Your experience in "in their day" brands/components that you remember foundly?

I love music and have enjoyed "high-end" audio for several decades.

With this being said, I am interested in hearing what may be your

"golden oldies" that you have owned? For me there are many that

were part of my beginnig. The original large Advents and a Yamaha

CA-1000 started my "better gear" travels...that lead to Dahlquists, Magnepans,

and seperated from Audio Research, Conrad Johnson, early Classe and

many others. What were your "roots" that helped your journey?

jusam07-11-2022 2:27am

pdspecl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 254 posts 07-12-2022 at 01:05am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 30 years back I made one last purchase as a single man before marriage. Counterpoint sa-2000 & sa-220. Nad 5000, Mirage M5si. Compared to my prior Nad receiver and home made speakers using radio shack drivers and crossover I felt like I went to audio heaven.
pdspecl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 254 posts 10-02-2022 at 11:02pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete My first leap into audio started at 13 - was a GE am/fm 8 track. I then built some 3 way speakers using radio shack components. Obviously low fi at best. At 19 or so I bought a NAD 7155 receiver and a Sony CD player. By mid 20s I moved onto Aragon & Mirages M5si. I then swapped the Aragon for Counterpoint gear. That was a notable improvement over 12 years or so. My tastes in music also evolved along with my ‘critical’ listening skills and overall knowledge of equipment, tubes. It’s a journey over many decades. However, my first 10, 12 years were the most exciting to be honest.