[JSchmitz]

Originally Posted by rolling money pits

Man I wish I had photos of all my incarnations over the years. A college roommate got me into hifi, got me exposed to adcom, Denon and phase technology.

First “good” piece, a Sony ES cd player, 229 model I believe. Still have it, still works as good as the day I bought it. Then, in 92 I think, got my KG4s.

FF to 99/2000, my first eBay win was a backed into ( high bidder bailed at last second ) sunfire cinema grand signature. Then a buddy sold me ( for a song ), adcom gtp600, gfa545 and their A/C enhancer. Traded the preamp for a sunfire theater grand processor. Got more for trade in than I paid for the whole lot.

Then a pair of phase tech PC500s, run with my trusty radio shack lamp cord speaker wire. lol. Got a set of kimber 4TCs and was stunned at the sonic difference.

The theater grand wasn’t doing it for me, so after 6 or so months traded that in for the krell HTS processor.

Then hi res audio turned my crank and I was investing in Marantz SACD/dvd audio players. Since I didn’t have enough of them decided I was going to get Sony 9000ES player…one never knows how many CD/DVD players one will need at any given time.

Phase Techs weren’t doing so time to upgrade….after several hours of auditioning speakers I picked up aerial model 6s.

Was pretty much complete by then…

One regret was I never invested in a good turntable, had a choice between a B&O and a pioneer linear tracking job, the salesman did his job to perfection, but my 15 year old brain didn’t understand the point he was making….I still have the pioneer, and it still works, so there’s that.

Nice. My first CD player was a 1986 Sony CDP-25. Long gone. Found a pic on the net.