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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  devil

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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Kenwood would be the name for me.  In 1984 I graduated a Navy school in Idaho Falls ID.  A  $2000 bonus was mine for the extra work.  On to the Fleet, finally.  I knew my CJ7 would be my only personal refuge so I promptly drove to the one car audio place in town.

I dropped every cent on my new system!  Everything was the best Kenwood had to offer.  Dolby C auto reverse tape deck. 3 way adjustable crossover in the console with the tape deck.  I had a box already built across the rear.  A perfect place to put a 8" woofer behind each front seat, driven by a 270 wpc amp.  2 5" midranges gut level in the dash driven by a 140 wpc.  The 2 1" tweeters were mounted at the roof line, forehead level with a 70 wpc.

SO FUN to find out you need a new alternator!  Talk about enveloped in sound.  The signature piece to hear was Frankenstein...The Jeep just bounced and when the ufo lands or whatever the ch ch ch ch noise was it just drilled into my head.

However, now and forever I LOVE my DCM Time Frame 2000s!  Just So Good...  Maybe with todays big tvs they could have sold more

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