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What was your Hi-Fi System in 1989?

Linn LP12/Ekos/Asaka
Ion obelisk Xpac 3 Amplifier
Royd Eden on Kan 2 stands

All purchased at the time from Chris Brooks audio Warrington

It skint me at the time
 
As I was afraid of not following the Jones'es it was:
- LP12/Ekos/Lingo/Troika
- LK1/LK2
- Sara
Probably an Aiwa cassette for recording to the car.
 
MISSION DAD7000 CD-Player
MISSION ISO-PLAT support
PLINIUS 2C Line Preamp
PLINIUS 3C Poweramp
CRYSTAL Speaker Cables
B&W DM220 Loudspeakers

I’ve still got the pale blue/grey Crystal Speaker Cables and they still sound great, but these days, they battle it out with super-skinny DNM cables.

I never enjoyed the B&W Loudspeakers.

I still don’t enjoy B&W loudspeakers… 😂
 
Thorens TD160, SME arm, Ortofon MM cartridge
Philips cd player - can’t remember the model although it was the only hifi item stolen in a burglary
Creek CS4040 amp
Rotel RT300 AM/FM tuner
Rega ELA Mk2 speakers
 
No picture but: Thorens TD160 + Shure V15IVMR, Kaneda preamp, Ampliton TS3000 valve amp, DIY FM tuner, Technics cassette deck, Micromega CD player, Daline (Focal) speakers.
 
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Roksan xerxes Rega rb300 goldring eroica
Naim nait 2
Royd Edens ( replaced by AE1’s)
Only the arm remains but I’d love to hear that system in my room now
 
By the end of 1989 I got 21 and was in fourth-year college.

Dual CS-5000 with Denon DL-301
Sony CD-P670
Nakamichi CR-2
Cyrus One
BNS Quintet speakers (probably)
 
I didn’t make a separates move till 1991. I had:

Arcam Alpha 3
Marantz CD52 Mkii
Denon TU 260L
Mission 751 bi-wired

Bought from Doug Brady in Warrington. Happy days.
 
In 1989 I think it was:

Thorens TD160 + SME 3009 Series II improved fixed headshell + FD200 damper + AKG P8ES
Philips CD303
Quad FM4 + 34 + 405-2 integrated stack *
Celestion Ditton 25

* A Quad competition win :D for answering several music quizzes from their adverts in BBC proms concert programmes across the season a couple of years earlier, replacing a Leak 2200 and a Yamaha CT-1000
 
1988 I moved from a LP12 Quad system in a flat to a new system in a bedsit.

So in 1989
LP12 Ittok Trak Target stand
Exposure 6/7/8 Target stand
Monitor Audio R852MD on Heybrook HBS1 stands
NAC A4 , Exposure interconnect and captive mains leads

I enjoyed that system for 20 years, it rocked. I still use the Heybrook stands in a two bedroom flat.
 
Pioneer S9000 top of the line midi system with some Elac EL80's. I could have bought so much better for the money, but what did I know. It had a double auto reverse cassette deck that was programmable. I thought that was cool, but ofcourse it's a bullish#t function. Imagine 10 tracks on one side of a cassette then wanting to listen track 2, then 7, then 1, then 9, etc. The waiting time between tracks was minutes, as a cassette doesn't wind that fast. Totally useless function, what was I thinking... I was also very fond of graphic equalizers, mainly because of the lights. I added a pretty expensive Onkyo equalizer (EQ 840 I think) later on. Three years later I sold the bunch for a Rotel RC/RB 870 and the real journey began.
 
I had something very similar to this - I think this one was probably the next model up or perhaps the next year's model. Casseiver top deck and the TT below is the same. Came with a pair of Akai speakers my mum had bought for my 18th. It really wasn't too had it until 1996 through force of circumstances

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LP12 red button, Basik Plus, Ortofon VMS30.2
Sony integrated, Sony tuner (can’t remember the models)
Kef Concorde 4

All bought 2nd hand.

I still have the LP12 and a few bits haven’t changed since 89; the top plate, motor and outer platter…
 
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