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Your First System

This should be good!!! Most of us have been in this expensive hobby for years now and have worked our way up to components we only dreamed of. I want to know what was your first system of separate components going back as far as you can remember. My first consisted of a Pioneer SX-680 receiver, a Technics SLD-1 turntable (I think that's the right model #), a Sharp tapedeck, and KLH floorstanding speakers. I was 16 at the time and thought I was the biggest badass on the block. Now, 20+ years later I have a ML 334, Meridian 507 CD, CJ PV10A, Canton Ergo 900 speakers, and a Transparent Power Isolator 4. I'm in the process of upgrading to a ML 390. It goes without saying the IC's and speaker cables are top notch as well. I know my system is WAAAYYYYY down the foodchain compared to what I've seen here but It would be interesting to see what everyone started out with.
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gonglee3
304 posts
 
Sony str receiver
Technics Turntable
Bose 301

I wasn't really happy with the sound - but didn't know why, so I kept listening to it all through my college years. After all, it was B o s e - how can it not sound good?

Sony and Technics are b i g companies too, so I thought they must sound good - perhaps it was just the condition of my records or something.

I neither had the money nor the knowledge to see through the marketing hype... I could have had a much nicer system even for that money...

It wasn't about one year ago I started this audio-quest, thanks to internet and all the guys in sights like this. I spent as much as a brand new car on this hobby, only to listen to a kenwood exec system I got for $159.

I am still lost - but I am having fun.
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
In 1983 I got a JVC Home system/Boombox that had dual decks, a hide-away turntable with push button motoriezed ejection system. It had a battery pack to use as a boombox but at 27lbs it was hard to carry around and ate batteries fast......but man did I think it was cool! It cost me $450.00 and I thought I was the coolest kid around, I was really just a very young audio nerd! I think the first LP I actually bought was by the "Thompson Twins" oh man FLASSSSSSSH BAAACK!
kfarrand
1 posts
 
My first component system was Dynaco SCA-35 w AR-4xs and AR Turntable . . . Just bought an H.H. Scott LK-72 and Dynaco PAS-3 and Stereo 70 and am really looking forward to getting back to tubes with my small Maggies
david_berry
211 posts
 
JVC 2 channel receiver
Paradigm 7SE speakers
Yamaha CDX-5 (I believe) CDP - the cheapest one because CDs were the "perfect" sound anyway
Nakamichi BX-100 tape deck
Interconnects/speaker cable? Whatever was literally lying around
Bought all this new in 1987 with part of my student loan money :)
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mjcmt
710 posts
 
1970
Dynaco SCA 80 solid state integrated amp.
Thorens TD 125(?) w/integrated factory arm and Empire cartridge.
Larger Advent loudspeakers.
Scott LT-112B tuner.
16 brown lamp cord (thickest available-I new the value of good wire back then)
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