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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 started in my teen years. Being middle class folks, my first taste of good audio was a hand built HH SCOTT tube amp, then a Dynakit.ST-xx(i forgot and all this are surplus gear). This was all driven because my college degree was EE and Amp projects is where my interest was.

some of my family friends owned Pioneers, Sansui and Marantz. they all sounded so good, that my homebuilt HH Scott was no match. 

Since i have very limited budgets, i modified the HH SCOTT changing caps, re-bias and even doing my own transformers. finally i got it to sound as good as the modern Marantz..

Growing older and in my working life, i settled with DECWARE gear (amps and Pre) with LOWTER Acousta for the longest time.. and now, all these are gone and i have settled for Pass Labs, Falcon and ATC / REL

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