I've been a lurker on this and other audio groups for two or three years
now. I'm an amateur audiophile who tries to get the most musical enjoyment
I can out of budget equipment. I listen mostly to classical music, but also
enjoy jazz and some contemporary. I've still got some old records (Heifetz
playing the Kreutzer, for example) that I keep because I can't find the
music on CD. I try to get the best sound from the most modest equipment
simply because I'd rather spend my money on music than on equipment that I
can't hear a difference with (I built a tube pre-amp, experimented with
trying to hear the sonic differences between carbon and metal film
resistors, and so on). I tune into this and other groups to get some decent
advice on things like whether I can hook my Sennheiser 580's to the speaker
outs of my NAD 3020, whether or not I should make the leap to SACD or DVD
audio, what components have given good pleasure, and so on. After these few
years, over the various audio newsgroups, there are some posters I have come
to trust above all others, and who I think are more interested in audio and
music than slagging others (even if they do, at times, get caught in
maelstroms):

Howard Ferstler
Arny Krueger
Stewart Pinkerton
Tom Nousaine

Although I sometimes question their biases, I still appreciate and enjoy
reading:

John Atkinson
Bill Robertson from Uptown Audio

There are some other consistently good posters here that I've missed listing
here, and I'm sure that someone else can add to the list.

To those I've listed above, I sincerely thank you for your contributions.
Even if I don't always agree with you, I appreciate what you have to say
and, more than anything, you've taught me to trust my own ears. I'm sure
there are many others dipping in now and again who feel the same way that I
do. Keep the posts coming. You have your listeners.

Roland Goetz.