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What was the first system you heard that made you think the high end made sense

I am sure I cannot be the only person here who can recall the day, and indeed the very system that made them think 'oooohhhhh yesssss - I get it - I understand - and I absolutely love it!'

In my case I attended a HiFi Show in Heathrow at the Renaissance Hotel. It was the GT Audio room hosted by Graham Tricker. The parts comprised:

DPS turntable- Schroeder arm - jan allaerts cartridge
Tron Pre-amp
Avante Garde Uno's

In all honesty I still remember the day now. It was so musical and had the ability to connect me to the music. When I went for a full demo at Grahams home I came to understand the magic of horns, valves and imaging. 

lohanimal
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lou_setriodes
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Actually hearing SET amps was the 2nd time high end made sense.

The 1st time was when I wandered into Chestnut Hill Audio in Old City, Philadelphia and heard little concrete speakers, Rauna Tyrs thru a 70 wpc B&K ST140 amp. Eye opening! Way better than the Pyramid Met 7’s that I had listened to for a long time in other stores and always coveted
tomcarr
1,501 posts
 
Houston, 1982, Audio Concepts.
 Linn LP-12, Mark Levinson, Magnepans.
Unbelievably wonderful sound.

Tom
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gillatgh
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Actually when I put together my first seperates, all adcom, amps, cd, processr and Polk srs sda 3.1TL. 1984 man I was in heaven. Since then I've come a long way and invested way too much in trial and error. Only remaining pieces are the Polk in my HT system and 1 adcom 555II as spare, just in case.
koestner
665 posts
 
In 1971 I was only 11 and had a garage sale to raise money for a better stereo. $320 later I got a Pioneer receiver and a pair of Rectilinear 10B speakers from Tech Hi-Fi. Now I'm not saying they were high end, but at age11 they were the coolest. The weird thing is while my current system blows the original away, my memory tells me I was more impressed with my first one.
mesch
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1969, Dynaco ST-70, Dynaco PAS3, AR Xa TT, AR3a speakers.  
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