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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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My foray into the deep, dark & at times, very pricey audiophile road had two different origins. The first was when I went to a store in 1974 to audition Large Advents which were quite nice but then listened to a relatively new brand, ADS & their model 810’s powered by an Ampzilla amp. Wow! I bought the Advents fir to budgetary constraints & then added a second pair I got used which made a big difference but I knew someday I wanted a true audiophile speakers. This desire lead to Snell A II’s in ‘82, then  Proac EBS’s & finally Ariel 10 T’s for regular cone / dome speakers. 
 

The second path began when I did pro sound systems for live shows  & multi media presentations in Miami working for my Dad’s audio visual company. I learned about high sensitivity horns from Altec, JBL & EV powered by crown DC300 A amps. This lead to eventually, years later to desiring the dynamics & live sound that horns excel at but without their common colorations. In 2004, I heard Avantgarde Duo’s & was hooked! After a number of years & house  changes, I wound up w/ Volti Audio  Rivals & still really enjoy their live, dynamic sound. 

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