Hah, last time I saw him, he was selling me a bottle of Disc Doctor.

I first met Bruce when he was working out of his home, I beleive on the west side of town. I don't recall the exact year.

Definitely in Wisconsin Rapids....

Does anybody remember when HiFi Heaven was downtown? That was the heyday. Heard those awesome Ohm full range Walsh drivers. They still leave an impression upon me. Nortoriously inefficient and omnidirectional, but quite a technical tour de force. They engineered the materials and shape in a full range driver from which a time coherent wave was launched. The wave started at the top (voice coil) and did bending wave transmission. When the wave arrived at the bottom, which was a little closer to the listening position (due to narrower top compared to the wider bottom), it all arrived at your ear at the same time. How cool is that.

Bought my first subwoofer there - a passive Dahlquist - 13 inch sealed woofer. For main speakers, I had a pair of Dynaco Phase 3. They had a multi-stepped baffle and time aligned the SEAS drivers. No looking back after that.

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One of the first things I did when I came to Green Bay was get the phone book out and look for audio shops....At the time, Hi Fi Heaven was over on Oneida, the big strip mall where Office Max is. 
On my first visit I encountered Jim, who seemed to be taken aback by my "British" way of bartering and haggling. I walked out on my first visit with a Krell amp that I'd dreamed of owning back in blighty but could never justify its price tag. It was 3500 GBP back in the UK, about $7,000 by todays exchange rate, maybe $5000 back then. It was $3500 new in the US, Jim let me have it for $1750 'cos Krell had recently introduced the same amp with a slightly different faceplate.

My next purchase from him was my pair of Apogee Calipers.....wowzee, I couldn't believe my luck when I snagged those puppies, the only problem was they sounded like crap with my new Krell!!

Ahh...the good old days .....

Whooda thought that 11 years later I'd be sitting in a basement in Green Lake, watching Football on a laptop while listening to Mozart on a horn rig?

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I know of more than one person that has gone from hundreds of watts to 10 or less and of course including myself and I have no qualms for doing so!

One can get intoxicated on audio!

But its what your getting Buzzed from!   

SET

hoodjem wrote on Mar 8^th, 2008 at 10:02am:

Yup, I gotta fess up though, I have a couple of those "best of Mozart" CD's, handy compilations for clowns like me. 

Classical sounds better on the Apogees than with the horns, I'm not sure why, but I'll invent a reason before the week is out