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80BJr Starter System
Well, our "little boy" got his CS degree from Georgia Tech this spring, and is taking it out to the west coast, where he'll be a software engineer for Google.
Since he'll barely be able to afford rent there in the Bay area, we decided to give him our B&W 802D speakers, Rega P3-24 TT, MX-136 pre-pro, and a new MC275 that he'll unbox in his new bachelor pad. First two LPs we bought him are Pet Sounds and Led Zeppelin IV - going to California being the theme. I'm leaving it up to him to buy his own speaker cable & interconnects.
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Sources: Vinyl: Clearaudio Innovation Wood turntable with 9" Universal tonearm, Da Vinci V2 cartridge, Stillpoints SS & Stillpoints clamp, McIntosh MVP 901, Apple Mac mini via Benchmark DAC 1, Aurender N100C via Schiit Yggdrasil Control: McIntosh C1100, Mcintosh MX151 Power: Mcintosh MC2301s (front), McIntosh MC501 (center), Mcintosh MC402 (rear) Speakers: Sonus Faber Amati Futura (front and back), SF Vox center Power/connections: PS Audio Power Port receptacles, RGPC 400 pro (2) WireWorld interconnects and speaker cable |
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Congrats on your son graduating from Georgia Tech and getting a great job. Nice system to send him off with. When my daughter graduated and moved to San Diego for her new job, she went by plane and only brought a couple of suitcases.
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Paul Harbeth 40.3 XD, Sound Anchor stands w/ Stillpoints, Luxman M900 & C900, Aurender N20, Jay's Audio CDT3 - MK3 CD player, Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC, Shunyata Everest, Altaira |
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So is this what I missed out on by not having an audiophile parent? When I graduated with my BS in Aerospace Engineering and moved to Cincinnati my parents gave me some plates and some cookware. I guess the grass always looks greener
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- Dan Headphone rig: Gustard X16, Topping A90, Hifiman HE6se, Audeze LCD2 2-Channel setup: Okto Research DAC8 Stereo, Bryston 4Bł, Philharmonic Audio BMR Towers, Dual PSA S152 subs |
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Congrats 80B, you must be one proud papa! Jr. is going to have a rockin’ bachelor pad. Superb starter system, very generous of you.
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Nice! My “audio aware” son graduated Emory several years ago, and is a senior software engineer for IBM, in Atlanta. He received a pair of Monitor Audio speakers, and a nice Yamaha amp with phono. He got a Project turntable for Christmas a year later. He is more into playing bass guitar nowadays. We made him a Bottlehead Tode guitar amp 2 christmas’s ago.
My daughter, who got married a month ago, had a simpler stereo system, again with a turntable. They are very happy with the Sonos system I purchased to play their playlist for the wedding music, that they get to keep. Gotta indoctrinate those kids early!
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How cool is that -when I graduated my dad gave me Sony STR's. Jelous -ha!
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That's a heck of a "starter" system! I'm sure that amp will be with him for quite some time.
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I can relate. After college I had a couple suitcases moving from Ohio to Hong Kong and for music a cheap boombox and a plastic box of 12 cassettes that used to be under the passenger seat of my MGB. Lived in a dump there but had the time of my life at the ripe old age of 23.
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Sources: Vinyl: Clearaudio Innovation Wood turntable with 9" Universal tonearm, Da Vinci V2 cartridge, Stillpoints SS & Stillpoints clamp, McIntosh MVP 901, Apple Mac mini via Benchmark DAC 1, Aurender N100C via Schiit Yggdrasil Control: McIntosh C1100, Mcintosh MX151 Power: Mcintosh MC2301s (front), McIntosh MC501 (center), Mcintosh MC402 (rear) Speakers: Sonus Faber Amati Futura (front and back), SF Vox center Power/connections: PS Audio Power Port receptacles, RGPC 400 pro (2) WireWorld interconnects and speaker cable |
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