GETTING INTO THE AUDIO BUSINESS
There was a time when I thought about going into the hi-fi manufacturing business. After all, I’d been in the pro audio business, building amplifiers, foldback speakers, guitar cabs and PA systems before I’d entered the publishing game. But somehow, I just couldn’t seem to extricate myself from hi-fi magazines and newspapers, not least because there was always another deadline looming and I just couldn’t seem to see my way clear to telling a publisher and/or an editor that we would soon be parting ways. Actually, truth be told, I did really nothing not because of deadlines, but because I was born both a procrastinator and with a highly risk-adverse personality. And while being risk-adverse has often worked against me in my life, both personally and professionally, it has at least…