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Actually I think I was clueless until a second part of 90s, perhaps the late 90s. You know it is kind of strange: I did audio kind of all my life but I never knew, cared and was a part of the high-end hobby. All those valleys and summits of audiophilism never were a part of my awareness. Sometimes on mid 90s when some friends of mine pulled me into the hi-fi world I was kind of surprised: it was entertaining but at the same times it was completely irrelevant and completely not beneficial for who I was.. Interestingly that I (as I see it now) had no serious intentions or objectives at that time: I was listening different systems and components, acknowledge the differents but it all was not connected and did not serve any serious depth.

Somewhere in the second part of 90s I approached Lamm electronics, bought a few components and detected that I begin to develop a new and totally different visions about audio. I do not know if it was due to the Lamm electronics (if so, then it was because the L1 preamp – the most “politically” and “tactically” remarkable component Lamm even did – read my article about the X-factor) or it was just a time-consequence with some other processes that took place in me but I quite rapidly become to develop a very personal “every-connected” visions about audio. At that time I was engaged in quite heavily interactions with Lamm himself and many subjects that we were unavailable for each other very stimulating for me. (Vladimir might be, or at least was, quite interesting person and particularly if the subjects were not audio-related – in many subject of audio he acts more like a paranoiac psycho than as a rational thinker). There were some other people and events that took place at that time or that are taking place now. All of them bult up a new for me, and helped and me understand for a different perspective, many aspects or relationship between a person audio and music. Somewhere in the very end of 90s I come across to an article by A. Likhnitsky. The article was about some kind of semi-typical for him foolishness but the author’s specific view on the specific minor subject was a great trigger to me. Many things that were in me and that defined who I was were after then connected with many things that I knew about audio, life and world and I ended up with a very flexible and very complete view.  It was quite interesting feeling that let me to view audio not as a self-contained parts of my time spending but more like am organic fabric that I can touch and use in any way I wish.

I think that from that moment I became “not clueless” and my actions and my thinking about audio began to have some sense. Somewhere in beginning 2001-02 I started to feel that my relationship with Lamm begun to be too annoying for me and that I was beginning to develop a strong rejections to the many manifestations of Lamm’s idiosyncrasies. I withdrew myself from the relationship with him (too much unnecessary lie was already intolerable) and it was a very nice stimulation of my visions, my mental projections of audio and it was a very beneficial for me experience.

My views and my clamed understanding of audio are in a way a collective composite awareness presented via a prism of a steaming pile of me myself. I think all those guys that I dealt within the last 10 years and all those events that I was involved into helped me to develop something the I find is very essential for audio understanding: a sensitivity to the mechanism according to which musicality can be connected with the rest of own experiences via the audio methods.

So, will I consider in 10 years that I was clawless in 2005? Probably. I think that our ability of “learning to live” make it as a part of the game…

Rgs,
The Cat

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