Last night I finally took on the challenge of cleaning out the top drawer of my filing cabinet — the one marked “Audio”. With the vengeance of Marie Kondo I pulled out the fat hanging folder labeled “My Stereo”. Over the next three hours I divvied it up into “My Stereo” (current), “Old Stereo” (inactive), “Former Stereo” (sold off), and one for “Turntable.” One piece of paper, one brochure, one sales receipt at a time. There were little block diagrams of systems built and dreamed of over the years. Print-outs from my years surfing rec.audio.high-end newsgroup. A letter to John Hellig of Musical Designs documenting my trip to CES in Chicago in 1993.An obituary letter of the death of my friend John Barnes of Audio Unlimited in Denver. Linda had warned me that papers would be the hardest part of decluttering. Those five inches of file space were a deep dive into my three decades of being an audiophile, and almost as many years as a writer.