As of 2015 and for the most of 2016, I have been questioning if I should go on and continue to review components for an industry I fell in love with back in the early 1990's. It's been a rough patch, three deaths in the family, shoulder surgery and most recently two broken ankles which I only recovered from less than a month ago. During this period I had a lot of time to reflect and was almost ready to give it all up, in the end I realized that I still enjoy giving my opinions, I still enjoy the grueling test sessions and most of all the opportunity to see new components as they arrive on the market. So what was really bothering me the most? Health and Family, hopefully with the recent pitfalls behind me and as long as I have my health and I can still function as head of the family, I will continue to provide our readers with my opinions and thoughts objectively and at times subjectively as needed.