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the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile

@foggyus91 suggested/pushed/encouraged me to start a thread about this. It was related to Darko's post about 12 audiophile misconceptions. One was that we are all about music - vs gear. I think that subject has been chewed up already a 100 times. I am not sure anyone has anything new to say. 

However, that made me think about the day I turned into an audiophile.

It was when I bought my first "gateway" product that was affordable but audiophile quality and led me to explore more and tweak and switch and experiment and never be fully content but always be smiling when I turned the power on. It's been about the sound and not the music and that's fine. But I realize now that those Monitor Audio speakers I bought from craigslist were my gateway drug  devil

Were you always an audiophile or was there such a moment and a piece of hardware that made the difference?

 

(Lastly, I am very uneasy and on the fence about this forum and starting a thread - for my last correspondence with the moderators. What I learned should bother anyone who cares about fairness or even the appearance of it. I can't discuss it because it will get removed - I tried, my comment lived for less than 5 minutes, )

 

gano
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bdp24
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After hearing ESL’s in 1970 and ’71, the next step was hearing Magneplanar Tympani T-I’s and the Decca Blue phono pickup in 1973. The system was brought to Livermore California by Bill Johnson, including his Audio Research SP-3, and Dual 51 and 75 power amps. Mind blown. laugh

 

allanblissett
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Kenwood model 600 intergrated amplifier.

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maprik
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A friend had an NAD integrated driving Klipsch Heresys and a Denon CD player in his very large basement. I was hooked. 

mirolab
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I got hooked on audio at a very young age watching the reels spinning on my dad's tape R2R tape player.  In college, I thought my JVC system was awesome, until I wandered into Buzz Jensen's Sound Advice audio store, and discovered real high-end gear.  They actually let me home-demo an NAD 3020 integrated, and it blew away my 70wpc-rated JVC receiver.   I ended up buying an NAD 3150 amp and Boston Acoustics A400 speakers.  My world was changed forever!!  I actually STILL use the 3150 amp in my garage today.     

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