Decisive moments your your audio journey

Three times with my current system build up.

1. adding AGD Audion mono blocks. For the first time I heard musician’s phrasing.

That is the most subtle and most profound.

2. adding a Lyra Atlas SL cartridge. The detail and imaging went threw the roof.

3. adding Townshend Podiums under my speakers. The speakers at least doubled in perceived price. In a real way, the most important.

Around 1976 when I accidentally pressed the FM button on my dad's quality Grundig radio. At the time there were only 2 (pirate) stations broadcasting on the entire band range. But the SQ over MW was spectacular. Hooked to High fidelity ever since :-)

Supex 900 on a Grace 707 arm - first taste of a technicolor moving coil

1970. The Allman Brothers live at the Tea Party in Boston. My first rock concert. Blew my brain away. I have been chasing that sound ever since. I had been to several Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts at Boston Symphony Hall but none of them made the impression on me that the Allmans did. Greg's Leslie still reverberates in my head. 

I visited Audio Innovations (soon to be Audio Note) factory in Brighton, UK.  Listened to the Voyd turntable and some AI monoblock tube amps through Snell E speaker. Joan Sutherland materialised in the big room.