Music to my ears...

It had always been my childhood craving to listen to my favorite music collection in a powerful audio system with stereo speakers(5.1, 7.1 and THX were still in development) with loud volume. I still remember vividly how I convinced by dad to buy me a Philips Powerhouse Stereo music system with 1100 Watts of PMPO(Peak Music Power Output) when I was 17. I was on the phone with him, trying to convince him that I would get into a good college and he need not worry about paying a hefty college tuition and that I can use some of that money to buy this dream machine of mine so I could listen to my music collection, the way I always wanted to. I still cannot believe how all the stars aligned that day, he actually agreed to shell out about Rs.6000+(about $130, which was a huge sum those days) for that music system. Somehow I could remember this incident vividly because that was probably the first time in my life my dad had agreed to spend such a hefty sum for something I wanted so badly.
Why am I reminiscing that today? Here I am sitting in front of a 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound system listening to some of my all time favorite songs(thanks to my wife for getting me those wonderful songs) with a volume that I had always wanted to listen those songs in and having the whole house to just myself. It got me thinking as to when was the last time, I got to listen something like this and only thing I could remember was that Philips Powerhouse music system and the umpteen number of songs that I had listened on that.
I don't get those cravings these days because I know I can feed it just by click of a button. But I am reliving those cherished memories now as I am typing this. I wanted to capture this moment and the only way I could think of doing that was to blog about it. Thanks dad!!!... For those moments and the one that I am cherishing now.