Your first component that was "special"

When I was in college I saved up and snagged a new Dual 1219 turntable with a Shure V15 cartridge, at the time, was "in heaven".

Hey Samhar,

I’m in Burbank CA and have some questions for you about local techs for my Eagle Kinetics 2 amp and my Dahlquist DQ-lp1 with pac power mod. Please shoot me an email at brettra2@yahoo.com.

Thanks!
Brett

@brettmcee, I lived in Burbank for years (over by the NBC studios. Have you eaten at Don Cuco's Mexican restaurant, right around the corner from Bob's Big Boy?), and found Tom Carione to be an excellent tech. He's at Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia, in the shop on Wednesday and Saturday. I too own both an Electron Kinetics Eagle 2A and Dahlquist LP-1, and would not hesitate to have him work on either.

I bought one of the first pairs of Infinity Servo Statiks from Woodland Stereo in the 1970’s. The crossover began to act up so I took it in to Walt Lewsadder, the owner of Woodland, who assured me that the folks at Infinity (Arnie Nudell) would repair it without cost. They had it for several months. I finally got tired of waiting. Walt offered to give me my money back, so I took it. Walt told me later that he took that pair home as his personal speakers. I think he regretted selling them in the first place. When they worked, they were amazing!

My cables! 

If I used  most of todays commercial offerings my system would sound mediocre.

Regards.