What's your occupation?

[cfelliot]

Still pounding out code after all these years!

 

First stereo: Sansui AU-555a and a pair of EV Aristocrats

 

[BobH]

and part-time Dark Lord covering Middle Earth every other week-end and, on occasional summer evenings, Bognor Regis. Spend most of my time these days trying to perfect the spell that will switch Neil Young and Paul McCartney off. Turning cow dung into gold was easy, by comparison!

 

Bought my first 'system' in 1752 - it was a marvelous ensemble of 8 minstrels that had really deep deeps and surprisingly mid mids. Cost a small fortune to keep it going and, frankly, I got a bit fed up with the lute. Still don't like it.

 

Would love an ice cream but that's the price you pay for eternal life. Ah well - pass the bats-blood biscuits Egor, there's a love.

 

[souptin]

Another graphic designer. Which, I think, edges us into the lead over the dentists. Not that I can be trusted to keep score or anything.

 

[PeterSt]

Anyone see the Canadian Grand Prix? One of the best races I have seen in a while!

 

It might just as well have been the best F1 race ever ...

 

 

[Petrosilius]

Banking Supervisor, head of department overseeing the large complex banking groups of the country - well, used to..

Now a freelance banking supervisory consultant and hobby highend gear dealer (doesn't really pay, and distributors are sometimes, well, ...)

 

Favorite ice-cream? There's a little Italian ice cream shop in the southern part of the city of Berlin only a few people know of.

 

[1audio]

Which means I advise the companies at the bottom of this post (and others) on what to do. Usually they don't take it so they come back for more when things go wrong.

 

I brilliantly dropped working in the computer industry in the 70's for HiFi because the computer industry was boring. It still is and has a lot of rich people working in it. I'm still in consumer electronics and not rich. But I'm enjoying it.

 

[Jud]

I brilliantly dropped working in the computer industry in the 70's for HiFi

 

Several folks around here and elsewhere are glad you did.

 

[RobbieC]

@PeterSt

 

I am an F1 fanatic. I've been following F1 for about 20 years and have even gone to a few races in Europe. I once bumped into David Coulthard in 2005 right outside my Chelsea flat when he was visiting my next door neighbor.

 

I agree with you that this last grand prix may have been the best ever. I certainly enjoyed all four hours of it.

 

Wasn't there a former F1 engineer replying in this thread?

 

[jhstn58]

In-house counsel for a hospital company.

 

Got hooked on hi-fi from my dad, who built his own Heathkit receivers and speakers.

 

Ice cream? B&R chocolate almond.

 

[bottlerocket]

Not.

 

 

[Jef Paas]

Bottle Collector.

 

Likes...Things that melt.

 

Dislikes....Things that don't melt.

 

jp

 

[Part-Time Audiophile]

 

 

My favorite ice cream? That's like trying to pick your favorite child. But if I had to point one out, it'd be Chubby Hubby. But not as it's my favorite, per se, but more for that two year period where I apparently was endeavoring to become that which I was eating. Sure was tasty, though.

 

[Dewey2]

Retouching sales rep (= take zits off of super models)

 

ben & jerry's heath bar is awfully good

 

[elcorso]

Maybe your MD is reading this thread!

 

Too many ice cream lovers, too many with elevated cholesterol levels.

 

But who cares, mine is Italian Pistachio!

 

Roch

 

[Jud]

...that we're having a little OT diversion here about another favorite hobby.

 

Big F1 fan as well, first got into it with my (sadly, late) best friend from work. Agree about Montreal, that was amazing, though I was rooting for Vettel. I saw it all and I still have no idea how Button was even on the lead lap, let alone able to win (though multiple safety car intervals will help people make up time on the leader).

 

Another favorite F1 memory also involves the final lap of a race, Jenson, and a driver I was rooting for at the time, Kimi Raikkonen. Kimi'd flat-spotted his tire, and the constant vibration finally tore the wheel off the car on the final lap. The momentum swung Kimi around backwards and broke the car in half. The image I remember that always makes me laugh because it was so absurd (though I'm sure it was hair-raising for those involved) is the slow-motion replay of Kimi flying backwards in his half a car passing Jenson, who was braking for a corner. Can you imagine what Jenson must have thought for a fraction of a second, watching Kimi pass him as if he were standing still while staring straight back at him? "Hmm, that's the sort of thing you don't see every day."

 

[med_designer]

Hello,

 

I have been reading Computer Audiophile for a few months now and thought i would jump on board. Good to see other F1 fans here. I have been following F1 since about 2004 and have attended a number of races. I was at the USGP when the big Michelin/Bridgestone tire fiasco happened. It was such chaos that I was able to sneak down to a tree that was right by one of the turns in the infield. I was as close to the track edge as any marshall. That being said their where only 6 cars running but it was cool anyway.

 

So, my occupation....I worked as a mastering engineer in Nashville throughout the mid and late 90's. When I began to see the direction the industry was going, I opted for a career change and I now work in academic medicine.

 

I am in the process of re-tooling my home audio system and have found this site both informative and spirited. Thanks to all for the help so far.

 

[Thomas J]

I now own and operate a small oil production company.

 

My main interest is exploring life and writing poetry in a spiritual vein.

 

 

Some Time After Morning Coffee??

 

today, i wondered out loud?

hey, if everything is everything then my everything is

your everything and yours hers and hers God's

 

and my mind caught fire!

 

i ran to put it out but by

then my house was on fire!

 

the fire truck arrived to

the whole block on fire,

then the oil tanks exploded and

the entire mountain was on fire

 

burning squirrels threw themselves

into mouths of burning wolves

and entire burning families of eagles

plunged in droves like arrows into the ocean

 

the ocean fire, actually, was the worst,

it roared and thundered and heaved

and lashed at rocket tails

escaping to space by the thousands

 

these were consumed whole when

earth exploded from the heat —

earths can only take so much heat

and what a crater this one left

 

an obstinate spot of nothing that

eats black holes like popcorn

 

[dummy]

I didn't saw the race but I sure heard It... That's what woke me up last sunday. The noise was, well, LOUD! Very live indeed.

 

Zoom Zoom...

 

 

 

[f1eng]

I enjoyed the race too. Montreal was always my favourite event. My favourite race there was 1979, a tough race on brakes, tyres and fuel. Plus the car I was running won.

I miss Montreal and Australia most since I retired. I preferred Adelaide to Melbourne. I am looking at the winners trophy for the first Adelaide race in 1985 as I type.

 

[ryan_d]

"Used to be an audiophile until I discovered that I really liked music more than the equipment."

 

Nice comment.......something that's probably been forgotten by many an audiophile.

 

BTW, I'm an Occupational Therapist and Head of Therapy for a private hospital.

 

Ryan

 

 

 

[cutting42]

Ahh, Jones and Rosberg, a Williams man. My favourite team for many years. Sad to see them in the midfield at the moment, they deserve better.

 

Very cool job, the dream of many

 

[Paul R]

Surely that must be a very rare thing! Why would anyone go through the time and effort necessary to put together a nice sounding system, if it was not to get to the music?

 

Do I just have a blind spot about this subject, or does anyone here really consider the fun of putting the gear together more rewarding than the music played on the gear?

 

(Not judging mind you! Just never really gave that a serious thought before...)

 

-Paul

 

 

[mwheelerk]

Paul

Was your post in response to something in this thread on occupations or did you post in the wrong thread? A little confused but no big deal.

 

[Paul R]

 

"Used to be an audiophile until I discovered that I really liked music more than the equipment."

 

Nice comment.......something that's probably been forgotten by many an audiophile.

 

I was honestly rather surprised that this might be something - eh- common. Had I inherited great wealth, I might have contrived so that the vast majority of my free time was spent listening to live music, somehow or another. Since I did not inherit such wealth, getting recorded music to sound great (on the cheap, consistent with time, budget, and WAF) is a fun exercise with a very rewarding end.

 

-Paul

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi everyone - This is an exceptional thread. Please stay on topic.