What did your system look like 30 years ago?

Phase Linear 400 amp
Phase Linear 2000 preamp
Epicure Omin Directional speakers
Revox A77 Reel to Reel Swiss model
Empire TT 698
I was in the Army in the 70s and GIs were able to purchase gear for 1/4 of the price. It was crazy! It was a lot of fun! Not the Army part! If I remember correctly the A77 was under 500.00! Brand spanking new. I was 19 years old and buying all this high end gear! In the mid to late seventies this was top shelf gear.

NAD 3240 integrated
DCM Timeframe 400
Magnavox CDB650 cdp
Monster Cable ICs & speaker cables

ARC and Magnapan MG 3s with SOTA Cosmos TT.

My first high end system

Audio Research sp8
cary slim 70 monoblocks
denon 3560 cd modified by Stan warren
audioquest diamond ic
Homemade speakers from north creek music with 10g music coils I believed they were called

Tandberg TR2080 receiver, Tandberg (?) cassette deck, B&O 4002 turntable, Canton LE900 speakers.

I had just sold off my turntable.  I had got my first floorstanding speakers , some Polk Audio things that were about a 3 meters high and a foot wide, a 14 bit Sony CDP, a Carver Pre Amp Tuner, and an SAE two channel power amp

JVC boombox with detachable speakers, dual cassette, high-speed dubbing, and equalizer. Totally badass for a teenager.

NAD , integrated amp.  Polk monitors, Denon CD player, generic RCAs and speaker cables

CJ PV5 pre
Threshold 50w amp
SOTA TT
Kef 104.2’s
Monster cable

Pink Trangle Export, GTI status in 1992
Alphason HR100S, ATOC9, ARC SP9MKII, DENON POA6600 monoblocks, TDL Studio 2, AKAI GFX91. Straightwire Maestro cabling. No fancy powerstrips or dedicated lines or special power cables. Just a Sound organisation rack for turntable and pre. Loved that system. 1993 mistakes took place.
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Ahh yea MC how did I forget to list those?
Resonators....good description! We resonated quite a bit in those days.  Hifi pioneers ...  over the next hill we’d be home. 

Love the four Grolsch-Helmholtz resonators on the equalizer. Even mahgister doesn’t have those. Awesome. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNnyj-XQxvcJEyjPglBEWV4HhYqhAfgcdTslgBbXmh639xHA7W3r2EEy9kWEXmU...

@mapman

why is youth wasted on the young?

@robelvick

have you upgraded? classic gear can sound pretty decent! 😊

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30 years ago I had one of those spinning things that hung over my crib.  It played nursey rhymes.  Sound quality was mediocre at best, but I enjoyed it.  Helped me sleep.

Goldmund Studio turntable with T3 tonearm (T3F I think)
Denon DL-103 cartridge
Audio Research SP-11 Preamp
Spectral CD Player (I think the SDR-1000 SL)
Cello Audio Palette
Krell MDA-300 monoblocks
Duntech Sovereign speakers

@berner99 
@newbee 

i remember my mirage m3si's!  lovely speaker unique big sound solid bass... 

and esl63's... still have em... two pair actually... forever speakers...(they have just been joined by many others LOL)

Like this in 1980 college dorm room


https://photos.app.goo.gl/SyU2JPgjWauRpBC46

~4th revision to my first “good” system.

Hitachi sr-804 Class G receiver
philips 312 table probably an Ortofon cart of some sort back then. Maybe Audio Technica or Goldring.
Aiwa ad6550 cassette
Audio Control EQ
dbx 118
Discwasher and Zerostat
I think those speakers are my Ohm Ls that I refurbed a few years back and still use but could be my roommates larger Ohm C2s...not sure.

This is exactly what it looked like 16 years ago in 2004 https://www.theanalogdept.com/c_miller.htm
30 years ago would be 1991. That was the year I bought my current home, but at the end of the year. In January I was living in a 800 sq ft 2BR condo. The "living room" was more like a rectangular "living space" with kitchen at one end, then dinner table, and "living room" with a sliding glass door at the end opposite the kitchen. 

The system was your typical rack thing with my trusty 1974 Kenwood KA-8004 integrated amp driving 1974 JBL L25 Jubal. Yellow and orange, in case you were wondering. There was a JVC HiFi VCR, lamp cord, patch cords, and the one SOTA feature was the hard wired power cords. 

That's a joke, son.  

There was also a Technics SL-1700 DD turntable, but in this living situation that was stored away in a box. My listening was all MTV TV and HiFi VCR. Had CDs but no CD player. What I did was lug my VCR to a friend, dub CDs to tape, listen to tape.  

Now if you had asked about 20 years ago, how I wish there were pics of that! Imagine the current listening room above, only no paint, no sheetrock even, just house wrap, with an old recycled plank of wood across cinder blocks. My first upgrade from the Kenwood, McCormack DNA1, went on that plank. Oh how I wish I had pictures of that!

Rowland consonance preamp
kinergetics KBA 75 amp
mirage m3 speakers
some $500 CD player TAS liked 
 

Acoustat Model 4s.
ARC Classic 60
ARC SP-14
Classic Well-Tempered TT. 
Tandberg 310 Cassette deck. 
Scott tuner

Quad USA 63's
ARC SP10 MkII
Threshold SA3
Oracle TT
Benz Glider
Accuphase T100 Tuner

Acoustat Model 6 (their statement speaker, basically 2 pairs of stacked 3 + 3’s.)
VPI Junior with Grado TMZ
ARC SP6 C-1/CJ PV7
2 Moscode 300 Amps

circa 1990 - was living in downtown san francisco in our first real house

iirc...

ariston rd11-s tt w/ infinity black widow arm & signet oc9
sony cdp 707 es
conrad johnson pv12
roger mojedski musical reference rm9-ii amp
aragon 4004 mk2
magneplanar mgiii-a’s or proac response 3’s