when you yell at the digital cable box because each music channel plays the same 100 songs day after day .. month after month .. all year long.
when you look for high quality audio prints (24bit 96khz) and only see 80 results.. and some websites show 0 results.
when you realize other people are listening to a lower signal to noise ratio and dont seem to care.
when you walk by a portable radio at the park and realize nobody cared to raise the treble to an appropriate level.
when your father has two jensen 15 inch woofers and you wonder how they sound year after year.
when your neighbor is an audio provider for concerts and you enjoy watching the speakers blow the air in the doorway in and out enough to shut the door.
when that same neighbor comes over for a quick visit to clam down after saying 'one of my amps started to fry and i had to throw it in the tub' and all you can think and feel is 'those things sometimes happen' instead of getting nervous about a fire.
when you are listening to the layers of math in the voice coil as the front dash speaker splashes the audio up on the windshield.
when you install your first car radio at age 14 and it works perfectly for years.
when you were dumb enough to run too many speakers off of a small 'booster' amplifier and it goes up in smoke.
when your alpine radio goes up in smoke from high volume levels and you are happy to get rid of the tin sound.
when you realize the piece that went up in smoke on the alpine radio was about 400 degrees farenheit and you arent worried about the circuit board, but fear something like a wire nearby caught on fire.
when you watch your cousin use a soldering iron to piece together his r/c car kit when you were 10 years old and cant help but think to yourself 'those soldering irons write something of genius and age'
when your cousin gets two twelve inch subwoofers in the back of his trunk and realizing you want some too but would need to wait your turn because you are only 11 years old.
when your cousins subwoofers are loud enough to bounce a penny on the trunk lid, but you dont care about the loudness being too loud.
when your cousin is giving a demonstration of his new subwoofers and instead of wanting more loudness, you wanted more slew.
when your cousin pulls out the tape deck and you realize there is way too much inside of what he is carrying around to be considered not important.
when each time you hear somebody listening to their music loudly, you reserve a small spot for them in your heart.
