what made you get into high end gear.


im pretty sure most if not all of us here have been music lovers & system owners off & on our entire lives so the love of good music isnt really what im lookin for.

what really got me thinking about this was i was lookin at the virtual systems a while back when i read where another member gave a reason why he got into high end gear & it floored me,i swear what this guy wrote coulda been a page from my life.

i guess what im askin is was there a special moment or a certian peice of gear that caused you to take the leap from store bought systems into the world of high end gear.

i'll wait to post my reasons as i dont want to make the thread take a certian course.

mike.
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I had sold a pair of big JBL 4343 Speakers to a high end dealer in VA. back in the early 80's.He listened to them first in my apartment with my modest Marantz 4400 Receiver
driving them and stated our Magnaplaners image better then these big boys ,come by at our stereo shop and have a little listen.
When I walked into the main show room they were playing Contus Domious LP on a Linn Table with big Maggies, an ARC Tube Preamp,with an ARC AMP.I can't remember the model number too many years ago,BUT that sound absolutely blew my mind.For the first time I heard this huge wrap around sound stage,and this quality of sound reproduction I thought you could only hear at a live symphony concert.I was permanently hooked from that day forward.I was an advent subscriber at that time to the Audiomart with Walt and Lennice.Walt helped me get my first high end speaker Acoustat Model 4's.I then purchased an ARC SP6B,and used a Hafler DH200 Amp which was shortly after modified with Wonder Caps and bigger power supply.I've gone thru much gear since then,and still enjoy this hobby greatly.