Have you recently lost a close audiophile buddy? What has it taught you?

I understand fellas. Rich Red it was nice getting to meet up with you at lone star Audio fest. My buddy was hit with pneumonia and went in about 5 weeks. It was crazy. One day he was getting better then boom. Crazy as hell though.  Let out this huge yahooooooo when the music got too good for him.  Crazy as hell. I,was the only one that could put up with him.  Help,put our systems together.  Told me about my speaker.  Great audiophile. Would push me and my friend bill to always try more gear. Would listen with me and Bob for 9 hours straight some days. Great music discovery constantly.  I’ve learned to enjoy the music and not over obsess on equipment.  Fellas enjoy your system. You never know,when the music will stop!

I remember david Baskin from design audio video in whitehouse Texas. He had Lou Gehrig’s disease.  He was dying but he had a speaker bucket list. He had raidho, solutions, accuphase, Sonus faber, Lumin, dynaudio. He had the best system I’ve ever heard in my life.  600k system. Home listening cottage in the back of his house.  Wow! He enjoyed his final 5 years listening to the best then he died. He and Charles were friends and little did I know they would both be gone within 10 months of each other. Audiophiles are different.  We are unique.  We are hard to replace.  

Man y’all just enjoy the music sometimes we equipment chase too much. We have to enjoy the music and brotherhood. 

I remember the last listening session I had with Dave and Charles.   When the music got good Charles would let out a big yahooooooooo and Dave could only move his hands on one arm and his whole left side couldn’t move because of Lou Gehrig’s so he would just lean back and roll his head and neck when the music got too good.  They both did this that last time while I was bobbing my head. A black Chicago dude with a black texas dude in a white east Texas guys house zoning out to jazz.  Music truly brings us together. If someone walked in they would have sworn we were in a cult.  Lol.  

Wayne this summer is tough. We used to listen here in Texas and stay out the heat. I remember once every 3 weeks we would have 6 to 8 hours listening sessions. We would talk about life music god etc. Very few understand our hobby and brains for the music!