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YOUR AUDIOPHILE JOURNEY WHEN DID IT START AND HOW DID YOU GET TO YOUR DREAM SYSTEM?

I had to create this post so people can share how they got here. I started mines with a record player that my uncle gave me and Alexander O’Neal album. I would get jam boxes back in the day. Then at 30 I got a def tech system at best buy and now I 22 years later I have an all Infigo Audio system with Gato speakers and 2 Rel 212se subs. I’m happy as all get out with my sound. It is my dream system not because of what it costs it is because I’m in love with how it sounds. What’s your story. 

calvinj

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ghdprentice
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@noromance

Subject... not using my vinyl rig.

 

Well, I have not sold my vinyl or analog front end. I am toying with the ideal of upgrading to great cartridge I heard on an Audiogoner’s system, a Esturo Gold cartridge. I am sure with its amazing detail it would get my vinyl to pull ahead just enough to encourage me to play vinyl once in a while.

ghdprentice
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Perhaps as at the age of ~12 in 1964 at night holding my ear up to the old tubed counsel radio in my bedroom with the volume turned down to a whisper so my parents could not hear me in the next room.

Irresponsible purchase of a Marantz 2040 integrated when I got to college in 1972. My first bank loan in 1979 when I first started working for a Pass - Threshold s500 ($5K, $20K in todays dollars).

Continuous pursuit through my home system, headphone system (Traveling first for 10 years as a geologist, then as traveling executive, work system (Headphone), Portable when I lived in hotels.

And finally the two last upgrades, before retirement and after retirement.

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