What was in your first "real" higher end audio system?
I got a paper route in the late 60’s bought my first system Garrard turntable Shure cartridge Lafayette amp Criterion 25 loudspeakers-upgraded from these to Dynaco A25 Upgraded big time- AR amp AR turntable AR 3a loudpseakers Still have the AR amp tucked away-works like a charm can not imagine the amount of hours on it. |
My evolution into 'higher' end audio finally arrived when I bought an ARC SP10II, an Oracle TT with a Benz Glider, an Accuphase T100 tuner, a Threshold SA 3 amp, and Thiel 3.5 speakers. Lots of stuff of various quality came an went before but this was really my first good 'system'. I've moved on, but this system lasted over 20 years. |
My first audio system of high end quality is the present one and my last one ...Not because it is the better electronic components I ever owned but because all is rightly embed... I will not name my components for now because never mind the components, most audio systems rightly embedded in the mechanical, electrical, and acoustical dimensions are Top of the world and mine is.... Any system that is not rightly embed is only good at most even a million dollars one... :) I apologize for being provocative..... My best to all.... |
Hi, first system was a Philips portable record player back in the late 60's followed mid 70's by TRIO amp, Wharfedale Lintons and Lenco turnatble with Shure cartridge. What opened my mind and apetite for better was a Cyrus 2/PSX with TDL Studio 2 in the 80's and a Mission 775LCT tt with Nagaoka MP11 boron. |
1979, Christmas.....I wouldn't call it higher end, but it was the first time I fell in love with home music...I was a teenage kid. MCS 3275 Integrated with a pioneer turntable, Sanyo Tape Deck and some Altec speakers a (can not remember the ones....later purchased a pair of stand mount Boston Acoustics). Grabbed some vinyl (Boston, Ohio Players, The Who) and was off to the races. Remember my mother always telling me to turn it down. |
My first high end system? Its a continuum with no real obvious beginning. My first real high end component however, the one that opened my ears more than any other, was the McCormack DNA1. By the time it became my first system the McCormack had been replaced with an Aronov integrated. It was a close call. Sound quality wise the Aronov was only slightly better. With the right preamp, IC, PC and Cones the McCormack probably would have been better. But the Aronov was better without any of that. So there you go. The original (in hindsight, awful) JBL L7s were replaced with Linaeum Model 10. The Audioquest Dragon with Synergistic Research Resolution Reference. And the Cal Audio CDP with a Basis/Graham/Glider. That was my first real high end system- Basis/Graham/Glider, ARC PH3SE, Aronov integrated, Linaeum Model 10, Synergistic Research, Bybee conditioner. I don't have any pics of the first one, but this is what that first system looked like in the same room. Only in the beginning there was no rack, no amp stand, and it was a Basis turntable just sitting on the floor to the side of the Aronov. That's a TV under the blanket. That was my home theater. https://www.theanalogdept.com/c_miller.htm The McCormack was never really in my first system. Yet it was the one thing that really got me realizing what could be. It was that good. So maybe it was in a way a part of my first system after all. I don't know. You make the call. |
