How did YOU get here?????

[Resident Loser]

...either late '99 or early 2000 and I had been away from the hardware end of the hobby for a time. I was trying to find out what had happened to AUDIO magazine, formerly Audio Engineering, itself successor to RADIO est. 1917...or so the masthead said as I recall...

High Fidelity was kaput for quite some time, it's readership absorbed by Stereo Review which itself had become less "stereo" oriented in favor of the nascent HT market, eventually morphing into Sound & Vision I believe...

Anywho, I stumbled onto this place, then under Norb's stewardship, during a web search and began leafing through the forums when I came upon the "Cables and Interconnects" forum...Now you have to appreciate the fact that my last perusals of said mags had ads for the then cottage industry of aftermarket wiring...the hype handed me a laugh then as it still does to this day, but I digress...

After lurking and taking in what I still contend is more claptrap than anything else, I began to post, under my original moniker, as a staunch member of the "naysayers" camp...This did not sit well with certain parties and I engaged them much as I still do today, although the cast of characters has changed...In those days it was a feeding-frenzy, lead by a certain wire guru who had his followers, who did most of the dirty work.

My first friendly response from a like-minded individual "ignore the man behind the curtain" was message from markw, who was quite happy to have another individual on the team...and there was Eyespy, mtrycrafts, Pat D, FLZapped, Norm Strong, Woodman and a few others...

So here I am, despite numerous attempts within and without to have me quit the place and while I have frequented other websites, for some un-godly reason, I invariably call this place "home"...it must be the masochist in me.

jimHJJ(...either that or I'm as dumb as a bag of hammers...)