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A tribute thread for Lynnm


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I think it would be a great idea for everyone that has a memory of Lynnm, to post it here.

Go find some old post of where he helped you and paste them here, or just type your story. I know that most people here did not ever meet him in person but you felt like you knew him.

I was thinking that after a couple of weeks that Bob C. might take this thread and e-mail it to his family. They might not know the extent of his extended Klipsch family.

I know that I would like to hear how one of my loved ones helped other people.

This would be something we could give to the family that they could enjoy for a long time.

Maybe Amy could keep this at the top for a while.

I know I enjoyed reading his threads even tho sometimes they went over my head.

Steve

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Lynn was one of the first personalities that stood out when I first

came to this forum. I cannot say more good about him than what has

already been said. I will say this lose has really effected me more

than some of my own blood. I would have loved to have met Lynn.

Wouldn't it be a nice tribute to resurrect many of his past threads he

started and continue the conversation. All current posts would then be

started by Lynn.

I noticed one has already reappeared.

That might be a nice tribute.

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I never met him, but over time on a forum it's not hard to reach some

conclusions about many of the people whose posts you read.

My sense of Lynn was that of a intelligent man of honest bearing, keen

wit, gentle and sympathetic, knowledgable about his hobby and

passionate about his music. I also suspect that to meet him would

be to instantly become a friend, to share a laugh, a confidence and to

rest easy in his presence.

When I first got here he was most helpful, later on, very appreciative

of a small favor I did him by sending him a sealed organ music

lp, and often amused by my various hijinks. He was an earnest

believer in the forum dictum that there are no stupid questions. He

also gave very good advice that you could trust knowing its source.

Late last night when I read of his passing I sat down and played The

Commodores song "Nightshift" a wonderfully dynamic tune in tribute to

soul singers like Marvin Gaye who have passed into the great

beyond. I doubt if it was Lynn's particular style of music but it

did my heart good to think that perhaps Lynn is with them now voices

raised in soulful melodies. I also know he would have loved the first

few very deep organ like notes at the beggining of the song.

If you have tune play it and think of him. If you don't I've

downloaded it onto a wave file. PM me and I'll ship it to

you. A poor way, but a way I guess, to share some thoughts and

feelings over Lynn's passing.

They might not quite fit perfectly but I would like to close by sharing

a few quotations on life and death from the source of Lynn's avatar-

Mark Twain:

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Notebook, 1898

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will

be sorry.

- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of the Extraordinary Twins

Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a

fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain; a

dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights,

ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries,

griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats,humiliations, and

despairs--the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity; but death was

sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and

the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best

friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

- Letters from the Earth

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Although Lynn and I never met either, I did send him a couple LPs including John Coltrane's, "Blue Train" which he enjoyed very much. We exchanged quite a few emails over the years and somewhere in his replies was always "Thanks mi amigo."

I still cannot believe he's gone and this happened so quickly. I always looked forward to his posts and he will be missed dearly.

My prayers go out to you and your loved ones mi amigo.

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I never had much chance to chat with Lynn but I sure did get a charge out of his Avatar. I'm still trying to figure out who that is a picture of.........

Looks like Samuel Clemens to me....a fitting avatar.

kh

Later in life, he was known as that curmudgeon, Mark Twain.

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Lynn liked to be a bit of a curmudgeon.

Rick

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Lynnm recommended the Discwasher system and it was a darn fine recommendation. Each time I bring mine out to clean some vinyl, Ill think of lynnm and the many excellent and interesting posts he offered her on the Klipsch Forum. A good guy, for sure!

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Back in April when I posted a pic of my cat Sammy sitting up against my 300B SET amp, Lynn (in all his infinite wisdom) made this humorous comment:

That pic reminds me of the day that we bought our ASL AQ1003DT. My wife said It sounds beautiful but what if one of our girls decides to sniff one of the big tubes ??

I looked at her and said Just Once Dear...Just Once!!

Fortunately it has not been an issue...so far!

I got a kick out of it...

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I remember when Lynnm first started posting I thought he was a girl...lol. he sent me a pm (which a now cannot find) explaining he was, in fact, male and asked me questions about my system and where I lived. He was a friendly, open and caring individual. I will remember him fondly for his sense of humor. tony

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