Is my now then? It is now.
My first experience with hi-fi was as a child being taken around Seattle as my parents shopped for a stereo system. This was in the early/middle ‘70s and they eventually acquired a Macintosh ss amp, preamp, tuner and speakers, B&O turntable and Sony cassette deck.
I drove that system hard in my teens, eventually blowing the speakers. Mile Nestorivic, recently moved to the area, swung by the house and retrieved and fixed them.
As I got a bit older, I started paying better attention to what I was hearing music on and had my parents system as my basis for comparison. I learned I like tubes after hearing a Marantz system, and that sound stuck with me.
I bought what I could afford when I was single, and less when I got married. Phase Linear, Carver, (Bob was a client of my father), dahlquist, entry level Nakamichi tape and CD players, “build your own” speakerlab kits (those were fun), etc… always knowing that there was better out there…. Just out of reach.
Fast forward 30 years, divorced and with means, I thought I’d revisit my youth so I purchased a Marantz 7, 8b & 10b, a Thorens td125mkII, along with a modern Marantz sacd-30n that streams as well, and a pair of Klipsch Cornwall IV’s.
To me… it sounds glorious. But I know there is so much better. And there always will be. That’s the nature of the game.
That’s why I purchased a Luxman class a integrated (second hand, arriving tomorrow!).
Because chasing that “ sound in our heads” is also the nature of this game.
thrive!
My first experience with hi-fi was as a child being taken around Seattle as my parents shopped for a stereo system. This was in the early/middle ‘70s and they eventually acquired a Macintosh ss amp, preamp, tuner and speakers, B&O turntable and Sony cassette deck.
I drove that system hard in my teens, eventually blowing the speakers. Mile Nestorivic, recently moved to the area, swung by the house and retrieved and fixed them.
As I got a bit older, I started paying better attention to what I was hearing music on and had my parents system as my basis for comparison. I learned I like tubes after hearing a Marantz system, and that sound stuck with me.
I bought what I could afford when I was single, and less when I got married. Phase Linear, Carver, (Bob was a client of my father), dahlquist, entry level Nakamichi tape and CD players, “build your own” speakerlab kits (those were fun), etc… always knowing that there was better out there…. Just out of reach.
Fast forward 30 years, divorced and with means, I thought I’d revisit my youth so I purchased a Marantz 7, 8b & 10b, a Thorens td125mkII, along with a modern Marantz sacd-30n that streams as well, and a pair of Klipsch Cornwall IV’s.
To me… it sounds glorious. But I know there is so much better. And there always will be. That’s the nature of the game.
That’s why I purchased a Luxman class a integrated (second hand, arriving tomorrow!).
Because chasing that “ sound in our heads” is also the nature of this game.
thrive!