How rude of me! And I apologize... I actually came here looking for full range information (all googles seem to end here) and posted several times before I even realized that the "introductions" forum existed! Oooops!
Anyway my name is Jon, I'm 40 something, a lifelong hobby-audiophile/speaker junky and recently moved from the Seattle area to a small town on the Washington coast with my wife and 14 year old son to pursue at least a different pace of life if not financial ease 😉
I've owned tons of pretty good commercial gear over the years including dynaco, mcintosh, vandersteen, snell, dahlquist, magnapan, Martin logan, and tons more of vintage stuff. My favorite speaker is probably the largest Teledyne AR stuff but always seem to be searching for something new or at least different.
Our oldest two children are adults and live away from home and my current line of work usually leaves me plenty of "free" time in the winter months and I think I'm finally tired of buying someone else's equipment so finding this DIY forum couldn't have happened at a much better time.
Love the community here; lots of helpful folks and interesting reads!
Anyway my name is Jon, I'm 40 something, a lifelong hobby-audiophile/speaker junky and recently moved from the Seattle area to a small town on the Washington coast with my wife and 14 year old son to pursue at least a different pace of life if not financial ease 😉
I've owned tons of pretty good commercial gear over the years including dynaco, mcintosh, vandersteen, snell, dahlquist, magnapan, Martin logan, and tons more of vintage stuff. My favorite speaker is probably the largest Teledyne AR stuff but always seem to be searching for something new or at least different.
Our oldest two children are adults and live away from home and my current line of work usually leaves me plenty of "free" time in the winter months and I think I'm finally tired of buying someone else's equipment so finding this DIY forum couldn't have happened at a much better time.
Love the community here; lots of helpful folks and interesting reads!
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Welcome to the forum! You will find plenty of good info here as well as other Washington state DIY types (and BC).
I lived on the Kitsap peninsula once, but it was too gloomy for me and had to flee south!
I lived on the Kitsap peninsula once, but it was too gloomy for me and had to flee south!
You traitor! 😀
You had hardly developed any rust spots when you took off. First to Portland (There's a big change :^), then to North Carolina.
oktyabr,
Welcome to the Forum.
Best Regards,
TerryO
...and the Seattle DIY Meet the very next weekend:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/clubs-events/189805-seattle-diy-meet.html
😀
Best Regards,
TerryO
Thanks for the welcome guys!
It is a bit of drive and my work schedule isn't all that flexible currently, but I'll see what I can do about making at least one of the meets.
It is a bit of drive and my work schedule isn't all that flexible currently, but I'll see what I can do about making at least one of the meets.
Hello Jon and welcome aboard. Tell us, what little town on the coast. I was in your neck recently.
Hi Jon - and Welcome to diyAudio!!!! 😀😀😀
Cal - I thought that they had your photo at the border entry point...
Have you been using that old fishing boat at midnight again???? 😀😀😀
Yes it's actually a converted canoe with submarine capabilities. I use beer for ballast and surface on the USA side when it's gone.
Knowing Cal, if he's out of beer he just turns around and heads back to take on fresh "supplies". No wonder we never see him.
😀
Best Regards,
Terry
Well helllllll - he's gotta turn back for more Canadian beer - Nooooooooo way would he be drinking the USA stuff!!!! Annnnnnnd - he's right ahbuut that!!! American beer = bilge water....
Well - hmmmm - maybe if it is a really hot day out and you need something to cool you off - similar to a glass of ice water - then an ice cold USA beer might serve as a "refresher" - plusssss - that allows you to save "the good stuff" for proper enjoyment later while listening to audio gear. 😎
OTOH - I haven't had a beer for twenty years now - so what the hellllll do I know!!! 🙄
Ocean Shores, Washington 🙂
Nice peaceful little community most of the year and a crazy tourist town for the warmer and dryer bits of it. Locals have said that around 100,000 people show up for the 4th of July (next weekend)... quite a few for a town with a year round population of only 5,100!
Ocean Shores.com - At The Beach Rentals - Ocean Shores, WA; Ocean City, WA; Copalis Beach, WA; Pacific Beach, WA; Moclips, WA; Vacation Rentals and Area Information
Oh, PS, I like Canadian beer for the most part but the Brits have it nailed with theirs! Old Speckled Hen is my favorite 😉
Nice peaceful little community most of the year and a crazy tourist town for the warmer and dryer bits of it. Locals have said that around 100,000 people show up for the 4th of July (next weekend)... quite a few for a town with a year round population of only 5,100!
Ocean Shores.com - At The Beach Rentals - Ocean Shores, WA; Ocean City, WA; Copalis Beach, WA; Pacific Beach, WA; Moclips, WA; Vacation Rentals and Area Information
Oh, PS, I like Canadian beer for the most part but the Brits have it nailed with theirs! Old Speckled Hen is my favorite 😉
Don't drown in Duck Lake!
I remember when one of my cousins and I got chased away from the shipwrecked Catala by guy with a shotgun. Later it sank beneath the sand where it sat for 20 or 30 years until it finally came up again. The whole family used to go digging for Razor Clams when there was a good tide, great times long ago.
Best Regards,
TerryO
TerryO - Wow! You DO know Ocean Shores! Our 14 year old has made a hobby of searching the beach for the very rare lump of black stuff, the first one he found turned out to be a lump of coal from the Catala... still washing up on the beach on occasion after all these years!
Cal - Thanks! We liked the Seattle area too... I've been all over the lower 48 'states (and most of southern Canada as well) and Seattle was/is has always been my favorite metro area, south of the border anyway (I want to go back to Victoria one day)... but... I don't miss having to listen to traffic reports to figure out how long it's going to take to get somewhere and I guess I've always been a country boy at heart...
Currently my work ties me up on night shift and I get home usually around 3-4am. Nothing but a few night birds and occasionally the sound of the surf 🙂 Once in awhile my wife and I, and occasionally our son as well, will actually go down to the beach to play in the waves and star gaze... at 3am!
On the flip side of the coin it's been an interesting time since we moved here, the first "tourist town" we've ever lived in, and that really DOES mean something.
Cal - Thanks! We liked the Seattle area too... I've been all over the lower 48 'states (and most of southern Canada as well) and Seattle was/is has always been my favorite metro area, south of the border anyway (I want to go back to Victoria one day)... but... I don't miss having to listen to traffic reports to figure out how long it's going to take to get somewhere and I guess I've always been a country boy at heart...
Currently my work ties me up on night shift and I get home usually around 3-4am. Nothing but a few night birds and occasionally the sound of the surf 🙂 Once in awhile my wife and I, and occasionally our son as well, will actually go down to the beach to play in the waves and star gaze... at 3am!
On the flip side of the coin it's been an interesting time since we moved here, the first "tourist town" we've ever lived in, and that really DOES mean something.
My Grandfather's stepdad was said to have been the first "Steam Donkey" Engineer in the NW. Up 'til then they used Oxen to haul the logs out of the woods. This would have been in the early 1890's. My folks graduated from Hoquiam High School and most of my relatives still live down there.
There's a lot of history connected to the early years in SW Washington.
Matt Peasley, Billy Gould, John Huelsdonk ("The Iron Man of the Hoh") are just a few names that come to mind.
Best Regards,
TerryO
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