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- Gender:
- Male
- Birthday:
- Jan 23, 1954 (Age: 70)
- Home Page:
- https://groups.io/g/SETriodes
- Location:
- Orlando, Florida
- Occupation:
- Retired
- Gear List:
- Genesis CD-4 (used strictly as a transport) powered with a Snake River Audio Signature Series Hybrid power cord and connected via an Atelier Rullit wire to a tubed Musical Paradise MP-D2 DAC. The DAC is powered via a Sablon Audio Gran Corona power cord. and connects via NBS Professional ICs to a 40W/ch, Mastersound Reference 845, Integrated, SET amp. The Mastersound is powered via Hi-Diamond 4 power cord. The Mastersound then feeds the signal via Snake River Audio Signature Series speaker wires to Reference 3A Taksim speakers...
I'm a 66-year-old toad, who's been an audiophile since I was 10! That's when I heard The Beatles play on The Ed Sullivan show and I was completely smitten. I asked my parents to please buy me a stereo so I could play some music I wanted to listen to. They did, but much to my dismay when I opened my present I saw one of those record players with the two speakers inside of the record player that looked like this: https://tinyurl.com/1960-Record-PLayer Now, of course, I had to act happy, but I wasn't!
That became especially true after we visited my mom's more wealthy sister and kids playing their records on one of those nice Magnavox tubed console stereos. That's what I needed but where and how could a 10-year-old kid get one? Well, luckily for me where I grew up in Connecticut, East Hartford and Manchester which were both middle-class and Glastonbury which ranged from the upper-middle class to the wealthy ---{Oprah's friend Gail King lived in Glastonbury and I believe still does, but I digress}--- In any event, all these three towns had borders that met near where I lived. The best part was once a month you could discard ANYTHING you could get to the curb in front of your home.
So when that special garbage day arrived, I'd ride my bike up into Glastonbury looking for anything audio related and when I found something, I'd gut the unit and bring home the tube amps, preamp/tuner and the turntable that was top mounted. In any event in less than six months, I had an all-tube audio system consisting of a tube amp, tube preamp/tuner, and a turntable which I mounted on the various Hartford Club wooden soda crates when they delivered the soda to our home. The only thing missing were good speakers. One night my best friend and I rode our bikes to the high school and we took the two Electro-Voice EV Musicaster down from the stand of the football field and brought them home, one on each bike! I'm not advocating stealing and I was just a stupid 10-year-old at the time. But I had a better audio system than I heard anywhere else and it remained that way for a loonngggg time!
When that system was built, inspired by The Beatles music, an audiophile was born...Interact
