I think I was 11 or 12. It was around that age when I earned a red rump in the pursuit of an audio objective. Much to my mother's displeasure, I turned a nightstand into a turntable plinth for a Perpetuum Ebner PE2040. I thought it was really cool. The diametrically opposed nature of her opinion became clear to me, but it was a small price to pay. I cut grass to earn the table with a broken plinth from a nice neighbor. I bought my first pair of 'real' speakers from Radio Shack because they financed - yes, the same mother who introduced a belt to my rear over the nightstand co-signed a finance agreement for my speakers. Of course, that was the preface to her repeated cries, "Turn that noise down!"
Ah, youth was fun. Music got its hooks in me early and I think I was born with an affinity for gadgets. It was a long road to here. I'm quite happy with here. Looking back, however, I don't remember a time when it wasn't fun - when I didn't enjoy it.
The theater build threads on this site have lots of amazing spaces. Comparatively, mine is minimalist, bland and 'in your face' with the gear. It hardly matters as it's usually pretty dark in the room. I'm more into the stereo than the home theater anyway, but mine is a dual purpose system. It's fun to see all of the audio systems folks have put together in this thread - great stuff!
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The resolution reduction always seems to make my less than stellar photos even blurrier. I tried my son's camera with a wide angle lens, but I couldn't get anything worth seeing. I think the lens on my camera covers the same range as yours. I usually bracket the (expletive deleted) out of each shot - hoping one of them will be focused properly (and I don't know which one it is until I transfer them to a PC - can't tell a thing from the display on the camera). I wear glasses at times - usually, I don't really need to bother. I couldn't put contacts on my eyes if my life depended on it.
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Legacy's Extreme sub is properly named - never heard it, but wow! Is the 33SE much of a step up from your 32SE? I know what the BDP-2 has over the BDP-1 - it was released a couple of months after I bought my BDP-1, which still suits my needs...although...