What classics changed your hi-fi life?

[Filterlab]

...Pro-ac Super Tablets...

Excellent speakers, I love ProAc stuff.

[Spectral Morn]

Hi

Yes the Super Tablets were and still are amazing(no bass to speak of), but the midrange, focus and their ability to vanish totally. To this day I still haven't found anything that quite sounds this way. The sound I have now is vastly better than back then but memory is a funny thing, there are times when I think sometimes I am not better off. However I know if I put everything back together from then that what I have now will be so much better. But your early experiences with audio are so special that it leaves a massive mark on everything which follows. Evey thing was so fresh, so new, so virginal. All the crap that hangs on to us now was absent. It was all about the music. It still should be but is it?

Regards D S D L

[Filterlab]

Indeed, I often wonder if I'd have been happy sticking with my Creek 4140S3 and my Tannoy Mercury Gold S speakers and my mains cable for speaker cable. Times were simpler then, my first source was a Sony tapedeck - cracking it was!

[Spectral Morn]

I still have the kit I had and all the cables. Maybe I should wire it all back up and see how it sounds. The only problem is the room I had then is not the same now. This system and all its bits and bobs were put together to suit a room. I tuned the system to the room. When I got married and moved to where I am now the sound was no where near as good.

The room I tried was nearly the same in size but the materials it was made of were not. In fact this room was actually better(not as resonant) but that original set up was like a highly tuned musical instrument. System and room one.
Several years of set up and adjustment made for a fantastic set up. Customers who used to come to my house for a listen were always blown away by how good a system could sound in a small room.

Regards D S D L

[Beechwoods]

Meddle by Pink Floyd

[John]

i guess the 401 on a slatedeck changed my views upside down I moved away from being a belt man as just loved the way the 401 allows the music to flow through

[Spectral Morn]

I think everyone will agree this is a classic around for 25 years plus.

I remember the first time I saw one on the front cover off a magazine called New hi-fi Sounds. I said that I would get one, one day which I did.

A joker in the place I worked in back then once presented me with an Absolute sounds point of sales hard board picture of a mk3 Delphi. He thought this was funny as he had wound me up for awhile. Would you like A Delphi etc etc. I had the last laugh though as he sold me his mk4 a year latter. The TT he got in my opinion did not sound as good.

Anyway I have had it and loved it ever since.

Regards D S D L

[shane]

Lecson AC1/AP3.

Having only heard crap Japanese amps or Quad, Leak and Armstrong's early SS efforts (this would be about 1975), these amps were the first I'd come across that sounded instantly and hugely different from anything I'd heard before, and showed that speakers weren't necessarily the most important part of a system. Still think it's the best looking amp ever as well.

Lecson HL1.

This strange corner-horn device arrived in the shop one day, again around 1975. From the floor below, I was convinced that a live band was playing upstairs, despite the deeply unlikely fact that the band in question was Led Zeppelin, who were not known for impromptu appearances in small Devon hifi shops. After a diet of small British speakers from the likes of Wharfedale, Celestion and Monitor Audio, they were a real eye-opener on different approaches to music making. Horribly coloured but enormous fun, like most commercial horns.

[Filterlab]

The Lecson AC1/AP3:



Funny, I always thought this was a Boothroyd Stuart design, then I found out that it was Meridian Lecson.

[i_should_coco]

Owning Quad ESL57s made me realise that I didn't much like electrostatics!

Certainly changed my hifi life realising that!