love that story @echolane ! The Quad ESL speakers seem to be the most influential component for so many audiophiles.
the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile
@foggyus91 suggested/pushed/encouraged me to start a thread about this. It was related to Darko's post about 12 audiophile misconceptions. One was that we are all about music - vs gear. I think that subject has been chewed up already a 100 times. I am not sure anyone has anything new to say.
However, that made me think about the day I turned into an audiophile.
It was when I bought my first "gateway" product that was affordable but audiophile quality and led me to explore more and tweak and switch and experiment and never be fully content but always be smiling when I turned the power on. It's been about the sound and not the music and that's fine. But I realize now that those Monitor Audio speakers I bought from craigslist were my gateway drug 
Were you always an audiophile or was there such a moment and a piece of hardware that made the difference?
(Lastly, I am very uneasy and on the fence about this forum and starting a thread - for my last correspondence with the moderators. What I learned should bother anyone who cares about fairness or even the appearance of it. I can't discuss it because it will get removed - I tried, my comment lived for less than 5 minutes, )
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@foggyus91 you be you. Don't be cool Prius boy, ever. |
@jsalerno277 I did watch it. I did not know most of their story, especially that 3 of them were married and had a kid BEFORE Led Zeppelin was conceived. They are amazingly modest and sweet and also passionate and talented. Somewhat similar to the Queen story. What is stunning to me is how they (Beatles, Stones, Who, Zeppelin, etc.) were all born during the war and grew up in dire times and under circumstances straight out of a Dickens novel. My childhood was very modest with barely enough food, but still a step up from those conditions.
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yes @lanx0003 but there must have been a moment (in one you were lanx0002, in the next one 0003 - the audiophile) and in that moment something triggered you? |
I should try the Lintons again @lanx0003 I have read so many great things about them. I definitely love the looks but they weren't a good fit with my old amp. |
@orthomead I love it!. The little series of unplanned turn of events that puts us over the fence (from where we can never come back)
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@hbarrel some of the best and purest audiophiles refuse to be called audiophiles :) |
@m-db I thought the first half of the documentary was exciting, I learned a lot, the 2nd half felt lazy, fell flat for me. For the greatest band of their genre there is so much more to tell - about them, the are, the story of the music, etc. |
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