Hello. Just joined today.
Started my journey in 1992 with a used Counterpoint Hybrid Amp, Meridian (206?) CDP, used PS Audio pre and new Mirage M3 loudspeakers.
To this day, I clearly remember sitting in the audio shop in Southern California with the gentleman demoing with Stanley Clarke playing acoustic bass from Return to Forever. The shop unfairly played through Audio Research electronics which no one would have partnered with these loudspeakers ever. I purchased those speakers right there and vowed I’d get ARC equipment one day.
Eventually I realized the PS Audio preamp was suffocating the sound and stumbled upon a used Audible Illusions preamp which really opened up everything (but bass was never tight).
Eventually I met my wife and I moved out of my apartment in Playa del Rey to our first purchased home in the same town.
There was a fantastic upstairs audio shop in Santa Monica I knew about. He specialized in ARC and Vandersteen. It was 1997 and I purchased a brand new ARC VT100 amp (which I still have today and am looking at replacing). I also bought a new Meridian 508.24 CDP and demo Dunlavy SC4s the same year (i’ll never forget them being delivered in a Volvo station wagon to our front door
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Except for a REL Stentor I purchased for our new home in Los Gatos, my system, now back on the east coast changed little until recently with the addition of an Auralic streamer (love it), a Burson Reference Conductor (direct to Amp), and most importantly, sold the Dunlavy and love my Dali Epicon 2s buying decision.
Looking to upgrade my amp and dac this year.
I am also fortunate to have a dedicated, sound-treated listening room.
