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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I was raised in a house of music. My dad had a McIntosh system playing through a set of Klipschorns. 1970s and the music was getting so good but my dad was stuck in the 50s. Had to play my albums when he was at work, he just could not get into Led Zeppelin. But dam I could rock the house when he was not home.
My first personal system was a massive Sony receiver and a top of the line Sony bio-tracer turntable thru some Advent speakers. I took that system to college for four years but upped the speakers to Klipsch Cornwalls. My room mates and neighbors loved me but only on the weekends.After college I married my high-school sweetheart and moved into a nice townhouse. She was soooooo pissed when she came home one day to a set of Klipshhorn (in a freaking townhouse). That quickly faded after she listened to them for a while. She married crazy so she has to deal with crazy.Twenty years of kids and work slowed me down but music was always playing in our house. My oldest son got the bug early and took advantage of me and my gear when he got his own house. He took all my albums and the Bio-tracker turntable and some of my dads old mac stuff and built a killer setup while I was playing Golf.So not to be outdone by a kid (he's 29) I kicked it up last year and now it is game on. He can try but I have crazy on my side and a wife who loves music and puts up with crazy.