Remember it like it was yesterday. My daughter was born 20 yrs and 2 months ago. I had ProAc Studio 1's percariously perched up on spiked & lead-filled Chicago stands...would have to get rid of them as soon as she began to crawl and find some baby-proof speakers and the system would have to be stacked up on the living room built-ins. That journey led me to owning 4 different tube amps within a 6-7 month period.
The system was: ProAc Studio 1's, B&K EX442 Sonata, Music Reference RM5 mk II, Rega Planar 3, Pioneer TX9800, Onkyo cd player, Nakamichi BX125 all neatly displayed on a Target TT5T rack
In the next 6-7 months:
TRADED: ProAc's for super ugly but great sounding 8417 based Paoli M60 monoblocks
SOLD: B&K ex442
TRADED: Paoli's + $200 for cj MV50
ON LOAN: CELESTION C-7'S & Infinity Qe's
TRADED: cj MV50 + $325 for Music Reference RM9 as cj didn't mate up with Music Reference preamp
ACQUIRED: The smaller Advent loudspeaker - couldn't afford anything else with the new baby
TRADED: Music Reference RM-9 for AMC CVT3030 + CD6
ACQUIRED: Chateau Reference 1.5 speakers
A few months later hit audio rock bottom as I had a Mitsubishi DA-R7 receiver, ADS CM6 spkrs, and gave away 100's of Stereophile and TAS magazines and then got completely out of audio for the next 3 years as raising a child was much more important