gogofast
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i met this old guy maybe 4 years ago at a music store. he was a widower living only with his old dog. i was looking for some jazz records to buy, and he was surprised that a younger person was interested in records. we had a long conversation, and i explained to him about this hobby and that many people still enjoy records.
we became friends and i visited his house once in a while. he was a serious audiophile. for his entire system, according to his words, he had spent $200,000. i believed him when i saw a pair of $50,000 avantgarde speakers in his living room. i fixed some of his older gear from the 50's and 60's such as scott and fisher receivers for a beer or two. i recapped and matched tubes for him. he just had a lot of sentimental values for those pieces even though he had much better equipments...like mark levinson and some european stuff i wasn't really familiar with. he had hundreds of blue-note original records. i never asked him to sell those records to me, because i knew he still enjoyed them.
anyways, long story short - i haven't seen him in about a year, and recently tried to call him to see if he was up for a beer or two. the number was disconnected. so, i drove to his house a few days ago, and saw the house was up for sale. a neighbor told me that he passed away, and that his daughter sold the furniture and cleared a lot of "junks". it was really sad to hear this, and also hope what she meant by "junks" is not the gear and records this guy cherished.
we became friends and i visited his house once in a while. he was a serious audiophile. for his entire system, according to his words, he had spent $200,000. i believed him when i saw a pair of $50,000 avantgarde speakers in his living room. i fixed some of his older gear from the 50's and 60's such as scott and fisher receivers for a beer or two. i recapped and matched tubes for him. he just had a lot of sentimental values for those pieces even though he had much better equipments...like mark levinson and some european stuff i wasn't really familiar with. he had hundreds of blue-note original records. i never asked him to sell those records to me, because i knew he still enjoyed them.
anyways, long story short - i haven't seen him in about a year, and recently tried to call him to see if he was up for a beer or two. the number was disconnected. so, i drove to his house a few days ago, and saw the house was up for sale. a neighbor told me that he passed away, and that his daughter sold the furniture and cleared a lot of "junks". it was really sad to hear this, and also hope what she meant by "junks" is not the gear and records this guy cherished.
