Thread: My "Lost" Audio Decade

Quote: Originally Posted by trwham Phase 3- stumbled across some JBLs at a garage sale in 2008 and now I'm back. Welcome back! I think the virus takes hold more the second time around.

The recent realization by me that there are albums and equipment from between 1975 and 1985 that I had only a scant knowledge of has made me come to view the time period from 1975 to 1985 as my "Lost" Audio Decade. The fact that I was aware of several noteable albums but have never acquired them as well as being unaware of some interesting audio gear (like the elcaset) really seemed to frame this decade as...

I have a "lost period" as well (not quite a decade), from about 1997 through 2005, that coincides with job changes. In 1997, I changed jobs and went from having a short commute and lots of time to listen in both the a.m. and the p.m. to having a 1.5 hr commute each way which ate up a lot of my free time. Plus, my son was born in 1998, so listening in the evenings was necessarily verboten for quite a few years. But in late...

I also have a "lost" period between about 1992 to 1999. I guess the drugs and alcohol and party scene pretty much took precedence in my life. I had to experience it. I can't imagine the gear I would have now if I just could have kept my focus. Back in '92 I was into buying everything new and wanted the latest best and was always trading in my gear after a month or two. Now after all the drugs and alcohol, I can...

The early 2000s. My Arcam, Dynaudio system was essentially complete by 1998 and with going back to school and the birth of a child, didn't pay much attention to gear again until 2007.

Quote: Originally Posted by hatrack71 I also have a "lost" period between about 1992 to 1999. I guess the drugs and alcohol and party scene pretty much took precedence in my life. I had to experience it. I can't imagine the gear I would have now if I just could have kept my focus. Now after all the drugs and alcohol, I can honestly say that the pursuit of the good deal is what drives me. I have more of a preference for...

My lost audio period is between the years 1990 and 2000. In those years, audio did not interest me. I already had a system that sounded good, but I was bored with it. I was more playing around with computers then anything else. The equipment that was started being sold in the stores was surround sound receivers with black faces that were hard to see, digital displays and computerized settings for volume. Audio stores like Musicraft were going...

1984-1994. Raising kids will do that. They are into the same type of music and concerts as I am, but don't have the audio bug yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by 70salesguy The recent realization by me that there are albums and equipment from between 1975 and 1985 that I had only a scant knowledge of has made me come to view the time period from 1975 to 1985 as my "Lost" Audio Decade. That's an interesting decade for a lost one, as there were some dramatic migrations in the industry itself during that period. The advent of digital technologies in...

More like a lost generation for me.....like 70sStereosaleguy, I too did the retail, in-store thing and graduated from engineering school just after he did. When I graduated, I went into the computer industry in the late 70s and became consumed with building out microcomputers instead of audio gear. Through most of the 80s and 90s, I checked out of high-end audio as the family started and the kid grew up. BTW, my playing in bands follows a...