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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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I loved music and had an average receiver/turntable/speaker rig. Nothing special. I was only making @$1.25 hr so...

I did enjoy recording FM music on my Sony 7" Reel to reel but playback and finding tracks was a pain. So, I started buying used lp's. What bothered me about them was the surface noise. I was reading my copy of Audio magazine when I saw an ad for the SAE 5000 Impulse Noise Reduction unit. Supposed to remove clicks and pops from playback. As luck would have it the audio store in town was an SAE dealer. I won't get into how it worked or didn't but it was good enough for me to cough up the $ to buy it. It started me down the path. I have no regrets except for wishing I kept some of my "stuff". 

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