Early 80's - late 70's best audio products


With the intoduction of CD in 1982, apparently, the Hi-end audio equipment either dissapearead, either became too expensive, either started to use cheaper components, etc.

This is my perspective. And now as a historical curiosity - Which components (speakers, pre-amplifiers, amplifiers, tuners, turntable, tonearm and cartridge) will you vote as the best components for the 1978-1982 period.

Thank you for your time
rmihai
A couple of my favorite geezer memories I didn't see (or missed) above:
Infinity Black Widow tonearm
Sonus Blue phono cartridge
Micro Acoustics piezo-electric phono cartridge
CD4 and SQ Quadraphonic "decoders"
Garrard Zero 100 turntable
Don't forget the following:

Technics SP-10 mkI & mkII motor
Tri-planar tone-arm
QUAD 63 ESL
KEF 105rr speakers
Marantz 1060 amp