Where did it all start for you? The music and hi-fi thing I mean.

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My entry into hi fi is really because of my Dad, he always had some kind of record player or radiogram about, also used to have the odd reel to reel tape deck around as well, which I always thought looked pretty impressive...

So, in my mid teens, I whined and moaned at him until he bought me secondhand hi fi separates, a Goldring GL75, with Amstrad (tuner/amp) and a pair of Wharfedale speakers (Dittons?), the first 45rpm single I ever bought was Paul Simons, Me and julio down at the Schoolyard, loved it, the first album was T Rex, Bolan Boogie.

I then moved onto a Trio deck (not the KD 1033, one or two above that, it was ivory coloured), Pioneer amp, Aiwa cassette deck (the wedged shaped one), Yamaha tuner, Acoustic Research bookshelf speakers, then moved onto an Ariston RD11s, SME/Ortofon VMS20E setup, then moved onto a Denon amp and B&W speakers, music tastes was rock/blues/female vocals.

This combination took me up to 1983, when I took the head staggers and sold my hi fi equipment and gave all my LPs away, mostly to my sisters. Hi fi was given a 20 year break until 2003 or so, when I bought a Cambridge Audio A5 amp, and Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 speakers, playing MP3s from computer, connected an early Beresford DAC but didn't really do anything so sold that on, then upgraded to NAD C320BEE and Kef iQ1s, then bought SqueezeBox Classic (3), Marantz PM7001 and Wharfedale Diamond 10.1 speakers, with firstly CA DACmagic, then ZeroDAC (Upgrade version), recently have moved onto SqueezeBox Touch, Roksan Kandy K2 (int amp), Audio-GB DAC-19MK3, PMC DB1S+ and some Mark Grant cables, FLACs and high VBR MP3s streamed from small file server...

That is everything to date I think...