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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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This was an amazing and unexpected experience....

I already had my college dream system.  Marantz 2285 amp/preamp.  Heathkit equalizer and graphic processor that I built, monster cables, Sony linear tracking table, and JBL L65 speakers. 

I bought a Conrad Johnson PV 10A preamp off of Audiogon.  It wasn't very big or impressive looking, but it used vacuum tubes....

Luckily, my Marantz allowed me to plug in the PV 10A into it and thus bypass the internal preamp within it.

OMG.  Night and day difference in the quality of the sound coming out of those wonderful L65 speakers!  I was blown away!  Then my quest began to upgrade my entire system to what I call 'entry level high end'.  I'm very pleased with the outcome, although it took many years to configure and it did cost a lot of money!

I eventually sold that PV 10A to another Audiogon member....

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