I Am An Audiophile

My Brother came home from Germany with a Kayak reel to reel ,
back then everything still had wires to it but it had a remote and two 18"'s
that would just rattle the house ,,I was hooked
So I bought my first system from the base exchange when I finally was old enough to join the service ,and the bass and the highs even the neighbors had no problem with me rockin out ,it with no tax back in 1976 still cost me over 500 dollars ,,big money then ,since my Dad worked all week at the space center for only 150 ,,
My next system was a Fisher studio standard ,4 18s horns ,Mids and tweeters 600 whatts per channel ,,,that one was clear a mile from the house
then I could finally afford a Marshal stack with a 4x12 cabinet,,and a Pevey Heritage with a black widow speaker ,a PV mixing board we ran mics to everything
Now I have friends who can tell you the name and model of every guitar ,and bass every built and what kind of pickups it has in it and what year it was built ,,
Me I just play the strings off them ,never cared about all the jargin ,if it sounds good ,and I can get the effect out of it for a show I need ,thats all I care about
They always love my systems ,when they quit getting loud they just get clear and every note sounds like your there ,Steven Tylor and Steve Perry so pitch perfect it sounds like you could look down their throats and see the note forming ,
what I know about tubes is when it quits glowing ,my amp quits jaming ,and its always that great big one ,,
now my guitar and my amp use Trans tube Technology ,not sure what all that means but they assure me its good and my friends who do know all that jargin say it the Bomb ,but I do know noise from clean clear music
and noise is not my gig .
when they tell me how good I sounded 5 miles away and every note was dead on ,
thats what I like
they have built us a stage so far back in the boon dock it too an hour for an Ambulance to get there when a drunk accidentally shot himself ,,but kids from all over were there to hear is play 3 days straight ,or build us a stage on an island and have to get all our gear there by boat ,(one time they dropped my Pa speaker in the drink and salt water poured out of one of the hookups the whole time we played ,but some kid there said he worked for Black Widow and they were made to get wet and keep on rockin ,,guess he was right ,besides some rust on the corner guards it never seems to hurt anything ,and I see water coming out of them ,
Did a pig pickin in the Mountains of the carolinas ,,they pitched tents all in the valley and our stage was on the side of a mountain ,we had to say enough is enough after 4 days ,that was just a birthday party that turned into maybe a 1000 people to come eat pig and listen to us while sittin in the rain (Don't play in lightning though got knocked on my butt one time, that won't happen again )
So all the logistics of it I don't understand ,,all I know is where I want the drums ,where the Pa speakers go ,how I want the amps and which cable goes into the mixer and how many mic's we need,
Some go one about a SureSM58 ,I have sang ,sung ,blowed a note out of an old Pevey mic for over 30yrs and I have had the Sm58 and better ones ,I would kill if my mic was damaged or lost,,,my Mic and Guitar are extensions of me ,and I have had that mic longer then 2 wives ,,its faithful LOL
But I said all that to say ,I don't know crapola about all the stats and jargin some of my crew spits out
I am just a country boy who taught myself to play by ear ,so i know a note and when its right or wrong ,I can by ear hit a 440 E note dead on the money ,,
and play about any country ,southern rock ,blues ,classic rock and gospel contemporary or classic you can name
And it all started with how good my brothers reel to reel sounded
He's 70 now ,,and still playing the best system money can buy
but I got one up on him ,,He can't play a lick ,,and one of the albums in his collection is mine
Keep the tubes screamin brother ,,keep em screamin

Just saw the Absolute Sound review online. They seem like amazing speakers.

I totally understand.