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Your First System

This should be good!!! Most of us have been in this expensive hobby for years now and have worked our way up to components we only dreamed of. I want to know what was your first system of separate components going back as far as you can remember. My first consisted of a Pioneer SX-680 receiver, a Technics SLD-1 turntable (I think that's the right model #), a Sharp tapedeck, and KLH floorstanding speakers. I was 16 at the time and thought I was the biggest badass on the block. Now, 20+ years later I have a ML 334, Meridian 507 CD, CJ PV10A, Canton Ergo 900 speakers, and a Transparent Power Isolator 4. I'm in the process of upgrading to a ML 390. It goes without saying the IC's and speaker cables are top notch as well. I know my system is WAAAYYYYY down the foodchain compared to what I've seen here but It would be interesting to see what everyone started out with.
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abucktwoeighty
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time machine....
ukesteve
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AR-XA turntable
Dynaco SCA-35 integrated amp
AR 4x speakers
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wynnosu
23 posts
 
Sansui QR500 four channel receiver, Lafayette four channel 8-track deck, Dual 1229 turntable, four Sylvania bookshelf speakers, Lafayette headphones.

After having an 8-track player at home and In the car, it seemed like I was In the big time. I just KNEW quadraphonic was here to stay!
ebm
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Sansui speakers,recviever and AR turntable brought it back from Nam,Dude!!
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closdesducs
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My first system which I bought from a hifi store on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood the first week after enrolling in college consisted of an Onkyo TX-1500 mkii receiver (which I still have and other than a missing power button, works great!) that put out a whopping 17 watts per channel, a pair of Bose 301 speakers (how I envied the Navy ROTC guys who bought their Bose 901's in Japan at great discounts), an Akai tape deck, a Technics SL-Q2 turntable with an Audio Technica MM cartridge (couldn't afford a Shure V-15 Type IV back then), out of the box RCA interconnects and "honking big" (at that time LOL) Monster Cable speaker wires. I used this system up until 2005 when I finally focused my energies on upgrading to my present system. I'd ship that college system back and forth between Hawaii and Southern California and fortunately, never had any issues with the US Postal Service (I must have been born under a lucky star). Good times!
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