Location: Southeast
Joined: March 19, 2008
 I'm pushing 60. 60's pushing back. This fall.

I grew up in this environment. As a kid I used to wonder why none of my friends' parents' hi-fis didn't have their names on 'em. Some of the first music I remember listening to was classical. My first records included a box set of Beethoven Symphonies by the Berlin Phil conducted by Von Karajan in the years before he became the soulless automaton we all knew and hated.

Tho I never acquired his taste for opera, I learned to love classical music from my granddad. Dad lured me into jazz and playing guitar, courtesy a cheap classical he'd picked up on an Italian street corner for $10 in the 1950s.

Fun anecdote: when I graduated high school my granddad (purveyor, for those who don't know me, of various flavors of equipment distinguished by stainless, black glass, and big blue wattmeters) took me out shopping for a graduation gift at a local music establishment. I asked for, and duly received, a Boss OD-1 (the start of my GAS, to be sure). On our way out he asked me what it did. I told him it simulated the sound of an overdriven tube amp. He lit into me: "I spent my entire career designing distortion OUT of amplifiers and now you buy a little yellow box to put it back IN?!?!?!"

The Old Man(tm) cordially disliked rock music, tho he never got tired of telling the story of how the Dead's sound engineers showed up on his doorstep one Saturday morning desperate to buy a half dozen MC-2300s right off the factory floor for the Watkins Glen show after 5x more people showed up than they were expecting!

I'm amazed at how far the technology of music production and reproduction has come, tho I think I'm relieved granddad didn't live long enough to see how subjective and over-the-top the industry he helped birth has become. $5,000/meter for speaker cables? Snake oil, he'd mutter, before referencing the math-laden talks Gordon Gow would give about what goes on in audio cables. (I attended one such Gow lecture where he conceded *some* value to Monster Cable - he was a short fellow, so he gave the talk whilst standing on a spool of the stuff!)

Seriously though, I think it's great how much capability for how little money I can cram into a 12U rack and a computer in my home studio. I'm having a ball learning the ins and outs of digital synthesis and audio recording. I also love the fact that I can keep my entire music collection at my fingertips, ready to play on the stereo in the family room, the car, the laptop, the office, wherever, without having to muck about with physical media.


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Network geek with a strong affinity for Telecasters and Les Pauls

 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 27, 2024 at 07:02:50
mklarson
Audiophile

Posts: 14
Location: NE
Joined: April 27, 2024
 67 in a couple of months. Have gone from 45's to blue tooth and still have everything in between except 8 tracks and reel to reel.

 

RE: How old are you?, posted on April 27, 2024 at 17:25:56
highendfan
Audiophile

Posts: 164
Location: Ontario
Joined: March 6, 2009
 75 in August 2024. Music is life.

 

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