Haha Good start! Just rambled on introducing myself, accidentally clicked on the banner and lost my text..
Hi all. Registered last year sometime but not actually participated yet, always find interesting stuff to read though.
I'm Sam and living in Hackey in North/East London. Have an odd mix of gear from the last 30 years of high-end hifi all bought secondhand from small ads and ebay: Threshold pre-amp, Meridian Monoblocks, Alphason turntable, no-frills Marantz 'pro' CD player although lacking a bit in the speaker department with some Yamaha NS635s (think domestic NS-10s but the next size up) but hoping to change that very soon! I still have love for the physical formats - CDs are so cheap, vinyl is well, just alluring - but find myself playing music more and more from my laptop or home studio PC, even radio. I discover most new music online so that's where it plays from until I like it so much I'll buy the vinyl or CD.
Musicwise, it sounds a cliche but I really do like a bit of everything! You can always find boring music in any genre but genres are rarely a boundary. I find myself listening a lot to modern electronica at this particular moment in time but there are so many music blogs posting up rare vinyl rips or reviewing music on bandcamp or some very good online music magazines and then the myriad of radio stations online, I could find myself listening to anything. A little overwhelming in some senses - today is definately music's heyday so far!
That seems a good note to finish my introduction on. I shall no doubt make my first contributions.. I can feel one coming on already.