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    No Piccys but my 1st system in 1979 was :

    Hitachi DD turntable with shure 55ed (?) cartridge
    Rotel RA1412 (loved this amp, grab handles / VU metres looked the dog's, still used by my cousin)
    Wharfedale E50 speakers
    JVC analogue tuner
    JVC cassette deck
    JVC 7 slider graphic equaliser
    Bog standard IC's & 42 strand speaker cables

    Had lots of fun tweaking the sound to my tastes, and playing very loud with no close neighbours to annoy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Not many students had a hi-fi where I was. One bloke had Goodmans, another Toshiba. The fanciest system anyone had was a Mission/Cyrus with the Mission CD player. He moved to Manchester and immediately got robbed. They took the lot. I thought they'd done him a favour as it was even worse than the Toshiba set up but I never said anything to him.
    I was pretty set up by the time I went to college. I had a Marantz 2270, CD-63, 6300 table, and one of the ugly gold cassette decks that I don't remember the model # of. Klipsch Heresy speakers. It took up half of the dorm room.

    Everyone was ditching that stuff for all in one surround systems in the late 90's. I got most of it for free for wiring those up for people. It wasn't exactly audiophile grade but the cops showed up quite a few times.
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    Think it was Fine Fare before that Grant?
    Hard to forget the naff yellow packaging!

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    I had one of these in my early teens and it sounded great

    Linn Sondek LP12, Ittok, AT-F7
    Schiit Mani MK1 Phono Pre-Amp
    Nobsound NS-08P Bluetooth pre-amp
    Marantz CD5004 CD Player
    Pure DAB tuner
    2 x Meridian 205 monoblock power amps
    Tannoy T225 "Mayfair" speakers
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    My very first stereo came off the back of a dustcart. Literally! It had just been slung out and I scrounged it. It was an 'all in one' record player unit with a lift off second speaker, it worked OK too. Can't remember the make. That must have been about 1967.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Join Date: May 2015

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    Had a street find myself in the 80's. A very good pair of Kef Coda III speakers found in amongst the rubbish outside The Screen On The Green in Islington. Who knows, maybe they belonged to an AoS member!

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    My very first 'hifi' wasn't exactly serious but I was the only one in the sixth form that had anything other than a music centre/record player !
    Pretty sure this was late 1977 or early 1978

    It comprised (ahem, from Comet) an Amstrad amplifier and separate turntable all attached to Wharfedale Linton speakers. Unfortunately no photos as far as I know, but I still have the Lintons (in the garage).
    Shortly afterwards I bought a top loading cassette deck from somebody I knew which later progressed to a Hitachi front loader. I can't even remember what make the toploader was. I don't have either of these but strangely I do have the box that the Hitachi came in: even more strange is the fact that my system now isn't much better than that

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    My first amp was an Eagle TSA(70) I think. A small wooden cased thing. I thought it was ok (15w per ch) but with hindsight what I thought was a problem with any speakers I had distorting, I realise now that it was probably the amp which must have been gutless. When you see what a 15w per channel Class D amp can do it is mind blowing. I had some spherical white globe speakers that I got off a mate for a song. They used to sell them in the Kings Road to go with B&O systems at silly prices, and of course the pinnacle of vinyl spinning excellence......a Garrard SP25MkII.
    Buy Bose...And get your parking validated!.

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    Dual 505 TT, Naim NAC12S Pre, Quad 303 Power, Mission 780 Argonauts.
    The 'Pie In Ear' Tower System I had before this doesn't count..!!..


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    Quote Originally Posted by M6NTL View Post
    Dual 505 TT, Naim NAC12S Pre, Quad 303 Power, Mission 780 Argonauts.
    The 'Pie In Ear' Tower System I had before this doesn't count..!!..


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    Bit of an off the wall combo that.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Bit of an off the wall combo that.
    Not kidding!

    I have a funny feeling the Naim might work rather well with the 303.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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