My late older brother, back in the ‘80’s, bought ESS Heil AMT-1’s and Sansui AU-717 & TU-717…One listen to Steely Dan on his system and I was mesmerized. Over the years I bought components I could afford but always wanted more. After many years of compromises, work, different priorities, $ demands…I now finally have the time and $ to realized a long lost dream.
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 
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 cited my Infinity RSIIbs, but I must go much further back than that. In the mid-1950s, my Dad owned a TV shop, and he also sold record players. I saved my money from paper routes and working in the TV shop and purchased a Zenith “portable” record player with AM/FM radio. It had two front firing 5.25” speakers that provided stereo … but not much channel separation for the ears. My first two LP records were Tommy Dorsey with Frank Dinatra album and a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, by George Szell and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. I was hooked then at the age of about 12 or 13. |
@gano ”Led Zeppelin II always sounds amazing” Agreed. Off topic, and I assume you have, but if not … did you watch “Becoming Led Zeppelin”? Real good documentary with excellent concert footage and sound quality. I never researched their beginnings so it was new to me. I never knew Jimmy Page was so involved with the production and engineering of the first two albums. The amazing engineer effects on ll were his planned artistic vision. |
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