Greetings, fellow enthusiasts. How nice of you to let me join. What brought me here was research about PI Audios power conditioners.
I've been actively building a serious system since 2000 or so, but have been obsessed with high-fidelity sound since I was ten years old. I do primarily two-channel, digital, and analog. I dabble in home theater and head-fi.
I have eight record-playing devices in varying states of repair. I enjoy mechanical idler-wheel drive turntables. My primary tables are a cream grease-bearing Garrard 301 with two tonearms and a Thorens TD124 just refurbished by Gregory Metz. I also use a Technics SL-1200MK2 for fun.
Current amplifiers are a 1977 McIntosh MC2505 and a pair of MC30s. Preamplifiers are a McIntosh C28 and a Schiit SYS for fun. Speakers are Spatial M4 Triode Masters.
I have had a voracious musical appetite since I bought my first LP in 1976. I listen to at least three new albums per week. I have been obsessed with playback fidelity for as long as I can remember. For six years in the 1980s and 1990s I was active in college radio, managing the stations, promoting local acts, interviewing musicians, and so on.
I have never been without a record player in my life. I have just finished a year-long-project to get several vintage components refurbished. My favorite sound systems are those that let me hear the human aspect of the recording, even if the instruments are electronic.