YOUR AUDIOPHILE JOURNEY WHEN DID IT START AND HOW DID YOU GET TO YOUR DREAM SYSTEM?

Perhaps as at the age of ~12 in 1964 at night holding my ear up to the old tubed counsel radio in my bedroom with the volume turned down to a whisper so my parents could not hear me in the next room.

Irresponsible purchase of a Marantz 2040 integrated when I got to college in 1972. My first bank loan in 1979 when I first started working for a Pass - Threshold s500 ($5K, $20K in todays dollars).

Continuous pursuit through my home system, headphone system (Traveling first for 10 years as a geologist, then as traveling executive, work system (Headphone), Portable when I lived in hotels.

And finally the two last upgrades, before retirement and after retirement.

@ghdprentice love this story.  Music is an escape. But it to is an amazing journey. I have owned def tech, classe, bowers and Wilkins. Ayon, sonus faber, revel, Vienna acoustics , Resonessence, Bryston, KR AUDIO, SOLUTION and Now my final system with Infigo Audio electronics , gato speakers and rel subwoofers. 

@ghdprentice All that effort building a state of the art system, only to abandon using the whole phono front end, and your thousands of records. 

When I started playing guitar and making my own DYI electronics. This gave me better understanding of sound, distortions, tubes vs transistors. Later, with masters in digital signal processing - better understanding of DACs and network operations.