How old are you?

bobo2006 ...

• "I have been studying this forum for the last 6 months and am blown away by the wealth of information available."

Welcome to A'gon. Hanging around this site, and participating in it, is far, far better than trying to glean honest information from the various audio magazines. Finding them to be a big waste of time, and an unneeded expense, I no longer subscribe to any of them. As a bonus, you can make some good friends here. 

Frank

bobo2006, Welcome to the new Golden Age of audio. In the first one we had a lot of obvious stuff like better amps and speakers going on. In this one things are a lot more ephemeral, to the point it is hard to say or even sometimes understand what is going on.

In this one you can literally take all your old stuff and make it sound so much better than anyone back then could even dream of, and all by doing things hardly anyone back then could even imagine. Spring isolation platforms, little doo-dads called HFT, ECT and PHT, all kinds of wire and electric field control products, on and on.

Who ever would have dreamed you could significantly improve the sound by wiping a microscopic amount of goo around on a spade lug? Improve detail and presence with a tiny strip of tape? It is just nuts what we can do today, to the point Frank can sit in his trailer and hear music the envy of many cost no object systems and rooms.

You won’t be reading much about this in Stereophile. We are all over it here though! Welcome!

I'm 68.
The mind still thinks I'm 29.

ozzy

54 going on 14.

I’m a 63 year old who started playing the piano at 6 and then the violin at 8. I switched to playing the stereo at 19 my first electronic device being a used Kenwood receiver and a pair of 3 way boxes set up in my dorm room. That was 1977.  Cassettes and 8 tracks, Star Wars and Jimmy Carter.  Life was …interesting.