What made you love the SOUND of music, good Hifi.

[StuntmanMike]

I have met many people who love music but couldn't give a toss about sound quality, including musicians, perhaps that's a bit strong but I'm sure you know what I mean.

What inspired you to spent loads of money on quirky British ( mostly ) kit, what drives you to use vinyl instead of a hard drive.

What I really want to know is, was there a system that blew you away, made you looks at normal stereos and think no thanks.

Mine was my Dad's 70s set up,
Armstrong 626 Receiver,
Thorens TD 166 mk11 Turntable.
Celestion Ditton 44 Speakers.

Listening to my Dad's Beatles albums as a kid was something else.

Over to you.

[StuntmanMike]

DavidJG said:

Listening to a Meridian system one of my mates had a few years ago now (DSP 5500s) made me realise how bad my old 90s system was. Then I started visiting shops and auditioning kit. One set of Martin Logans and some Meridian source/ amplification duly purchased. It's still utterly brilliant to listen to - haven't found anything better yet. One small problem though - Mrs DJG thinks it's all too big and needs to be down sized!!

My wife is exactly the same, what is it about women and stereos.

[StuntmanMike]

As someone who has played the drums for 30 years, it is criminal not to listen to Stuart Copeland on anything less.

[StuntmanMike]

Some great posts, some truly great kit on here as well .

[StuntmanMike]

Off to see 'computer world' on YouTube because I can't remember it.
My brother was also first buying a separates system, I can't really remember it but the amp was a Nad 3130.
I remember he blew his student grant on it.

Sadly

[StuntmanMike]

Planet Blatark-9 said:

StuntmanMike said:

I have met many people who love music but couldn't give a toss about sound quality, including musicians, perhaps that's a bit strong but I'm sure you know what I mean.

What inspired you to spent loads of money on quirky British ( mostly ) kit, what drives you to use vinyl instead of a hard drive.

What I really want to know is, was there a system that blew you away, made you looks at normal stereos and think no thanks.

Mine was my Dad's 70s set up,
Armstrong 626 Receiver,
Thorens TD 166 mk11 Turntable.
Celestion Ditton 44 Speakers.

Listening to my Dad's Beatles albums as a kid was something else.

Over to you.

How weird.... my Dad has had those speakers for decades, he still has them, i grew up with them... and I have always loved them!!

They were certainly a bench mark... - going on from that, it was a couple of state of the art setups in cars at cruises which also spurred me on.... and also an amazing demo in Rayleigh hi-fi of some M&K stuff.... always loved music

What did he have them with? I remember how big those baby's were.