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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, )

 

gano
renosteve
30 posts
 

In 1978 working as a carpenters helper I sold my soul for Klipsch LaScala, Mac 2500 and Mac preamp, wish I still owned that system.

triton20trx
29 posts
 

When I first heard Balanced Audio Technology equipment in a listening room at Glenn Poor’s Audio in Champaign Il.  Next was when I bought Nola speakers.  I was hooked.

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jallan
343 posts
 

Building a GAS Ampzilla in 1975. I was 18…

mattw73
121 posts
 

I think I was just born into it because of my parents. We always had big speakers, big tube amps when I was young. My parents partied every weekend..they both played guitar & most their friends played too. As a young kid in the 70's I did kinda gravitate to the multiple reel to reels we had. I certainly didn't understand equipment then so I was more just drawn into the loud music. My mom was a housewife & it was loud music all day everyday for a good part of my childhood. 

This just carried over into the rest of my life. By the 90's though I was starting to realize that there are levels to this sound quality thing. 

budjoe
33 posts
 

I have been into music listening since an early age starting with a transistor radio in grade school.

My first real audio component journey began in 1980. I don’t remember whether the  speakers or amp and preamp came first. I’ll start with the amp and preamp. Luxman c-120 preamp, and m-120a amp. Then DCM Time Window speakers. All of those were with me until 2015 or so. Added a Mitsubishi LT-5 turntable a year later. Don’t remember the cartridge - I think an ADC MM. Unfortunately that turntable was stolen around 1987. Replaced with a Thorens 160 MkII. The Luxman m-120a is still with me and has ben refreshed recently. The DCM Time Windows are now with my son. They just didn’t work well in my present apartment in spite of working well in 6 other environments of various sizes and shapes.

There is something about that Luxman M-120a amp that is just hard to replace. It can compete with most modern amps very well. I am surprised at what it can do to the sound even with cheap speakers. I guess it just hits the spots of what I expect in music presentation. 

 

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