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Your first real hifi

killie99

pfm Member
1984, just received my student grant so I put it to good use and bought:

NAD 3020A
Dual 515 Turntable
Omar Wendover speakers

Within a week I was cursing myself for not spending the extra £30 on a Dual 505.
 
Student

Sansui SR222MkIV with Nagoka MP11
Sansui AUD22X Amplifier
Wilmslow Audio Kit Speakers

First Paid Employment

Revolver with Nagoka MP11
Rotel 820BX
Wilmslow Audio Kit Speakers
 
First paid employment:

Sony PST1 direct-drive turntable
Goodmans tuner-amp
Goodmans RB35 speakers (in a room that was way too small for them.
 
Variety of entry-level Sony separates with Mission speakers.

exactly the same as me!! little mission 760iSE's with some big brushed aluminium fronted 70's sony seperates.

i still have the little missions..amazing little speakers.
 
1976: a girlfriends older sisters system

Garrard SP25 Goldring G800 cartridge
Videotone Minimax
Eagle amp of some sort

- as she wanted "a receiver thingy in one box with a radio"
She charged me £10 for the lot... :)
 
Another student grant job (those were the days!):

TD160
A&R A60
AR18

All still in active service in my 'B' system, almost thirty years later.
 
1998 - gf bought us technics amp/ technics cd/ tannoy mercury m1 speakers. Lasted nicely till cd player started playing up in 2005.
 
1979...

Sansui SR222 Mk2
Ortofon FF15E/LMG1 headshell
Sugden A21
Celestion Ditton 15 hooked up with QED 79 Strand.

I was in friggin' hifi heaven. :)
 
Pioneer PL12D with Shure M75ED
Yamaha CA610 amp
Home brew speakers, based on B200 and Audax 25mm

Powered many a student party.....
 
exactly the same as me!! little mission 760iSE's with some big brushed aluminium fronted 70's sony seperates.

i still have the little missions..amazing little speakers.

It was a different era for me. I was at school still, but after the 70's. ;)

Mission 702e - click
My main Sony source was MiniDisc - click - I cycled home with this under my arm!
I was also partial to the AV amps too - Sony QS STR930

By Sixth Form I started building a Cyrus system.

During the first 2yrs of Uni I became a box-swapper -I think I had 10 amps last year!

Now I am more settled with the simple AVI active speakers.

By graduation I hope to have kicked the HiFi habit so that I stop wasting time and money! :)
 
First Paid Employment (had to wait for 3 years to afford):

Rega planar 3
A&R cambridge A60
Heybrook HB2

Jean-Christophe
 
1990 - Whilst at tech College at age 18. Partly bought cheaply from a mate that was moving on to a bus, partly bought new from Salisbury Hi Fi. Funding sources unspecified ;-)

Leak Delta Amp, Technics T/T (some kind of fully automatic button operated 1210), AT 110E, Yamaha NS10's and a Sony CDP-990

Sounded Damn fine. Until one of the amp channels died after about 3 months.
 
1970- 13 years old and saved up lunch money and earnings from mowing yards:

Dual 1215 turntable w\Shure V15 III cartridge

Heathkit 15WPC tube integrated amp circa 1962

BIC Formula 4 speakers (wretched, beyond ghastly, bought from hifi mag review, never did that again)
 
cant remember the year, but,

marantz cd 46
harmon kardon hk610 amp
mission 731 speakers
qed qudos cable.

loved it!! :D
 
Mid '60's, still at school, part-time work in a petrol station allowed me to convert a two speaker mono radiogram to stereo by the addition of a BSR deck and ceramic cartridge, and a Northcourt 5W valve amp. I thought it was brilliant. Within 6 months, and a few visits to the local Hi Fi shop it was a Garrard deck, Shure cartridge, homemade Sinclair amp and homemade speakers with Elac units - now that was good!

40 yrs later and still at it, but no DIY components anymore, and it still sounds good. I wonder what the future has in store?

Tillman
 
In about 1973 or 1974, Dual 1209 (?), Shure something nasty, maybe M75ED, home-made amp, horrible home-made speakers. My first power amp used to die fairly often; it was based on an RCA handbook design.
 
About 1998 I reckon

Marantz CD67 OSE
Rotel RC971? pre
Rotel RB9?? power
Maudaunt Short 25i floor standers (still got somewhere!)

Later swapped the single Power amp with a bloke at work for two of the previous model power amps and used them as monos, was very happy until I discovered forums and ebay.
 
Goldring Lenco GL75/Shure M75-EJ (replaced Garrard AP76/M75-ED) in 1975
Armstrong 621 amp - motorboated from new so replaced with
Lustraphone LP100 amp - lovely, sweet sound and good styling
Audiomaster Image 1's which became Image 2's (designed by Robin [Epos] Marshall with hideously complex crossover - he learned valuable lessons from these)
Sony TC366 reel to reel
 


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