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In Reply to: Re: Toshiba 3990 ? (long) posted by zacster on November 26, 2006 at 05:24:50:
I picked up computers as a hobby at just the right time...my college degrees were in totally interesting but pretty much impractical areas with, as Frank Zappa once said, no commercial potential. The pre-ibmpc computer world was pretty interesting and through a lot of self-teaching and some luck I managed to make a career out of it (non-dot.com, non-millionaire--unfortunaltely!!). But I remember thinking audio was a dead end because there was not much to DO once you bought the stuff. (Listen to music of course, but that isn't audio). I agree with you that computers stole young people's interest from audio (I wasn't young when the pc craze hit--but younger than now). The AA forums get close to something that could for me replace the mags...I have done a bunch of Jon Risch things for example, and this Toshiba is another example. My current thinking, today, is, well, if Toshiba makes a great cheat cd player, I wonder what their cheap receivers sound like. If it is true that technology has changed (and it is), it is also true that big companies like TOshiba are picking up on the changes or making them themselves. In a hobby that essentially touts the past--lp's--which I still listen to sometimes, tubes--I have a tube preamp--even transistors over IC's--you aren't going to find innovative uses of the new and you aren't going to be able to catch the wave of change for your economic benefit--ie cheap! Thanks for the great post, it got me thinking in some more directions...if I come up with anything, I'll post it! Take care.
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