Incoming! The New Equipment Thread
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Mather
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You sandbagger you have us all beat.
ngower
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In hindsight I was super spoiled. There was Fidelis AV and AV Therapy (two very big hi-fi retailers in the Northeastern US) that I could walk to if I wanted to. The downside was I had to live in Nashua, NH.
Mather
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There's a store called Bay Bloor Radio in downtown Toronto and it's like THE hifi store for the downtown core. When I was a kid I used to hear the radio ads all the time and I remember going there with my dad and it was just the coolest place to me. I couldn't wait till I could actually afford something ANYTHING in there when I got older. The first thing I did when I moved out of my house was purchase their "Mozart System" which was the base model Yamaha 2 channel amp, a 5 CD Yamaha changer and a pair of Mission 702e speakers. It was basically the least expensive full system they sold. I had that exact setup for about a decade. But I remember the feeling of going in there that day and knowing I was finally going to walk out with something. It was the best.
STILL CHASING THAT DRAGON BABY
STILL CHASING THAT DRAGON BABY
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ZiggsMBK
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This is true whole home audio. Get lost Sonos! And hell yeah to the systems for your kids. No one is going to develop a real appreciation for the artistry of music listening to compressed shite through earpods and Bluetooth speakers. It ends up background noise that way.
My wife is picky about her audio. Her folks taught English in Japan in the '60s, so she spent her entire youth listening to the component Yamaha stereo they brought back. If her music doesn't measure up, she gets...cranky.
Nice! I don't think we switched over to vinyl until maybe ten years ago. 15 though? We would have just taken up residence in the GTA, so it was the Klipsch RF-62 home theatre set, the NAD T747, and a Pioneer Elite upscaling DVD player for video and CD duties.
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Slimwhit33
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House to myself for the first time in a while. Those Luxman needles are jumping! Awesome. 
Nee Lewman
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15 years ago, I was running that sony mini shelf system that I used to run the orbit through. I didn’t have a turntable then.
displayname
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I'm late to the party, but this is a great looking system.
displayname
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I'm jumping in on this 15 years ago game!
Sony 5 disc CD changer (still have it, was a prized possession)
Sony stereo receiver (sold to a friend that still has it)
Pioneer bookshelf speakers
I actually purchased that system back in highschool, probably around 2002-3 and it stayed with me all the way until probably 2017. I honestly kept that system longer than most things I've kept in my life. Coincidentally, about 15 years!
Sony 5 disc CD changer (still have it, was a prized possession)
Sony stereo receiver (sold to a friend that still has it)
Pioneer bookshelf speakers
I actually purchased that system back in highschool, probably around 2002-3 and it stayed with me all the way until probably 2017. I honestly kept that system longer than most things I've kept in my life. Coincidentally, about 15 years!
Thackeraye
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15 years ago, I was rocking a Trio (Kenwood rebranded) two thirds sized amp, along with the matching speakers. Both of them were from my dad's system in the late 80's. I was playing CD's through a Pioneer DVD player, with no vinyl. Been a huge jump since then!
OMC
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Now are you using Tannoy as vernacular for speaker or actual Tannoys? I’m guessing the real deal.
Mather
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Addendum to my initial 15 year post. My first pair of speakers (purchased 25 years ago along with that starter system) were Mission 702e, and those were upgraded a couple years later to Energy C2s. I gave those C2s to a friend a few years ago and they're still being used daily in his system today, and they sound awesome. I gave away every part of my initial system to friends and family and most of it is still operating today. I love seeing and hearing that those pieces are still running and providing musical joy. It feels good.
mindhead1
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15 years ago I had 3 kids running around the house. I had gotten rid of my Sony amp and 5 CD changer (mistake) and Polk book shelfs that got me through college and was going all in on streaming. Squeezebox FTW!
I had a Sonos amp and a pair of mid range Polk Towers. Rarely got to listen to that setup and was mostly relegated to headphone listening in a corner of the living room. Sennheiser 6XX, Grado SR80s through an Audio Engine DAC/amp and then an Aune X1S/X7S stack and a DarkVoice tube amp after that.
Wasn’t until a move and Covid that I got back to a proper 2 channel setup with a dedicated listening space.
I had a Sonos amp and a pair of mid range Polk Towers. Rarely got to listen to that setup and was mostly relegated to headphone listening in a corner of the living room. Sennheiser 6XX, Grado SR80s through an Audio Engine DAC/amp and then an Aune X1S/X7S stack and a DarkVoice tube amp after that.
Wasn’t until a move and Covid that I got back to a proper 2 channel setup with a dedicated listening space.