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The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards

I did have some others before, but the first system that hooked me on this passion/hobby and would still be pretty good today was:

Stacked Large Walnut Advents, with the top ones upside down so the tweeters were close together,
Yamaha CA-1000 integrated (usually run in the class A mode)
Yamaha top end direct drive turntable (YP-800?) with ADC XLM II cartridge 
Yamaha CT-7000 tuner
Early Monster interconnects and speaker cables 
Advent cassette deck
Teac reel to reel with 10" reels (model ?)

The first thing(s) that were replaced was the Large Advents that gave way to a pair of 
Dahlquist DQ-10.

From that system I have gone on to several others that I have enjoyed, but I do remember that first one.







jusam
rbarre
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Well here is real vintage 1963.Acoustech pre-amp.Power-amp? Maybe a Lafayette Radio model, but I can’t remember..
Goodman speakersVoice of Music changer.
1967: Changed the pre and power amps for McIntosh C-26 and MC-2505. Actually got a trade-in for this purchase.Kept the 15" Goodman woofer and installed Bozak mid, tweeter, and crossover in a custom speaker cabinet. My changer was a Benjamin Miracord with a Sure V15 diamond needle.I also added a McIntosh MR-71 tuner.I remember the sound quality increased megafold.The McIntosh equipment is still going strong.

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cincyjim
126 posts
 
That would have to be a Marantz 2270 receiver and AR 5 speakers after I got home from the military in 1973.
wehamilton
65 posts
 
It was 1968/69 and I was a freshman engineering student. I used some of my student loan money to buy a top of the line Fisher receiver, Wharfdale speakers with 12 inch woofers, and a Dual turntable with a Shure V15-Type 2 cartridge. I thought it sounded great but I’m sure it would have sounded much better with today’s cables.

The system before that sounded terrible but was the best I could afford before I got the genius idea to use my student loan money on audio equipment instead of tuition. I made some bookshelf speakers using 6"x9" drivers from a car (I was really poor!), then I bought a used receiver out of some old console model that was sitting on a table at Olson Electronics (just a naked chassis) and built an enclosure for it. I then added a Gerrard turntable with a good cartridge. The system sounded truly awful, but primarily because of my homemade speakers. I made many modification to them before throwing them out. I kept the turntable and started the component upgrade path that I’ve been one ever since.
shtinkydog
702 posts
 

AMC 2030 tube monos

AMC 1030 tube pre

Pioneer Elite PD-65 transport

Adcom GDA-600 DAC

Definitive BP10 speakers (quickly replaced by NHT 2.5i)

All entry level MIT cables


newbee
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1985+/-. ARC SP10II, Oracle Delphi, Micro Benz Glider, Threshold SA3, Thiels CA3 w/Mod. Sounded pretty good to me at the time, but in retrospect I wish I had my present set of Silverline Bolero's. I could really still enjoy this combo (ex Thiels) if I had it today, but one must move on mustn't one.
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