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What was your most engaging audio experiance

I have been an audio crazy for 45 years and have had experiences where I thought I heard live music in a room when in fact it was an audio system. This experience which I call "a critical mass" experience suggests that the equipment, the room, the ambiance were all in perfect harmony to create this illusion for me.
I was in fact hearing an Mercury Living Presence solo piano LP played threw biamped Magneplanes 20.1 s powered by ARC Ref 300 monoblocks and at VT100 MKIII.
I will add that I was unaware of an audio system in the adjoining room. A fact which may have contributed to my experiance.
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tpreaves
2,685 posts
 
"Thorens turntable, McIntosh tube pre and amp, and Dalquist DQ-10's." at 19 years old? Must have been a little rich boy. I should be so lucky.
danlib1
819 posts
 
Actually he was working as a roofer and living with his parents- he just knew where to put his money :)
acusound
13 posts
 
Hope this does not bore everyone. I prefer vinyl, but my most engaging experience by far was listening to a Beethoven string quartet sourced from an unmodified Harman Kardon dvd 47 player through a Sherwood 8000 4 tube receiver thru AE1 speakers, and feeling each instrument individually and together was in the room, repeatedly. Second best, a speaker many years ago that I think was called servo static from Infinity.
indianears
20 posts
 
B&W 801 speakers ( the 1st gen without any suffix )

Oracle Turntable

Koetu Red.

1984 I thnk.

Playing Chakka Kahn....

Ummmmmm
tbromgard
814 posts
 
In an audio salon in Chicago, approx 1995. It was a DIY speaker using McCormack electronics playing Stevie Ray Von. It was so clean, clear and convincing. I dont recall the name of the sudio salon or the owner-builder of the DIY speaker, but if I heard the name again, I would know it.
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