What's up you all? Wanted to introduce myself on WBF, my name is Buck......audiophile from Atlanta, I've been a reader on WBF for a long time but figured I might as well say hello and try and contribute to the forum. I'm somewhat of a "refugee" from the Audio Aficionado forum which I really enjoyed but with them moving to a subscription only model, they seemed to lose many of the long time members over there, so I've been on a bit of a hiatus from audio forums since then. I've gotten to know some you already, as a matter of fact Mark from Greenville (SCAudiophile) is getting together with me at the house next week to see a couple of new additions to the system. I spent a few hours at Mike Lavigne's awesome home last year with Marc (2fastdriving) which was of course an incredible experience (if you read this, hi Mike!). Also had the pleasure of finally meeting Lee Scoggins at Axpona this past year for a moment, surprised I haven't bumped into him in Atlanta at some point.
Anyway, hope to meet some more you all in the future. I've always been a music/hifi audio fan since I was a little kid and got a bit more exposure after undergrad working for Circuit City during the late 90's before the disaster(s) that took that company down. I just so happened to work there with several guys who were really into gear, McIntosh, Levinson, B&W, Rotel.......I still remember meeting the national training manager for C.C. who had a full blown Krell system. Anyway, to make a long story short, my first real personal journey was down at the (old) Hifi Buys in Atlanta. I'll never forget it, they had a pair of Sonus Faber Extremas hooked up to a Classe CP-50 ( I think ) and a massive CA-400 amplifier. The guy sat me down for close to an hour and played me stuff, it was absolutely mind blowing having never heard anything like that and I was hooked. I've gotta run out and take my girls to activities (which I spend more time doing than playing my system) but I'll go through a bit of the audio journey when I get some more time......I need to take some new pics of the room as well and go through a system thread too.
- Buck
Anyway, hope to meet some more you all in the future. I've always been a music/hifi audio fan since I was a little kid and got a bit more exposure after undergrad working for Circuit City during the late 90's before the disaster(s) that took that company down. I just so happened to work there with several guys who were really into gear, McIntosh, Levinson, B&W, Rotel.......I still remember meeting the national training manager for C.C. who had a full blown Krell system. Anyway, to make a long story short, my first real personal journey was down at the (old) Hifi Buys in Atlanta. I'll never forget it, they had a pair of Sonus Faber Extremas hooked up to a Classe CP-50 ( I think ) and a massive CA-400 amplifier. The guy sat me down for close to an hour and played me stuff, it was absolutely mind blowing having never heard anything like that and I was hooked. I've gotta run out and take my girls to activities (which I spend more time doing than playing my system) but I'll go through a bit of the audio journey when I get some more time......I need to take some new pics of the room as well and go through a system thread too.
- Buck