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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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zarf
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This is an excellent thread. 

The first hint for me was in the 60s, playing records on the family Magnavox console. Glenn Miller, Pete Fountain, etc. Then with my first earnings as a teenager I bought a Dual turntable and a small Marantz receiver. The first speakers were also Marantz, but were soon traded in for a pair of Epicure 100s. That might be the gateway right there. The Epicures had an interesting tweeter.

Thinking about it, the next fully confirming gateway hardware was the next change of speakers to Infinity Kappa 8, with an EMIT tweeter. I tried stacking the Epicures on top of Advent 6003s, but that didn't work so well. 

My dad sold Advent as one of his lines for a while. I still have a pair of Maestros, as back speakers for an AV system that I am not at all passionate about.

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