I’m in my 50’s and still have not achieved the "dream system" but I’m close. I’ve been in the hobby since 13 years old when my mom bought me a radio shack all in one receiver with an 8 track player! Back then I thought it was the cat’s ass! Lol... from then on I was hooked on achieving better sound.
In my junior & senior years in high school, I eventually bought a much better radio shack receiver and the optimus 10 speakers, which back then got great reviews in stereo review magazine. They were impressive speakers with 8 inch woofers and 10 inch passive radiators. I even put off buying my first beater car to buy instead a $600 f770 Aiwa 3 head cassette deck! I still own and use it today...From there I moved up to jensen system 400 acoustic suspension speakers etc etc ....
I also owned some nice Rotel equipment and a beautiful denon direct drive in the late 80’s early 90’s, along with B&W standmount speakers.
Moving forward to today, I’m a proud owner of Tannoy’s and a sugden class A amplifier etc....to complete my dream would be to acquire a Linn Sondek lp12....
