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It was 20 years ago today. . What was your system?

I've ha a stereo in one way or another since the 70's.

Right now I am listening to an Art Pepper LP I've had more than 20 years so I got thinking, what was my system like 20 years ago.

Here's the snapshot-

Magnepan MG2.6R speakers
Bryston .5b preamp
Bryston 4b amp.
Rega Planar 3 with Linn K9 cartridge
CAL Icon CDP
Onkyo T9090mkII tuner.

I think I had Naim speaker cable and Audioquest IC's.

The only thing I still have from back in the day is my Zerostat (red) and Shure balance beam tracking force guage.

What were you listening through in 1993?
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siliab
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•Pink Triangle Turntable-Syrinx PU-2 Tonearm-Carnegie Model 1 Cartridge
•Nakamichi 600 Mk.II Cassette Deck
•Spectral DMC10-Delta Preamplifier
•Spectral DMA80 Power Amplifier
•Martin-Logan CLSII Loudspeakers-Audio Pro Ace Bass B5-50 Subwoofer
•MIT-Cardas-Audioquest-Monster Cable Interconnects and Speaker Cable

System has undergone multiple rounds of turnover of nearly every component since, with the exception of the Nak.
joekapahulu
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Didn't have much discretionary income and had lots of school and mortgage debt so same system as in the 80s and late 70s pre grad school. SAE preamp/EQ and power amp,Ohm C2 and Rogers LS3/5, Dual belt TT. Sole step up was a Sony CD bought by my wife for a birthday. Still have some of that stuff in a closet but system is improved today. Only got back into audio 6 years ago and went crazy buying a bunch of "new" used stuff...now trying to better match pieces to each other.
tmcclintock
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Was an expat living in Rep of Ireland in the early 90s and had my 115v, 60Hz system in storage.

In Ireland
Roksan CD player
NAD tuner
Classe 6 preamp
Classe 200 amp
Sonus Faber Electa Amators
Siltec ICs, Transparent speaker cables

Stored in US
Rotel CD player
AR the Turntable, Signet cartridge
NAD tuner
Acoustat PNP preamp
Acoustat TNT 200 amp
Acoustat 2+2s
Audioquest/Monster cables
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brunkhorstk
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20 years ago I still ran Apogee Caliper speakers. They're gone.
I still have the CAL Delta/Sigma. Still works.
The cj has been upgraded to another cj.
I sold the Sumo Andromeda II in Audiogon a few years ago. I hope the guy who bought it is still using it.
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mantis007
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IIRC I had Acoustat 1+1 driven by a GAS Ampzilla II with a full Gasworks reference mod, a Mission DAD7000 CD with a reference mod by a mid west company that I forget, a Audio Alchemy DLC pre. and an Audio Pro B2-50 sub. Speaker cables were Tara Labs Space & Time with TFA return and the IC were Monster M1000. I miss that system and can't believe I remembered all this LOL. Oh, the signal from the Mission went to a Magnapan X01 box that cut the lows at about 100hz using Wondercaps and which I modded with better RCA jacks an silver wire.
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