Well, I’ve already posted a couple times in the forum, and @prfallon69 already gave me his extremely kind, obligatory welcome, but I resisted introducing myself formally in this thread because I guess I felt shy about it. And maybe that’s because I felt shy about headphones in general. I actually got seriously into headphones more than a decade ago, but then I sold everything. I even wrote an essay about it that was somewhat dismissive of my audiophile past. I’d felt at the time that I’d possibly wasted my money on gear for gear’s sake, chasing a placebo effect.
But then the pandemic hit, and all the craziness of 2020 pulled me back in, and I have to say, it’s just so wonderful to be savoring music like this again. I love nice gear (in my case LCD2f and a Lyr 3 with MB), but what I really love is how it elevates music listening to an active rather than a passive pursuit. I can’t remember the last time I spent an evening watching TV by myself. These days, if I’m not hanging out with my wife or my kids, I’m usually either researching new music to experience or listening hard for the details and visceral pleasure of something I love.
So I just wanted to say thanks for all the guidance and reviews from folks like @Resolve and @Chrono and @metal571, not to mention the livestreams from @MRHifiReviews and @TylersEclectic, and all the great info in these forums. This is one of the friendliest discussions I’ve ever found on the web.