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Hello...
Just a few works to describe my "Hi-Fi Journey" which began in my teens with some listening to other peoples systems. Most notably at the time was a Quad 33/303, ELS 57, a Garrard 405 with SME tracking something I cannot remember, but I do remember being most impressed. Further listening at the time included some well constructed tape recorders and being involved in some recording work. One thing and another, and I purchased a second hand Leak Stereo 20 with varioslope preamp at an affordable price, fed in the first place with a Garrard SP25, with a B&O cartridge. I built some Wharfdale kit speakers in the kitchen much to the annoyance of dad who objected to the chipboard dust (which later in life I describe as toxic and would ban from any workshop). Sometime I had heard some Rogers speakers, and I scoured the second hand adds in the local papers and local Hi-Fi shop until eventually I found a pair, and they were installed in my system, replacing the Wharfdales. Via further Leak equipment and Mitchel turntables the journey led one way and another to a system of Alphason Sonata turntable, Atlas psu, Alphason HR100 MCS tonearm, Audio Technicia AT OC7 cartridge, Naim 62s/140/HiCap/NAT 02, the Rogers BBC Studio Export Monitors, a pair of LS3/5a, oh, and I got a Meridan 208B CD player. All this has been purchased second hand over many years as I could never afford new pricing and I was prepared to wait. Still, it is frightening to tot up the investment!!
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Hi Chris. Welcome to AOS.
Sounds like you've been at this game since the seventies. Your current system largely qualifies as 'vintage', which can be a good thing. Many of us enjoy older equipment.
Tell us what music you listen to and what future plans you may have for your system if any.
This is a friendly place and I'm sure you'll find plenty to interest you, so just join in and chat with everybody.
Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.
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hi Chris. welcome to aos. good intro, hope you enjoy the site:)
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Welcome to AoS Chris,
Nice introduction - you have certainly been exposed to some of the best equipment made in this country, and have ended with a very good system yourself. :)
Quite a few of us here use 'vintage' (or should that be 'classic'?) second hand gear; I think that at least 95% of my system consists of used items.
Enjoy the Forum
Barry
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Welcome to AOS, Chris.
Love vintage kit. Enjoy! [emoji4]
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Music I enjoy...
Just to add to the notes, my music is some classical, but mostly folk, English, Irish and Scottish traditional, and some Blues. And I listen to FM radio broadcasts.