Going from a Wallmart type music centre to a separates system built around a Rega 3.
The magnitude of improvement I experienced back then has never been approached by anything since.
It was like focussing a pair of binoculars. Dylan and the band playing Tangled Up in Blue became an unforgettable experience.
However the question of whether it was a more enjoyable and more fun experience is not one I can fully answer even nearly 40 years later.
I remember Stephen Fry mentioning a similar experience after he’d upgraded to an expensive Arcam system.
It was great, it was clear, but it just wasn’t the same as his old beat-up record player he had used at sixth form.
Now getting that ’original buzz’ seems to be an entirely different challenge.
The magnitude of improvement I experienced back then has never been approached by anything since.
It was like focussing a pair of binoculars. Dylan and the band playing Tangled Up in Blue became an unforgettable experience.
However the question of whether it was a more enjoyable and more fun experience is not one I can fully answer even nearly 40 years later.
I remember Stephen Fry mentioning a similar experience after he’d upgraded to an expensive Arcam system.
It was great, it was clear, but it just wasn’t the same as his old beat-up record player he had used at sixth form.
Now getting that ’original buzz’ seems to be an entirely different challenge.