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Products that haunt your reverie?
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Great topic:

Linn LP12 with Ittok and Troika late 1980s - still a reference for me

Rega Planar 2/3 mid 1980s - cheap tables can sound good

Spica TC 50 mid 1980s - impact!

Rogers LS3/5a mid 1980s - natural sound, no listener fatigue

B&W 801 late 1980s - so that is what a reference speaker sounds like (newer models are even better)

Acoustat - various models late 1980s - panels rule!

Apogee Scintilla mid 1980s - ribbons are not just for tying

McIntosh amps last year - ignored them for 25 years until I heard one. Wow - the sound I have been looking for.

Technics 1200 two months ago - DD does not suck as I had been led to believe for the past 25 years

Each of these components introduced me to companies whose products I had never heard. Each of these redefine my expectations of various components and I ended up owning a number of these or related models.

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The loudspeakers that really started this craze for me are the Devore Super 8s running on Pathos Classic MKIII integrated amp. Can't forget that sound...

Devore Nines with Shindo electronics, Spiral Groove & Shindo Garrard TT at the Monkeyhaus: very special.

But nothing really prepared me for what I recently experienced at Oswalds Mill. I heard the gargantuan 4 way horn systems, with Cogent drivers, called the Imperia. But what was more impressive was the sound that the new small 2-way horn speakers called the Mini was making! The sources were Technics SP10 with Schick long arm, Uwe headshell, Denon 103 rodded by Soundsmith... weird step-up trannie that's been salvaged from some vintage gear, which made 103 sound awesome... OMA electronics.

You can see pics in this following link:

http://oswaldsmillaudio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=347.0

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The Sony PCM F1 digital recorder...This thing was a portable pro device that recorded digital to a videotape. I was in Read Brothers in Charleston SC way back in 1979 or 80 and heard a live recording of a local string quartet. It had zero background noise, unheard of in my days of vinyl...no pops, no surface noise, real dynamic range, a glance at what digital might one day become.

Of course it was a 14 bit system and was obsolete in under 3 years as the CD was introduced, but it made me a very early adapter of CD (Sony unit serial number 346)

In more recent days, my first tube amp, a Jolida, was a revelation.

Biggest disappointment...an Advent receiver raved about but that had the worst RFI problem I have ever encountered and could not be repaired..No matter what my source, I got radio...

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Tom Perazella's custom build sure haunts mine... RD 75 Ribbon high/mid driver, Dipole Midbass, and custom subs(8 drivers per side)... Christ Almighty. the only speaker system I am told, that will, during the "another brick in the wall" song, allow one to hear each of the kids voices, seperately, each one with a different inflection/emotion. the alpha and omega of speaker builds.. uploading the audioXpress article(Mr. Perazella is a frequent contributor)

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the goods

http://www.yousendit.com/download/ZW9Bek9ndWM5NVd4dnc9PQ

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I'd have to say the Quad ESL-57 speakers- heard a number of times around 1989-90. I knew even then they didn't do everything- not deep bass and not the kind of punch of something like a full range Pro-Ac. But something about them sounded so damned good! Like a good meal, or crisp air in the lungs. You just wanted that sound! I never could define what it was- still can't but I remember it with a a happy feeling in my ears.

The size also was nuts though- like having two room dividers in the middle of your room! They could never fit into any normal house no matter how hard you tried, which is why I never even thought about trying to get some.

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No to be redundant be redundant (I've posted this system before):

QUAD ESL 57's

Ron Hamilton built/ Mike Moffat designed SET amp.

HK Citation pre-amp modded by R. Hamilton.

Philips 212 with Grado and Decca cartridges (Moffat liked to tape a quarter to the headshell when we used the Decca) .

p.s. dbowker- they are not THAT big!

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