I'm thinking it was:
Totem Model One speakers
Sima PW 3000 integrated amp
Adcom's GCD first cd player
Straight Wire IC |
RTR III speakers, Kenwood receiver, Harmon Kardon CD player, Kenwood dual cassette deck, 12 guage romex speaker wires. |
SOTA Sapphire/Magnepan Unitrac/Grace F9E Ruby (still use them, w/Soundsmith cartridge re-tip)
Mark Levinson ML-1 preamp (still use its phono section, accessed via tape outs). Also briefly owned a pair of Marantz 1's and a Marantz 7 around that time.
Various power amps, including:
Marantz 2's (wonderful!!)
Marantz 9's
Threshold S300
Carver M400t (vastly better than earlier non-t versions, and a very respectable performer, at least when paired with easy to drive speakers).
Stax Lambda Pro Headphones w/Stax ED-1 Diffuse Field Equalizer (still use them).
Rotel RCD-855 CD Player.
Various FM tuners, including:
Two different Marantz 10B's
Carver TX-11
H. H. Scott 311D + Fisher MPX-100
Fisher FM90X + MPX-100.
Teac Cassette Deck.
Pentagram P-10 Speakers (Revised Version) (little known and under-appreciated by some; these were excellent speakers that served me well for many years). Also briefly owned two different pairs of large vintage Tannoy speakers and a pair of B&W 801's around that time.
Regards,
-- Al |
I was just out of college and flat broke, so all I had was a crappy boombox. As soon as I really started making money, sadly nearly 8 years later, I immediately started assembling a good stereo. The rest, as they say, is history. |
In '93 my system hadn't changed since the mid-70s. Dahlquist DQ-10 speakers, Epicure One amp (125 WPC), Audio Research SP3A1 preamp, Lenco L75 turntable, ADC XLM III cartridge, Nakamichi 550 cassette deck. No CD player then, and still none today. |
Linn LP-12/Ittok/not sure about cart
JVC CDP
Spectral MS-One or maybe Melos SHA-1
ARC Classic 30
Quad 57s |
Sansui B2101 amp
Kenwwod C-2 pre
Sony 5 disc cdp (forget model, although I could call my daughter as she still has it)
Teac V800X cassette deck (wish I still had this one)
Technics SL1500? tt with various carts
Bose 901s (forget which series)
A SHortly after that I sold the 901s and purchased a pair of Paradigm 9SE MkIIIs. |
My system in the early 90s
Apogee full range speakers
Mark levinson active cross over
Bi amped with Krell KSA250s
Ariston TT with sumiko Blackbird cartridge
PS Audio CD player
Van den hull silver cabling
Talk about bright ! |
Sonic Frontiers SFT-1
Monarchy DAC
Mission 776/777
Infinity Kappa8's
That combo lasted for years with some biamping. |
Legacy 1 speakers (now called Classics)
Coda Model 20 amplifier
Coda Model 2b preamp
Proceed PCD 2 CD player
Magnum Dynalab FT 101A tuner
Tara Labs Temporal Continuum cables |
Wow- 30 years ago? Nothing, nothing at all. I was in grad school and my gear was packed away in Florida. I used a boom box for tunes. But what was packed away was a Kenwood KD1033 turntable, Shure V15 type 3 cartridge, Pioneer SX-450 Receiver, and Studio Design 46 Speakers (Tech Hifi house brand) . I also had a Teac A150 cassette deck.
When I graduated in 85 I bought a Thorens Turntable (traded towards the Rega), Shure v15 type 5 (traded at the same time) AR speakers (gave to a friend, still has it), Aiwa cassette deck (it's in my basement right now) and an Akai receiver( gave to another friend, still has it). I always figure my Thorens table as my first piece of high end gear. |
And here is 30 years ago!
Luxman M4000 amp
Luxman C12 preamp
Luxman T88 tuner
Denon 60 tt with stock arm and Shure V15 4 cartridge
No cd player was new to the market back in 1983
Dahlquist DQ 10 speakers
Cables ????? |
Fort'e 3 amp
Threshold Fet 2 preamp
Magnum FT 11 tuner
Kenwood 500 tt with MMT arm and Grado MCZ cartridge
Kyocera cd player
Vandersteen 2ce speakers
Audioquest cables |
I had Snell C IV speakers, Classe DR5 pre, DR8 amp, Proceed CD player, Luxman TTable. Still have all that stuff, but it now lives in boxes in a basement closet. |
I was running a Linn Sondek LP12 with an Linn Akito arm and a Linn K9 cartridge as well. PS Audio "phono link" pre. Audio Research LS3 solid state Preamp. ADC Soundshaper 2 graphic equalizer, Nakamichi cassette decks (bx300 and bx125). Had a Rotel am/fm tuner. Theta Digital Basic 2 transport and Theta Digital Pro Gen 5 DAC, Krell mda300 monoblocks running Martin Logan Quest Z's, and a Velodyne F18 sub. Audio Quest Dragon speaker cables (bi-wired) and Audioquest Diamond, Lapis, Ruby, Opal interconnects throughout, (RCA and XLR terminated depending on which components accepted balanced and which did not). I also had a red Zerostat too. Still have it today. Even have my original Disc Washer kit.
I was jamming to electric jazz fusion. Chick Corea Electric Band, Jeff Lorber, Richard Elliot, The Rippingtons, Joe Sample and the Crusaders, Al DeMiola, James Newton Howard w/the guys from Toto. Classic rock too.
Oh how those were the days! Great memories! |
Back in 1993 ...
ADCOM 545 power amp
ADCOM GTP 500 tuner/ preamp
Magnavox 630 CD player
Beogram RX2 turntable
KEF Q60 speakers
Radio Shack Gold series interconnects and speaker cable
None of that original system exists today. I did pick-up a nos Magnavox 630 cd player and am using it in a bedroom system.
Rich |
