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dkersten:
It's funny because last night I was at a bar with some friends and my son showed up with a kid he has been hanging with for the past few weeks, and about halfway through the night the kid wanders off and shows back up at our table with his step dad, who happens to be a guy I worked with back in about 94.. I taught him 90% of what he knows actually, and a few years after I left that shop he became the manager of the whole store for a number of years.  Today he owns a home theater business and mostly does home automation lately.  I showed him pictures of the arcade cab I just finished and he was wowed.. Then he was talking about how he just met a guy who has been driving 10 hours away to get car audio work done by a kid who used to be a customer of mine and got into the business after I left it 15 years ago.  Turns out this guy was ALSO at the bar and a few minutes later he brings him over and introduces me.  He says "This is the OG of car audio around here.. he taught me most of what I know, and I trained the guy who you have been taking your car to."  I had to laugh because this isn't a huge city (100k), and even so many years after getting out of the business, a large number of the people who were my customers are in the business and everyone still knows who I am.  I don't do but maybe one audio system every couple years any more.. It can be fun once in a great while, but I lost my passion for it years ago, both the installation and the listening.. My last big system of my own focused more on integrating with factory equipment than going balls deep with power and volume... Getting a factory head unit to sound really good yet still look and feel like it is completely stock is more of what gets me going today..  And honestly, a halfway decent factory system with a subwoofer is sufficient enough to not warrant any kind of aftermarket addons.. Maybe I am just getting too old, lol.
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