I’m a metal veteran of over 20 years. My first CD purchase was Master of Puppets, which I played over and over on a Sony Discman and $10 pair of ear pad headphones. It didn’t take me long to branch out into Slayer, Megadeth, Fear Factory, and Obituary. A few years later thanks to Amazon I stumbled across In Flames and Colony, and the rest, as they say, is history. My interest in audio actually stemmed from home theater. (Who else had Terminator 2 on LaserDisc?) I started with some Yamaha speakers from Sears, and moved up from there. I’ve since moved on from that hobby to focus purely on music, via a large variety of both headphones and speakers