Although my stereo interests started way back in my early teens, in earnest things began to solidify in 1975/76. I was attending Penn State U. and was purchasing a new turntable - HarmonKardon ST-7 at Campus Stereo. While in the electronics shop downstairs, I mentioned this to another customer, who was interested in the Sonus Blue Label cartridge that I had purchased and invited me over to his place to hook up my turntable/cartridge into his system and I heard magneplanars for the first time. I have been in the maggie family ever since. I currently have upstairs and downstairs systems. The downstairs system (the big brothers) center around the Magneplanar Tympani IUs, Adcom GF555, Audible illusions Modulus 1a preamp and a Sota Saphire turntable with a Grado cartridge. Like classical and rock music. My upstairs system has migrated now toward DVDs and CDs. This system is centeredd around Magnepan MG 1.5's, and Sony Receiver (easy everyone!) Toshiba DVD/DVD Audio player and Sony Cassett deck. Now I'm into DVD big time! I think they finally have it right with extremely high quality Audio and video that has a reasonable and preferably direct relationship. And the Magnepan MG 1.5s have blown me away with their realistic reconstruction of the natural timbre of anything that makes a sound. That should be a good intro into my current state of affairs.
