Just in another place with this hobby.

Hello everyone,
recently had a egg nog bourbon moment in Phil's thread on his new amp he just got. I was reading the back and forth , the questions about if he should be feeling the way he does about his new amp, on and on the thread went and I got a bit "OUT" on the conversation. I shouldn't have posted my Blah Blah comment as it was unfair to Phil and everyone talking about the amp. So my apologies on that.

Anyway , I have not been totally into this hobby as I have been over the decades I have enjoy it. I feel I lost my way in business , making a living and working on other things other than pure enjoyment of this hobby. As most of you know I'm also a Professional not just a hobbyist. So when your around audio video every single day decade after decade and own your own business, you tend to waiver from your hobby side and focus more on your business side. Still no accuse for my comments on Phils thread.

I still love this hobby but I'm absolutely in a different place than probably all of you. I look at things a bit different and from a different perspective. I'm no longer chasing the absolute purity of sound, I'm not after the next greatest thing and chasing it. I'm not after keep climbing the ladder of higher end stuff etc.

I few reasons for that is I have other hobby's I enjoy more like Drag Racing and detailing. That I have never fell off but I also don't do it for a living. Even if I did, my passion there is still as strong as it was since I was a young kid.

Funny about that is I also have had mad passion for audio then video since I was very young. My family was all musicians , mostly purchased higher end equipment, had awesome record collections etc. Hell I grew up on Brarbra Streisand , the Beatles and Queen. Kiss came into my life at a very young age and I had a Record player since like 5. I had 45's that had the Drummer Boy on one of them and I think I played the living hell out of the record. I had Kiss , Disco stuff, Grease, Saturday night fever , many Queen records as well as a lot of Kiss stuff. I never could get enough and since that very young age, I had the best audio equipment my money could buy.

Over the last decade or more , as being in the industry , I have met a lot of Audio engineers , amp designers , software dudes, all kinds of walks of life in this industry and a few of those conversations got me off my audio love path. Some of the things I learned sucked. I'll be totally honest I hated some of the things I learned as it went against a lot of what drove me to where I was going then.

That's another conversation but the reality of it all is yeah I still love this stuff. I still enjoy a great system. I enjoy designing them and then seeing my work come into reality.

Right now I have a new pair of Office speakers I'm enjoying. I have been as I always do TEST them with different equipment to see what I like and don't. It's fun I added a Subwoofer to them to see if that would bring another level of enjoyment to my life, it did and it also sparked a totally full new system going into my Family Room which is where I do my Movie and a lot of music listening. That room is finally gonna get some acoustic treatments and I'm gonna make the room much better for audio as in its current state SUCKS for sound. Over the decades I would keep buying new amps, new AVR's new speakers , new cables and all the jazz and honestly none of my system ever turned out exactly how I wanted them and I always knew it was the room and I was spending money on things and not getting my return on them. I was supposed to build a Dedicated Theater room in my basement decades ago, never got around to doing it. Always found other things to spend my money on , ok also my wife had some play in that but either way without a good room, my audio journey also got tarnished due to never really having a great place to enjoy what I can design.

Happy New year everyone.