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In Reply to: Do you remember that "moment" when the audio/music bug bit you? posted by Maniac on February 27, 2007 at 14:01:56:
... it was Ravel's Bolero, about 1965, played through my uncle's system including Macintosh tube monoblocks, AR 3's, a Garrard tt with probably a Pickering or Shure cart, and a Heathkit tube preamp that he built.
By age eleven I already had an eclectic set of musical influences: I grew up in Nashville, so Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and Elvis were facts of life; my father was an out-of-the-closet avant-jazz fan who played Miles and Coltrane after (he thought) everyone was asleep; my mother loved opera and cried when she played Mario Lanza records; my brother, eight years older, was coming home from college every few weeks packing Yardbirds, Animals, Stones, Beatles, Kinks, Who, and the like; and my sister, four years older, was dosing me heavily with the Motown and Stax stuff that the hip kids were into at that time. But when Uncle Stan dropped the needle on Bolero and cranked the volume, it: 1) immediately cleared the room and 2) rocked as hard as anything I have ever heard before or since. Since then I have spent decades of time and thousands of dollars in pursuit of that experience.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
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