What got you started into "hi-fi ?

Just interested in how you first got bitten by the Bug ? Was it through your parents system perhaps , or a friend;s kit ? A hifi shop or.....?

Mine was when i went to buy a pair of speaker's (can't remember what they were, squat ugly things tho) from an elderly chap through the local paper, (£25)as i had a cheap amp , TT and no speaker's. He plonked them on the floor and hooked them up to 2 gunmetal grey boxes with the word Mission on them. Never seen anything like them before and i was intrigued.
Think it was around 1990 and i took along a Kate Bush album as he said bring something you know.
30 secs later and i was stunned. I was hearing this holographic sound all around me from these two ugly boxes sitting on the floor with me stood between them. It was actually a bit disconcerting- like my brain was having trouble processing what my ears were hearing.
I have never forgotten that experience , nor have i yet replicated it:( And that was my start into hifi , still trying to get that same sound now, what - 25 years later. I will not give up nor daresay be totally happy until i do. Some days i wish i had never heard it.
BTW - i have never seen those Mission monoblocks anywhere since either.

My inspiration - My Father

As a kid listening to music like Adamski , Talk Talk , OMD , Pet Shop Boys , You Name it he's had a lot of High end gear although not so much now :steam:

Thats my part said...:) Though he still has a collection of 3000 + Records

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Originally Posted by dantheman91

My inspiration - My Father

As a kid listening to music like Adamski , Talk Talk , OMD , Pet Shop Boys , You Name it he's had a lot of High end gear although not so much now :steam:

Thats my part said...:) Though he still has a collection of 3000 + Records

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OMD I play there CDs every week absaultly fantastic messages enola day Joan of arc etc etc Pandora's box is amazing !!

15 by chance walked into a shop & a linn/naim active isobariks system was playing paul simon

just a bit better than my music centre , by 16 i bought a LP12

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Originally Posted by daytona600

15 by chance walked into a shop & a linn/naim active isobariks system was playing paul simon

just a bit better than my music centre , by 16 i bought a LP12

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Musta had some paper round ;)

I'd always had an interest in record players, as the old man used to build his own, but didn't hear Hi-Fi until a mate bought a system around 1969/1970. it was a Garrard AP76 with a Shure cartridge, Sansui AU-101 amp and Goodmans Magister K2 speakers. I thought it sounded incredible and was hooked.

I made a few bad choices starting off. First setup was a Garrard SP25 Mk. III with a Sonotone ceramic cartridge and an Amstrad 8000 amp driving EMI 450 elliptical speakers in home made boxes. It was a cheap system and total crap.

My first proper Hi-Fi was this:

http://i63.tinypic.com/x40pj5.jpg

Recognise any of it?

Never been into HiFi since I was young, as can be seen by my gear :D I guess starting to work in a repair shop at 13 started me off, enjoying ITT & Hacker radios and aspiring to a B&O system that an engineer had later on. never got one, though a set of their speakers passed through my hands briefly.

Cannabis and falling in with a funny crowd at an impressionable age I expect.

I quit that but the music and hifi bug stuck.

I had a windup gramaphone as a kid, and listened to dad's dansette later, at 17 (1969) I bought a Fidelity UA5 "music centre", t/t. radio, cassette, amplifier, microphone and 2!! SPEAKERS!!.£179 was a lot to me back then.

Sitting in the middle and have a guitar on one side, drum kit on the other and a singer in the middle was absolutely superb to me, so that set me off on a lovely journey I still enjoy.

cheers Al

Simple-From my Dad!

S.