Lemme see -
1) Learn how to properly set up a turntable a couple of decades before it happened.
2) Learn a whole lot more about actually working on things myself, ie. understand circuits better, become truly competent with a soldering iron. I'd never have become a DIY guy, but being able to do basic things myself and a more "hands-on" approach to troubleshooting would have been interesting.
3) That I'd had more funds available sooner to put into good gear. I don't regret many of the purchases I've made, but that many of them were of necessity financial stepping-stones to what I really would have liked in the first place. As a means to an end it has been a good path, but it makes everything take longer than I'd prefer. Ah well, at least I've learned the virtue of patience.
4) That I'd owned an absolutely killer big system back in the mid-80s when I had my huge downtown loft instead of a 25w/ch integrated and a pair of EPI M50s. If they hadn't torn the building down I'd still be living there, no doubt of that.
1) Learn how to properly set up a turntable a couple of decades before it happened.
2) Learn a whole lot more about actually working on things myself, ie. understand circuits better, become truly competent with a soldering iron. I'd never have become a DIY guy, but being able to do basic things myself and a more "hands-on" approach to troubleshooting would have been interesting.
3) That I'd had more funds available sooner to put into good gear. I don't regret many of the purchases I've made, but that many of them were of necessity financial stepping-stones to what I really would have liked in the first place. As a means to an end it has been a good path, but it makes everything take longer than I'd prefer. Ah well, at least I've learned the virtue of patience.
4) That I'd owned an absolutely killer big system back in the mid-80s when I had my huge downtown loft instead of a 25w/ch integrated and a pair of EPI M50s. If they hadn't torn the building down I'd still be living there, no doubt of that.