Dear AudioKarma Family,
When I'm kinda speechless, you know I'm feeling it.
Today I'm kinda speechless.
When I wandered into this joint during summer 2006, I sure wasn't thinking I'd still be arriving here, almost daily, o'er the next 16 consecutive years. But that's what happened. It happened because I found a place on the world wide thing that mattered to me, where I "e" met guys - and a few gals - who, like me, loved listening to music, loved talkin' about music, loved talkin' about methods of reproducing & playing back music, ways to record music, and makin' music. Folks who, like me, were and are in it for The Sound.
Along the way I've learned a variety of ways to collect music; one method in particular has resulted in a digital collection of ~ 3TB of the stuff, pretty much replicating my most of my vinyl horde and a significant portion of the 78s ... all of it still sittin' in The States, thousands of miles from me.
Along the way I have made dozens of friends at this community, people with whom I have shared so much -- nearly a quarter! -- of my life, as mentioned above, almost daily. Sure, over that 16-year spell the cast has changed, sometimes abruptly other times gradually, but as some folks move on or away other folks move in or towards and it keeps on working.
I cannot imagine not being at, not participating in and with members of this community. Y’all are some really cool and fun and provocative folks and that’s what I love most about this joint…. the membership.
I am appreciative, honored, humbled and I might be doin' that jumpin' banana thing in my mind.
Thank you, my AudioKarma Family.
- edwin