"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
Answer: Depends what you mean by 'enthusiasts', but in the small
circle
of half a dozen or so local 'audio enthusiasts' I know, valves and
vinyl incidence is almost 100%.

Perhaps you need to widen your circle, then.


What for? Meet new and exciting people who *don't* use valves and/or
vinyl?

Priceless!

(I am *staggered* by the way your mind works! :-)

Others might be even more 'staggered' by your logic.

You seek out 'friends' who have the same beliefs in things that interest
you. Therefore all that share your interests no matter where must also
share your beliefs.


I'm even more staggered by your arse-about-face 'logic' - try the wild idea
that it was the *common interest* that drew us together:

I first met one of the 'circle' when buying motorcycles. He was then a hifi
enthusiast with 7 (if not 9) boxes of Cyrus SS stuff and 'normal' speakers.
He now has a pair of handmade 300B SETs and Lowther 'horn' speakers. after
hearing my kit. I bought a pair of IMF TLS80s from his colleague - see here,
with both my Lenco decks, a Fidelio speaker, a Chinese 300B SET amp, my 2A3
SET homebrew amp and a top of the range Technics 3000 SS amp:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/shown...0%20-%2002.JPG


'Eclectic' or what? :-)


The other members of the circle I mostly met through the local hifi shop
who, in fact, conspired to keep two of us apart for as long as possible as
we were apparently buying each other's cast-offs via the shop's then active
secondhand section! One of the circle I met through this newsgroup and
another I met through the World Audio Design forum.

That do you?

(Older, lifelong 'non hifi' friends are scattered far and wide now and it's
quite possible I won't see them again!)

Understand how it works now?