Introduce Yourself...
Demiurge
Posts: 10,874
This may be a dumb idea, but for a person like me, who hasn't met any of you it doesn't hurt. Plus there are folks on this forum who don't post much who may feel a little scared to mix it up on some of the threads here.
Name: Dave
Age: 24
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Marital Status: Single (Dating my future wife!
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Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: Football, Guitar, Reading, Archery, Marksmanship, Duck Hunting, Trap Shooting, Paintballing, Gaming, and Politics.
Career: I'm currently working with my father as I have been for the past 6 years. He owns a manufacturing company and we are a leader in the Material Handling, House & Building Moving, and Heavy Machinery Moving equipment manufacturing industry.
I personally welded/made the machinery used to move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Cape Hatteras, NC.
Name: Dave
Age: 24
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Marital Status: Single (Dating my future wife!
)Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: Football, Guitar, Reading, Archery, Marksmanship, Duck Hunting, Trap Shooting, Paintballing, Gaming, and Politics.
Career: I'm currently working with my father as I have been for the past 6 years. He owns a manufacturing company and we are a leader in the Material Handling, House & Building Moving, and Heavy Machinery Moving equipment manufacturing industry.
I personally welded/made the machinery used to move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Cape Hatteras, NC.
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- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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I like this idea. I've been trolling around these forums for some time now (though I don't post too often) but am pretty curious whose comments I'm continually reading....
Name: Bob
Age: 24
Location: Everett, MA (near Boston)
Marital Status: Single...
Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: Football (esp Patriots... I've missed two home games in the last 3 years
), Computers, cars, motorcycle (i own a 1981 yamaha), travel
Career: Work for a small computer company, we produce compact computers mostly used in defense applications.If you will it, dude, it is no dream. -
Name: Steve
Age: 42
Status: Married
Location: Sierra Vista, Arizona (65 miles south of Tucson)
Interest: Motorcycling; guns/shooting; hiking/camping; computers
Brief Bio: Originally from Saint Louis, Mo. Ended up in Arizona after 2 assignments here in the US Army. Desert Storm veteran and currently retired from the Army but working Federal Service as a civilian for the Department of Defense.Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2 -
Name: Russman Von Pootenberg
Age: 388 Months
Hit Points: 176
Dexterity: 229
Location: Tejas
Career: Drunken Boxing
Hobbies: Everything audio, huffing paint, ladies undergarments, aeresol cheeseCheck your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service. -
"aeresol cheese" LOL!!!!!!Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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Name: Codey
Age: 24
Location: Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Marital Status: Single but living with future wife
Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: American muscle cars, paintballing, scuba diving, archery, fourwheeling, gaming (xbox live is great!) and metal fabrication.
Career: I've been working on a commercial trawler for 10 years. But this is the off season so I'm currently getting my education so I can persue a career in law enforcement.
Hey Demiurge, looks like we have a fair bit in common.
Outlaw 950
GFA-555
GFA-545
GFA-2535
RTi8s
CSi5
FXi3s
214L Vented Tempest
250w BASH amp
Toshiba HDA1
Toshiba 44" DLP
NAD 533 Turntable
Tripplite HT3100
Xbox 360 -
Name: Rob
Age: 32
Location: Northern Virginia
Marital Status: Married w/children
Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: Photography, cinematography, fast motorcycles, home improvement, survival.
Career: I am a military/war correspondent/photographer for the largest newspaper company in the USA. I've covered US military operations in Mozambique, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and exercises in about 80 other countries and US states. It beats serving fries.
Most often heard comment: "Whoa, that's a pretty big lens!" Almost always followed by a snicker.Yamaha RX-V1500 // Outlaw Audio M200 (x2) Panasonic TH-52PZ700U
Sony DVP-NS715P // Sony Playstation3 // Roku Soundbridge M1000[/color]
Polk LSi15 (w/Monster Z2 Wire) // Polk LSiC // Polk LSi7 // Velodyne DLS-3500
Workshop Rig: Creek 4330 // Technics SL-P310 // Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble 2 -
Name: Dave Shepard
Age: 35
Location: West Middlesex, Pa
Marital Status: Married (12yrs I think :eek: )
Interests outside of audio: gun collecting, hunting, target
shooting
Career: Autobody tech, Landscape curbing business, snow
plowing
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Originally posted by RuSsMaN
Name: Russman Von Pootenberg
Hit Points: 176
Dexterity: 229
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Name: Doug Gilbert
Age: 45
Location: Spend part of the month in Northern IL (live in Belvidere, work in Schaumburg) and part of the month on the family farm in Central IA
Marital Status: have significant other (most days at least!)
Interests outside of audio: guns, shooting, hunting, woodworking
Career: Marketing and Product Management, small business doing woodworking, antique restoration, interior remodeling, Marketing consulting in the firearms and hunting related industriesDKG999
HT System: LSi9, LSiCx2, LSiFX, LSi7, SVS 20-39 PC+, B&K 507.s2 AVR, B&K Ref 125.2, Tripplite LCR-2400, Cambridge 650BD, Signal Cable PC/SC, BJC IC, Samsung 55" LED
Music System: Magnepan 1.6QR, SVS SB12+, ARC pre, Parasound HCA1500 vertically bi-amped, Jolida CDP, Pro-Ject RM5.1SE TT, Pro-Ject TubeBox SE phono pre, SBT, PS Audio DLIII DAC -
Name: Greg Morris
Age: 27
Location: Akron, Ohio
Marital Status: Engaged, living with fiancee. Wedding is August 20'th, 2005.
Interest outside of audio: my dog, the American Bulldog, currently 70 lbs. of trouble. Weightlifting/bodybuilding. I competed in and won the Lightweight & Novice categories at the 2003 ONBF Mr. Natural Ohio contest on October 18'th, 2003, and finished 3'rd in the overall.
Career: My current title is Assosciate Designer. I work for a die casting foundry in Cleveland. I use Pro/E CAD software to design parts & die cast tooling.Bob Mayo, on the keyboards. Bob Mayo. -
Name : J-F (Jean-Francois)
Edit : Age : 29
Location : Ottawa Ontario
Marital status : Married for 3 yrs
Interest outside of HT : my 6yr old dogder (she is our daughter) , Willow a miniature american eskimo. Wine, cars.
Carrer: Underwriting and issue dept for a major insurance company. -
Man we've got some serious celebs around here. Alot of gun enthusiast as well, cool. I was a marksmanship trainer for the M16, M1911-A1 and M9. I miss that stuff.Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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Name: James
Age: 27
Location: Know in York, PA recently moved from Dallas, TX. Grew up in Western Colorado and went to school in Golden
Marital Status: Back in Texas
Interests outside of audio: woodworking, golf, hiking, rock climbing, training Mica
Career: Consulting engi-nerd specializing in production scheduling and supply chain logisticsThere is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin -
Name: Troy
Age: 27
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Marital Status: Married for 1 year
Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: Watching Ohio State Football, drinking beer and working on our house. I ran cross country and track in college but can't do much running anymore thanks to my back surgery. tried to learn to play guitar but gave up, am going to try again soon...
Career: Actuarial analyst for an insurance company. I'm the statistics geek behind those damn auto and home insurance rates. Thinking of going back to school to get my MBA...Sony KDL-40V2500 HDTV, Rotel RSX-1067 Receiver, Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray, Slim Devices Squeezebox, Polk RTi6, CSi3 & R15, DIY sub with Atlas 15 -
Name: Landry Perrin
Age: 32
Location : Memphis, TN
Marital Status : Single, (living with fiance' in new home:D ) wedding summer 2005.
Interest outside of H/T include: Guns (esp. 40 S&W), art and comic sketching and drawing, rookie airbrush artist, football, basketball, and gaming.
Carrer: Currently have been working customer service/furniture repair for 5 Years.Main Set-up: 55" 120 hz Samsung LN55B650, Onkyo TX-SR806, Emotiva XPA-5, Emotiva XPA-2, PS3 Slim, Sony BDP-S560, Apple TV (160g), Panamax M5300-PM, Polk Audio CSi5, RTi10's, FXi3's, RTi4's, and SVS PB12 Plus
Bedroom: Panasonic 50" S2 Plasma and Panasonic BD65 blu-ray player, Onkyo TX-SR707, Emotiva XPA-3, Emotiva UPA-2, KEF IQ7's, IQc, IQ8Ds, and SVS PB10-ISD -
Name: Anthony Mulford
Age: 37
Location: Woolwich Twp., NJ
Marital Status: Single, shacked up
Interests outside of audio: Building stuff (you name it, wood, steel, pipe...), reading a good book, cooking, yard work (I have so much of it, I've trained myself to like it MOST of the time)
Career: Union Pipefitter, Local Union 322 of the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters and Associated Trades -
Keith Allen (37)
Bethlehem,GA.
born in raised in southeast Fla.
Married 16 yrs/one son,15 yo
Work in road construction/asphalt design,and quality control
Interest outside audio:motorcycling...street and dirt,love vintage Kawasaki's...1973 to 1980 Z models...
engine building for street and drag racing/AMA Prostar...love it!
welding and fabrication
automotive refinishing/custom painting
Saltwater fishing/big game...
College football....GO DAWGS! -
Name: John Stasny Jr
Age: 27
Location: Voorhees, NJ (yeah, I know, I just moved from Magnolia recently)
Marital Status: Married (Recently. That's the reason I just moved)
Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: Cars, computers, lotsa stuff
Career: Graduated Drexel University with a B.S. in Information Systems and Technology. I work as a Systems Administrator/DBA for the largest defense contract out there. I support systems used for development of ship integration systems. Two years ago, I had the opportunity to work on a ballistic missle defense system and was present when history was made with the first ever ballistic missle intercept. Then again, we get to make history every day here. It's a shame I am not at liberty to discuss it.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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Very cool thread.
Reading all the career info, it seems that most of us waste alot of work time on this forum.;)Bob Mayo, on the keyboards. Bob Mayo. -
Name: David
Age: 30
Location: SoCal (born & raised)
Martial Status: Married
Interests outside HT: Photography, Shooting, Guns (glock-fu), Computers, Games, Hiking, Sports, Watching TV, Snorkeling
Career: Sr Unix Systems Administrator at a large healthcare company. Side career: I sell Nascar stuff and gun scopes/accessories/binoculars online
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Name: Michael Hand
Age: 38
Location: Central Il. (Washington to be exact - Peoria if you are looking for me on a map..)
Martial Status: Married (13 years)
Interests outside HT: Photography, Computers, Reading (fantasy), Home Improvement.
Career: Sr. Lan Administrator. (Windows and Novell) Since I work for a small company, that means I am responsible for anything with a cord... Mains.............Polk LSi15 (Cherry)
Center............Polk LSiC (Crossover upgraded)
Surrounds.......Polk LSi7 (Gloss Black - wood sides removed and crossovers upgraded)
Subwoofers.....SVS 25-31 CS+ and PC+ (both 20hz tune)
Pre\Pro...........NAD T163 (Modded with LM4562 opamps)
Amplifier.........Cinepro 3k6 (6-channel, 500wpc@4ohms) -
I personally welded/made the machinery used to move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Cape Hatteras, NC.
That is awesome. How in the world did they move that structure without damageing it?
Main Set-up: 55" 120 hz Samsung LN55B650, Onkyo TX-SR806, Emotiva XPA-5, Emotiva XPA-2, PS3 Slim, Sony BDP-S560, Apple TV (160g), Panamax M5300-PM, Polk Audio CSi5, RTi10's, FXi3's, RTi4's, and SVS PB12 Plus
Bedroom: Panasonic 50" S2 Plasma and Panasonic BD65 blu-ray player, Onkyo TX-SR707, Emotiva XPA-3, Emotiva UPA-2, KEF IQ7's, IQc, IQ8Ds, and SVS PB10-ISD -
Shelby, 24 year old
Currently in Spokane, WA, will be moving to Issaquah (10 miles west of Seattle) in 2 weeks.
Status: Engaged (July 30, 2005)
Interests: Lots of beer, lots of sports, and lots of everything technology.
Career: Pharmacy student. I graduate in May. I have no idea what I want to do when I am done. I am considering going to grad. school but 5 more years of school sounds like too much. -
Name: Henry Navaroli
Age: 39
Location: Lee's Summit MO(funny farm)
Marital Status: Married to Sherry and have 2 great kids Natalia and Santino
Interestes Outside of Audio/HT: Nascar, Football and drinking Beer while enjoying everything else.
Career: wireless engineer***WAREMTAE*** -
Name: Cathy
Age: 43
Location: Boston, MA
Marital Status: Single
Interests Outside of Audio/HT: Reading, computer surfing.
Career: Audit Analyst in Underwriting Dept. for major insurance company.Marantz AV-7705 PrePro, Classé 5 channel 200wpc Amp, Oppo 103 BluRay, Rotel RCD-1072 CDP, Sony XBR-49X800E TV, Polk S60 Main Speakers, Polk ES30 Center Channel, Polk S15 Surround Speakers SVS SB12-NSD x2 -
So, Cathy....
How you doin?Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service. -
Name: Danny (kind of obvious )
Age: 37
Location: Castro Valley, CA....but work in San Francisco.
Marital Status: Single....has girlfriend, but not going well.
Interests Outside of Audio/HT: Web surfing, website design.
Career: Regulatory Analyst for the government. Yes, my handy work is on every Californian's phone bill....and I am the only one in the State doing this job. Looking to make career change since I am not good in math. -
Name: Graham
Age: 22
Location: southern ON
Marital status: single
Interests Outside of Audio/HT: Anything nerdy. Reading, doing homework, speaker building etc. (Now that explains why I'm single) I also play squash, basketball, tennis etc.
Career: I worked for Mercedes and at a Acura dealer as a mechanic. It was a good experience and something I can fall back on. I have a college diploma and will start mechanical engineering at a university next fall.Graham -
I'm just fine Russ. Why do you ask? And how are you?Originally posted by RuSsMaN
So, Cathy....
How you doin?Marantz AV-7705 PrePro, Classé 5 channel 200wpc Amp, Oppo 103 BluRay, Rotel RCD-1072 CDP, Sony XBR-49X800E TV, Polk S60 Main Speakers, Polk ES30 Center Channel, Polk S15 Surround Speakers SVS SB12-NSD x2
