"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;"
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Nay, nary a thought of sugar plums cavorting throughout my cranium. Perhaps I am an oddity, a warped Bombastic Baby Boomer squawking and screeching when Eisenhower was El Presidente of the land who evolved with the USA society through the years. Me, not Eisenhower. He's dead.
A proud ex-member of the Radio Shack free battery monthly club with the membership card ensconced in the comfy confines of my wallet until that awesome entity died an ignominious death thanks to ne'er-do-wells in a corporate boardroom lacking vision and awareness of current realities.
Wandering through the fog of life when the quad era enveloped the unwashed masses but my beloved Hai Karate smothered my stench (another deceased entity) as I observed but did not purchase quad when it filled the shelves. Sigh. Alas. Relentless unstoppable time (ignoring quantum mechanics in this diatribe) pushed me forward until that eventful day in 1992 at the hot but lacking humidity oven of Modesto, California, USA, Earth, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe, 95350 when, within the air-conditioned confines of the Starvation Army thrift store my wandering eyes settled upon the electronic device slumbering upon the shelf. The rest is history that shall be written about sometime in the future if my ancient, withered carcass and the addled brain it carries survives long enough to perform that deed.
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Anyway, my dreams are of acquiring quality quad gear at affordable-to-me prices. Dreams they are and will remain so unless extremely unlikely events occur. Sniff. Sigh. I miss my QRX-9001 and the three lesser Sansui quad receivers and sundry decoders and demodulators and quad 8-track and reel-to-reel tape units and CD-4 capable Technics turntable and several other quad receivers that came and went with that Sony an enjoyable fellow but ever-changing life has led to my final source of audio enlightenment:
How the mighty have fallen.
And a Merry Christmas to all and a groovy New Year and Keep On Quadding!!!!!!!!
