I think it all started with me questing for a home audio setup that would reproduce music as close to 'live' as possible, as if I were actually there listening to the music... shades of that old Memorex commercial 'Is it live or Memorex?'...

I wanted to hear an artist take in a breath or smack their lips or where I could hear the instruments in 3D space.

When working long hours, often I just wanted to get home, sink into my sofa and turn on the music -- let it carry me away...

I looked at it not so much as an audio system, but as a teleporter machine of sorts that would musically transport me to a place where there is no space and time... Where the music and me would like become one... and be interwined in a deep conversation of sorts, but with no words...

Because in a sense music is a non verbal language onto itself -- that it more speaks to our hearts and emotions rather than our analytical brain.  And even before we had spoken language, we likely had music of sorts.

It's in our DNA, and elementally connected to the ebb and flow of sounds all around us in nature... from the sound of ocean waves or water running in a river to the sound of rain in a forest...but also connected to us inwardly like the sounds of our breathing or our hearts beating... and that these inner and outer sounds are fused into some kind of orchestral whole... It's like we found our own voices to join in the chorus surrounding us.

Think about it, think that every one of us has music, something we carry with us wherever we go... It's something woven into our daily lives our whole lifetime... and connects us all...