I love this thread. My first aha moment was in 1983 when I bought Celestion Ditton speakers. Loved them. Listened to mostly rock, new wave, alternative. I wish I still had them
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 dabbled in mid fi stuff in the 1980’s. In the early 1990’s a local dealer , whom worked out of a Music store where I bought CD’s sat me down and I listened to a pair of Unity Audio Fountainhead signatures. He played a cut from Paula Abdul. I was mesmerized. I couldn’t get how that voice sounded. I ended up buying those speakers and a Musical Design amp and preamp to drive them. |
FYI ‘Beginning Led Zeppelin’ is currently available for viewing. Billed as formally The Yardbirds I found their, take it or leave it trajectory into the music industry smartly interesting. John Paul Jones, “I loved John Bonham’s right foot so much I’d just lay out.” I’m waiting in that line under the Fillmore marquee.
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@m-db I thought the first half of the documentary was exciting, I learned a lot, the 2nd half felt lazy, fell flat for me. For the greatest band of their genre there is so much more to tell - about them, the are, the story of the music, etc. |
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