The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards


I did have some others before, but the first system that hooked me on this passion/hobby and would still be pretty good today was:

Stacked Large Walnut Advents, with the top ones upside down so the tweeters were close together,
Yamaha CA-1000 integrated (usually run in the class A mode)
Yamaha top end direct drive turntable (YP-800?) with ADC XLM II cartridge 
Yamaha CT-7000 tuner
Early Monster interconnects and speaker cables 
Advent cassette deck
Teac reel to reel with 10" reels (model ?)

The first thing(s) that were replaced was the Large Advents that gave way to a pair of 
Dahlquist DQ-10.

From that system I have gone on to several others that I have enjoyed, but I do remember that first one.







jusam
In the early 1970’s, my system was:

Crown DC 300 amp
Crown IC 150 preamp
Empire turntable
Shure V-15 cartridge
JBL Olympus speakers
Pioneer headphones

The system sounded very good at the time.
Mine was 1978. Sansui G-8700DB DC Power Receiver, Technics 1200 TT, Teac Cassette Tape Model ??, Sansui SA-7 Equalizer, Bose 601 Series I Speakers. Bought overseas in the Navy. Nice sounding system. 
My first system was a College graduation present from my parents in the mid 60s. It wasn't state of the art even then but it was at least A-/A.

Dynaco PAS 2 preamp
Dynaco Stereo 70 amp
Acoustic Research AR2a speakers
Acoustic Research XA turntable
ADC Point 4E cartridge
14 gauge lamp cord speaker wire(this was pre wire days and normal speaker wire was 16 gauge lamp cord)
1980
Snell c2 mark 2, Adcom GFA 555, GCD 500 and the adcom preamp tuner. That setup lasted me into 2019. Good enough for my ears and wallet equilibrium. 
1974; Acoustic Research integrated, ESS AMT4s, Teac 4010s and Phillips 212 TT.