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Your Best Moment of Audio Exuberance

My girlfriend stayed home today while I drove her car (circa '98 BMW 740i with CD changing factory stereo) to a New Year's day party. While I find her 740i to be an underpowered, overweight, undersprung yuppie saloon with a screechy, bloated stereo to match, I must admit it was, nonetheless, great fun to crusie along at 80 MPH and ABSOLUTELY CRANK the Los Lobos CD that her brother gave me for Christmas. (The band was new to me -- has anyone heard "Oh Yeah" from This Time?) It almost reminded me of the good old days that got me into this insane hobby -- just being young, listening to music at high volumes and having a good old time. What setting, atmosphere, equipment or musical selection gives or reminds you of your happiest audio moments?
cwlondon
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pugstub
64 posts
 
First listen to Quad ESL 57. Scary and exciting at the same time.
perfectimage
406 posts
 
In the late eighties after I graduated high school I bought a very nice GMC Jimmy. It was all kidded up with mags, brush bars, tinted windows and a $3000.00 stereo. Back then it was the best you could by. Alpine and ADS. I wired two monster house speakers in the back and when partying in the woods I would pull them out and put them on the ground. If we werent partying we would drive around for hours with the volume all the way up. To loud to talk. Thats whats got me into hifi.
jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
Live music notwithstanding, my first real system, NAD3020 with Mission speakers and a Thorens turntable. I was blown away
sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
Four years ago when I got into this hobby. I made a big jump from a mass market Onkyo CD Player and Receiver to a Cambridge Audio CD6 and a used P55 amplifier. I found out what I had been missing.
woodfield
39 posts
 
Cranking Black Sabbath Volume 4 in a large basement rec room 20x30. A Mac 2100 and a C-26 running a pair of JBL C-50 S8R Olympus speakers. By the way I still don't hear very well.
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