The ones that had replaced my vintage L25 Jubals. Will spare you the gory details of how I eventually broke out of this cycle, and skip to the punchline.Īfter buying some much better Linaeum Model 10 speakers it took me a while to find a buyer for the JBL L7 speakers. When shopping my ears were so attuned to this sound I was actually turned off by gear I now am quite certain was actually a whole lot better. 20 years later the system itself had somehow become my standard. In the beginning I was in band, and comparing components to real live acoustic instruments. This was wonderful for back then and better than anything I heard all through college and for years afterwards. God no- on all counts! As a kid in the 70's I spent endless hours researching and shopping, eventually building a classic "vintage" system of JBL, Kenwood, Pioneer, and Technics. Times? Are our choices psychological, nostalgic even.? Think we strive to return to the past and remain in those influential How does it compare with your present system (your now). What was your first significant experience with quality audio (then) and Each plateau blows away the previous level, so, no nostalgia for me. Up, only 2x in original cost or more (sometimes I bought used). The levels of performance now where unachievable when I was younger. Each decade my system has been far greater than the decade before.
GARRARD ZERO 100 GETS STUCK AT BEGINNING OF RECORD UPGRADE
Always concentrating on one piece at a time and making sure an upgrade cycle stopped with all components roughly matched. Since then I have upgraded piece after piece as i could afford it. True audiophile equipment is in a different class. The highest quality designs and components never show up in mid-fi and lower high fi. That piece of junk Onkyo was thin and virtually without bass in comparison (even before I took it in), That is when I learned that truely high end gear is something else, in a different league, and stays there. The bass was an order of magnitude better, with far greater detail. He said, “Here, take this home and try it.” It was a 7 year old, first generation Nakamichi cassette deck… wood around the outside, weighed a ton. So I went to a truly high end store and told him my problem. I though the tape head could be better optimized so I took it to and audio guy… sounded terrible after that. About 1979 I purchased a very highly rated Onkyo tape deck (award winning).