Does anyone remember the good ole days of the rave?
The rave was the best thing to happen to this hobby other than audio shows.
Great, gracious people opening their homes up, entertaining people for the pure joy of enjoying our hobby and each others company.
Sure we drank a lot and ate a lot but we had fun and we were all friends.
Then one day a few of us decided to get into the audio business and it all fell apart from there.
I know these words annoy the people reading it, but it is true, we were all in it for the hobby, to learn and experience, profit was not part of it.
Once you are in the business it all changes, you have to support your products, objectivity gets wiped away, the fun disappears, and we all can no longer gather to gain knowledge and experience. At least the way it used to be free and open. Now we have to be careful not to offend anyones products. True friends are able to call each other assholes, and say their system sucks and still eat their food and drink their wine.
I remember the first day it hit me was when we where at Barry's house for a mini rave, I thought it was a mini rave but really it was designed to introduce the new Merill amps to the club offering deep discounts to us.
That day changed it all for me, I knew it was over.
It was so much fun..........but alas those days are over except when we gather in small groups privately with no dealers, but the large scale fun is gone.
