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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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gunbei
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Yeah, you're right Dan, that's her. Christy never told me she was into high end audio, heheh. She was was really young in this photo.
pbb
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I don't think I am into high-end gear: every time I upgrade something someone on these boards tells me how good that piece of equipment is but that compared to brand X it is small beer.

I pride myself in being and remaining mid-fi.
hpims
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The sound of a KLH Model Eight receiver system.....started it all. (I got turned on to the sound of tubes)

Now I have a McIntosh MC275 amp, C22 pre-amp, MR71 tuner, Rega Planet 2K, Music Hall MMF-7 & Vandersteen 3a Sigs.

In my youth, I did have a pair of Ohm L speakers... Did they count as "high end" ??
gunbei
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My girlfriend forced me into hi fi.
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pehare
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hearing steppenwolf 'monster' on an early 70's marantz receiver & gerrard(?)turntable in my buddy's bedroom w/what I'm now guessing were sansui speakers(?), you know the ones w/the diagonal wood lattice grills. LP's were 3.99 but we mostly bought the 99 cent cut-outs from the Murphy's or Woolworth's dime stores. great memories flooding back, thanks for the thread joe.
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