What are your Eureka Moments in this Hobby?


OK so I did steal this term form @lordmelton 

I wandered through midfi.  Surround speakers, 5.1 set ups, eventually getting to Classe Pre / Pro, Parasound 5 channel amp, Bowers and Wilkens Nautilus 800 series speakers and M / K Subs.  Then the best thing ever happened.  My Classe SSP-800 Pre / Pro broke for the second time.  So I ended up getting an Audionet Pre G-1 preamp.  Eureka!  What were your events?

fastfreight

Could not agree more @zlone !  Audionet gear is impressive from the bottom to the top of their line with respect to preamps, amps and integrateds.  

To hear what is possible:

- Staked Quads, ML Electronics, subs the size of coffins at Victors Stereo in Chicago

- top of the line MBL demo at CAF

 

for my system:

when my local dealer in 1988 agreed to take back my ProAc Studio 100s and stands plus a little $$ for a demo set of ProAc Studio 3 with ATC drivers. Put my early system in a different league. Still using the speakers.

Bringing tube amps into repair to my local shop who always sent me home with a better amp to listen to. 

Thanks and they quickly became my dealer also preamp, amp and speakers all built by them.