Some viruses never get fully eradicated from one's body; they merely become latent and the weirdest triggers get them reactivated.
Such was the story with my just dropping of the radar here, focusing on other things in life, when lo and behold, out of nowhere, I was reorganizing my storage cabinet to make room for a few lens boxes. While throwing out some, dusting off others, in there lay my LCD-3 case, headphones snuggly tucked inside, untouched in well over a year. As with an old - but not the best or quite close - friend, whom one hasn't seen in ages but encounters purely by chance, I felt - little out of courtesy, little out of guilt - that I should spend a little time together; see what's up, as it were.
As it turns out, there was plenty to reminisce over, to recall moments of joy, of pensiveness, of lightness and of darkness. It was not much later that I decided I've been missing out on the whole experience of music for too long, and started reading this site again. Since I didn't want to spend too much time and money at this point, I went for what seem to be a decent way to restart; I ordered the new LCD-4 and also a GS-X mk II amp. I'm leaving my current DAC setup as is, since I still like the way it sounds.
So to those with whom I've had the pleasure of interacting here over the years, hello again.
