Decisive moments your your audio journey

In 2002 I and a friend of mine a couple time a week visiting different audiophiles homes and listened different systems.
On day we visited a man who had a strange system with Lowther PM4 in Oris 150 horns and 15 inch EV mid-bass woofers plus subwoofer. Lowethers were driven by Bottlehead 2a3 SET monoblocks. When we listened this setup we can believe what such sound is possible. All other systems we had listened before sounded like toy boomboxes compared to this system.
We were like a medieval knights who suddenly saw modern combat aircrafts and tanks.
Since then the direction I choose in audio is high sensitive speakers with SET amplification.

When I at first listened my friend’s McIntosh MC30 vintage monoblocks vs my own Plinius 8200 integrated on my Spendor 2/3 speakers 20 years ago.

I will never come back to transistors after that.

When I listened Chopin LP on my Nottingham Spacedeck in comparison to my friend’s Lenco L75.

Lenco killed Nottingham in term of Pace, Rhythm, and Timing! Lenco also was better in reproduction tone of the piano.

I will never go back to belt drive turntables after that!