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Your oldest gear?
What’s the oldest piece of equipment in your system?
What piece of equipment have you owned the longest?
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My oldest piece is my McIntosh dealer display light as shown in my Virtual System. I acquired it when doing a major upgrade to my McIntosh gear back in about 1992. I talked the dealer sales guy into giving it to me at no charge. He didn’t ask for approval, snuck it out of the store when helping me load up the gear in my vehicle, and got fired a few days later when the store manager noticed it was missing. I felt bad that he got fired but I still love having it on my rack. The test of my gear ranges from 2009 to about one month ago. |
My headphone by far : 1978.... The mighty AKG K340 hybrid... The best design ever made ... Alas! never improved either because it would have been too costly to redesign it on the same principle... ( the mythical AKG K1000 was redesigned by the same people : call now "mysphere" headphone) The K340 once flagship of AKG give us : "Out of the head" soundfield, speaker like sound, bass we may field with our toes(bone resonance) A soundstage which vary accordingly to each recorded conditions and trade-Off... Why is it the best ever on all acoustics count averaged (not on each one though no headphone is perfect on all counts) ? I read that the better headphone for Jay Iyagi 6 years ago was Raal SR1a (now he listen a Sennheiser HD600 for confort i think ) he said he connected a subwoofer with the Raal because it lack bass ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIU7vrfvSXE I paid 100 bucks for my vintage K340 marvel and i do not need a sub to feel bass not just with my ears but with my body ... Vintage dont means outdated in all case ... Very few speakers can beat my headphone soundstage in classical music... It takes great speakers in a dedicated acoustically controlled room ... You understand now why i smile and i am satisfied with my active small speakers+sub and headphone K340 for 1000 bucks .... |
AMP- Some day I need to ship this kit to my Step Father across the country and try to do an A-B listening comparison with his much more modern 2020-ish full system and big Legacy Audio Focus SE speakers. |
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