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Old 09-14-2012, 08:29 AM
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Great stuff... thanks for the photos!
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Old 09-14-2012, 08:55 AM
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My first purchase from a real "hi-fi" shop in 1974:

Kenwood KR-7400


Large Advent loudspeakers (4)


Harmon Kardon Rabco ST-7


Kenwood KX-910 cassette deck




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I had owned a "stereo set" for several years - an RCA "all in one" set with a remote speaker and it sounded good enough for my college dorm room but . . .

My first "good" speakers were Electrovoice EV-2 - two-way speakers, bought in 1963, and used for several years The speakers were rated for 35 watts and peak input of 60 watts. (Whatever that means?)

I used these speakers with a Fisher X-101-B integrated amp and a Garrard type A turntable - (record changer) with a Shure cartridge

I probably cut the plugs off of a pair of lamp extension cords to get a "really good" set of speaker wires. We had never heard of dedicated speaker wire in those days, and I can't imagine the poor quality of whatever interconnects I used.


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I have a record player and a cd player and some other stuff that sounds pretty good.


MAIN SYSTEM: . . . Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, [B]Koetsu Rosewood or Grado Statement 1 Cartridges, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric K03 CD/SACD Player, Lexicon RT-20 Universal Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System, OPPO and Cambridge Streaming Devices.


DOWNSTAIRS SYSTEM: . . . Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amp, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-105 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV, or Clearaudio Discovery Cartridges, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs .

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I had owned a "stereo set" for several years - an RCA "all in one" set with a remote speaker and it sounded good enough for my college dorm room but . . .

My first "good" speakers were Electrovoice EV-2 - two-way speakers, bought in 1963, and used for several years The speakers were rated for 35 watts and peak input of 60 watts. (Whatever that means?)

I used these speakers with a Fisher X-101-B integrated amp and a Garrard type A turntable - (record changer) with a Shure cartridge

I probably cut the plugs off of a pair of lamp extension cords to get a "really good" set of speaker wires. We had never heard of dedicated speaker wire in those days, and I can't imagine the poor quality of whatever interconnects I used.


My First Speaker Wire:







Julian,

Awesome! The photos are great to see.... really takes me back in time.
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Old 09-14-2012, 09:28 AM
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Sony TAE-1000 ESD preamp.
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A McIntosh C24 pre-amp around 1970 or so. I built a Dynaco 120 amp to power my Bose 901's. I then later upgraded to a Phase Linear 400.
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My first high end components were Dual 1019 turntable, Pickering XV15/750 cartridge, KLH 5 speakers, Tandberg 64X tape deck and a Lafayette 1200T receiver in 1967, I was 13.

I basically ran out of money where the receiver was concerned. My childhood lawn mowing business didn't quite make it to the Marantz 7C and McIntosh MC275 that I was drooling over at the time!

When I was 10 or 11 (I started very young), I needed a better record player than the old mono player I used to play the drums with, and my father would NOT let me get a $200 "portable stereo". I sarcastically asked if I could get components like he had, and he said YES! I saved for a few years, and that's what I got. Thanks dad!
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Old 09-14-2012, 11:08 AM
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I started my audio journey in 2007, when my dad gave me his trusty old luxman integrated amplifier & some Klipsch KG4's I was 13 years old at the time. I was sucked into this hobby from then on.
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