Which components knocked you out on first listen?

Old tannoy 15 incher with a tweeter in the center. This sounded so realistic! I went up to a grand piano, and closed my eyes, and played a few notes, and I had a hard time distinguishing them apart! I had a chance to talk to the famous maestro Jung Myung whun, and he said it sounded better than all the orchestras he conducts! (McIntosh amp + Cd player)

I love the sound for their realism, as well as for their profound spirit they seem to convey in classical music.

There are soft and mushy sounding upscale speakers that sounds glorious, but listening to them for awhile, makes me miss a realistic sounding speaker. I think it would be nice to have a several set of speakers connected by speaker selector like Niles (ebay). Many audio lovers go that rout I heard, coz different music sounds better on different speakers, and buying is fun (the real reason) :>)

Phase Linear"Flame"400/DQ-10s/Revox Reel playing "Blood Sweat&Tears.Sorry can not remember the pre-amp.Was first lesson in the all audio is not the same school.

Back in the 1970s it was listening to Altec Model 19s and Tannoy Monitor Golds.

More recently, upgrading from a Quad 34/606 to Meitner PA6+/MTR-101s, and from a Sony CDP-X779ES to a Sony SCD-777ES with Allen Wright analogue output stage.

Cheers,

JT

Original Martin-Logan CLS with Entec Lf30 subs driven by Audio Research D115mkII amp and SP10 preamp

Quad 63s with Entec SW1 subs driven by Spectral DMA50 amps and DMC10 preamp

Avantgarde Duos driven by Audionote Kondo (?) integrated amp

Wilson Watt/Puppy 7s driven by Jadis Defy 7 amp and Hovland HP100 preamp

goes to the following scenario/combo:

1977
SAE MK (don't even recall the numbers) amp and preamp
Technics (for God's sake) TT with SME Arm -- Empire cart
Driving Dahlquist DQ-10s -- The music: Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin -- in those years they put more raw emotion into the music than anyone.

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