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I was born and raised in south Alabama, what we call L.A. or Lower Alabama. I am a bonafide country ******* hillbilly and take pride in it (I really am!). I have been married to my lovely wife Angibug since April 1984 and we have one daughter, Chelsea, born in 1990. I am a Christian... living my life for God as best I know how. However... I will not force religion on anyone... yet, if you ever want to talk or need a prayer, I will be here. I have been in the finance industry (lending) since 1983 and have owned my own company since May 1998. I also own a couple of other businesses. I love to hang out in the forums, work with websites, watch movies in the HT, fish, pitch horseshoes, tinker with car stereo, and fiddle around on my tractor on our 63 acres of land... and of course we love to fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ... and we worship God on the first day of every week. I believe everything is made for love and that one of our main goals in life should be to love one another with all our heart. Think about how much better the world would be if we all loved one another as much as God loves us.
My first real stereo system was a complete NAD system put together back in 1984 with the help of a good friend, Walter Barno, who has been in car stereo retail management for a number years. In addition to the NAD equipment we had a Thorens Jubilee turntable and a couple of EPI speakers that I quickly upgraded to Klipsch Fortes. I first got serious about HT back in 1991. I piddled around with it from about 1987 until I broke all out in 1991 with the big screen and full surround system... McIntosh, Snell, Lexicon, and more. In August 1996, Ron Sabin at Stereo Review magazine got desperate and contacted us about a systems article in their magazine. I had sent them some pics and a write up about a year earlier... I guess they finally got to the bottom of the pile. They flew out from California to our honky tonk residence in BAMA and reviewed our system. We were honored to say the least. You can see/read the article here. I traded up and down over the years, having fun learning about HT and it became a favorite hobby of mine. In October 2003 we started construction on our dedicated home theater with a front projection system, which was an absolute blast to build. We finished this up in early 2004, in time for the Super Bowl. It was our favorite room in our house, yet... there came a time when I felt like it was insufficient and did not make sense, thus I tore it out and it was all gone. We wept. It was not long afterwards that we all realize how much we missed it and my wife gave me the entire garage to enclose and make our dream home theater room. It is named after the road we live on... Cedar Creek Cinema (see sig).
My first experience in the HT forums was the SMR (Lexicon) forum back in the mid 90's when I got our first real processor, the Lexicon CP3+, although I later traded up to a DC-1, to only later sell it and give the Sony TAE9000ES processor a spin. I popped in and out of the SMR forum, but was not what you would call a regular. I eventually ceased participation their because at that time it was a less than friendly forum. There were some good guys there, but then there were also those that just ruin a good thing. By the late 90's and early 2,000's I had joined most all of the popular HT forums and skipped around from one to the other, but HTF was probably my favorite at the time. Shortly after joining HTF I moved over to the fairly new HTGuide forum and ended up hanging my hat there for a number of years. In 2001 I set out on a challenge to create the BFD Guide that would help others understand how to setup and operate the Behringer Feedback Destroyer as a parametric equalizer to tame low frequency bass anomalies. The guide was silently co-authored by Ken Bruce (brucek) and consisted of a compilation of several enthusiast thoughts that I simply put together in one place. I never dreamed it would turn out to be a big hit and I am glad it has helped a lot of people over the years. It has also brought me many friendships along the way.
In 2005, Andrew Pratt, a forum buddy from HTG, asked me to help Next Level AV forums start a BFD Forum. I obliged and it ended up being a very popular section of their forum. It was fun working with all the folks over at NLAV. Unfortunately the owner, Jim Piscitello, passed away unexpectedly in early April 2006. He was a great loss to the HT community and Jim will be missed dearly. I was fortunate enough to have gained a great friend in such a short time. These events brought about the idea of creating a new home theater forum. I reached out to John Mulcahy, author of Room EQ Wizard... and with the help of several of our forum buddies we created Home Theater Shack. Things worked out and here we are. We hope you will enjoy Home Theater Shack for many years to come.
I was born and raised in south Alabama, what we call L.A. or Lower Alabama. I am a bonafide country ******* hillbilly and take pride in it (I really am!). I have been married to my lovely wife Angibug since April 1984 and we have one daughter, Chelsea, born in 1990. I am a Christian... living my life for God as best I know how. However... I will not force religion on anyone... yet, if you ever want to talk or need a prayer, I will be here. I have been in the finance industry (lending) since 1983 and have owned my own company since May 1998. I also own a couple of other businesses. I love to hang out in the forums, work with websites, watch movies in the HT, fish, pitch horseshoes, tinker with car stereo, and fiddle around on my tractor on our 63 acres of land... and of course we love to fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ... and we worship God on the first day of every week. I believe everything is made for love and that one of our main goals in life should be to love one another with all our heart. Think about how much better the world would be if we all loved one another as much as God loves us.
My first real stereo system was a complete NAD system put together back in 1984 with the help of a good friend, Walter Barno, who has been in car stereo retail management for a number years. In addition to the NAD equipment we had a Thorens Jubilee turntable and a couple of EPI speakers that I quickly upgraded to Klipsch Fortes. I first got serious about HT back in 1991. I piddled around with it from about 1987 until I broke all out in 1991 with the big screen and full surround system... McIntosh, Snell, Lexicon, and more. In August 1996, Ron Sabin at Stereo Review magazine got desperate and contacted us about a systems article in their magazine. I had sent them some pics and a write up about a year earlier... I guess they finally got to the bottom of the pile. They flew out from California to our honky tonk residence in BAMA and reviewed our system. We were honored to say the least. You can see/read the article here. I traded up and down over the years, having fun learning about HT and it became a favorite hobby of mine. In October 2003 we started construction on our dedicated home theater with a front projection system, which was an absolute blast to build. We finished this up in early 2004, in time for the Super Bowl. It was our favorite room in our house, yet... there came a time when I felt like it was insufficient and did not make sense, thus I tore it out and it was all gone. We wept. It was not long afterwards that we all realize how much we missed it and my wife gave me the entire garage to enclose and make our dream home theater room. It is named after the road we live on... Cedar Creek Cinema (see sig).
My first experience in the HT forums was the SMR (Lexicon) forum back in the mid 90's when I got our first real processor, the Lexicon CP3+, although I later traded up to a DC-1, to only later sell it and give the Sony TAE9000ES processor a spin. I popped in and out of the SMR forum, but was not what you would call a regular. I eventually ceased participation their because at that time it was a less than friendly forum. There were some good guys there, but then there were also those that just ruin a good thing. By the late 90's and early 2,000's I had joined most all of the popular HT forums and skipped around from one to the other, but HTF was probably my favorite at the time. Shortly after joining HTF I moved over to the fairly new HTGuide forum and ended up hanging my hat there for a number of years. In 2001 I set out on a challenge to create the BFD Guide that would help others understand how to setup and operate the Behringer Feedback Destroyer as a parametric equalizer to tame low frequency bass anomalies. The guide was silently co-authored by Ken Bruce (brucek) and consisted of a compilation of several enthusiast thoughts that I simply put together in one place. I never dreamed it would turn out to be a big hit and I am glad it has helped a lot of people over the years. It has also brought me many friendships along the way.
In 2005, Andrew Pratt, a forum buddy from HTG, asked me to help Next Level AV forums start a BFD Forum. I obliged and it ended up being a very popular section of their forum. It was fun working with all the folks over at NLAV. Unfortunately the owner, Jim Piscitello, passed away unexpectedly in early April 2006. He was a great loss to the HT community and Jim will be missed dearly. I was fortunate enough to have gained a great friend in such a short time. These events brought about the idea of creating a new home theater forum. I reached out to John Mulcahy, author of Room EQ Wizard... and with the help of several of our forum buddies we created Home Theater Shack. Things worked out and here we are. We hope you will enjoy Home Theater Shack for many years to come.