My story started like Jameswei's. My folks bought a large Magnavox console in the sixties with 15" woofers, horn highend and 100 watt amp. I thought it sounded better than anything I had ever heard, until the guy in the room next to mine in the dorm played his bookshelf system. It was a three-piece system with the turntable on top of the receiver and small speakers. When I went home at Easter that year, my Dad's Magnavox sounded terrible with overpowering, boomy bass.
The next year, another college friend showed up with his new "college speakers" that he had constructed during the summer. These were 8 cubic foot cabinets with a 15" JBL pro woofer and a 15" passive radiator in each, actively biamped to a pair of 5" JBL mids and a JBL tweeter. A revelation in what recorded music could sound like.
The bug bit hard.
Bill
The next year, another college friend showed up with his new "college speakers" that he had constructed during the summer. These were 8 cubic foot cabinets with a 15" JBL pro woofer and a 15" passive radiator in each, actively biamped to a pair of 5" JBL mids and a JBL tweeter. A revelation in what recorded music could sound like.
The bug bit hard.
Bill