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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 learned about the sound quality with my friend when i was 20. My friend was older and a bit more experienced. His own very old friend whom he presented to me was a genuine "audiophile"  with many room dedicated to his hobby but curiously with no acoustics basic, only electronics, different design, a suspended turntable and other eccentricities as it appeared to me...

 

 He advised me to buy Tannoy dual gold ...

I did...  My journey begun but stay there without change nor progress because  i cannot buy anything 30 years later anyway. My wife cleaned my Beyerdynamic headphone after 9/11 event and i decided to go studying headphones... But i disliked all the 10 headphones i bought....

  Then if i wanted a good S.Q. i understood and realized a decade ago that i must do it myself  at no cost(acoustics experiments with low cost speakers) because i could not upgrade anything...

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