I've been in this hobby for some 5 years now. I've always loved music, both in the listening and the playing, but never understood what they were talking about in those stereo magazines. Until coming here, I had no idea what a "soundstage" was except from the recording industry. I used cheap, second hand gear that sounded like mud. Then one day after improving my college dorm gear to a decent amp and mains, I was listening to some modern jazz piece by one of the Marsalis clan...

All of sudden it hit me like a thunderbolt from the blue. The drums were at left center, the horns were dead on at 12:00 and strings and guitar to the right. Other instruments came and went but all had their "place" in the room. I was stunned. I'd never heard music reproduced this way. Mids and highs became more important to me than "bump and thump" and I became a more discerning listener...

I saw the light as it were. When and how did this happen to you?

Da Wondering Worfster