Is your now then?


What was your first significant experience with quality audio (then) and how does it compare with your present system (your now).
Do you think we strive to return to the past and remain in those influential times? Are our choices psychological, nostalgic even....?

Mine is a mixed bag. Solid state with turntable were my beginnings. Presently SS with digital sources trumping my TT most days. I am still enamored by albums and uber turntables, but budget constraints and the ease of digital is presently winning.
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Mid sixties - friends dad had a Garrard 301, 3 X 16 inch SME arms, ortofon cartridges, Leak amplification and Wharfedales built into the room corners - 5-6 feet high.  He used to play our Dylan and Stones albums for us kids when we brought them around.  And I was off......

Have from time to time heard systems (my current one being no exception) which have to be better and surely outperformed that primal system.   One of the other systems was a million dollar set up, with several being in excess of a couple hundred grand.  Not a single one has given me the same chills!   It was the sheer musicality, I think, which I am still searching for.  But then, what do I know.