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I was a member of a group but the commute was to much. It has amazed me that in an area as populated as Long Island New York there isnot a group.
<A href="http://www.stereophile.com/audiophilesocieties/">Audio clubs</a> have been doing well the last few years, with new ones appearing every so often. Would you attend an audio club get-together if there were one nearby? Why or why not?
We had a Canberra Audio Society, but the meetings stopped. Why? Well maybe, it was ONE weirdo who talked to himself all the time. And then there was ME! I remember walking out of the first CD demo at someone's home. It was just AWFUL!!!! Most others were going wow and etc. Hard, edgy, and UNPLEASANT. IIRC the speakers were the biggest Nakamichi monitors, or Yammie NS1000M's in a deep red-brown veneer. Revealing? Ooooh yes! Wrong amp, or was it just the DGG (mike festoon!??) CD of a Grand Piano or CDP, it was the big chunky Sony!? But it WAS awful! Quiet? yep, but just AWFUL.