How did you become an audiophile?

[Maxprocrj]

In India Money doesn't come easy....
Being an Audiophile and sustaining that hobby is not that easy....honestly speaking for a Guy like me at least...

It would be interesting to know to see how people started along the audiophile path.......!!

I have started to making on an Audiophile when I was doing r&d over net for buying a pair of Bose speaker.......story go like this............If We all agree on the fundamentals facts in life: having a wide frequency response and getting a realistic virtual image, whatever that means then come on friends please share your story here..........!!

Happy Listening..

 

[sbg]

http://www.hifivision.com/av-lounge/7619-pls-post-abt-your-journey-hifi-world.html

A lot can be Read here.

 

[koushik]

Hey that's an interesting topic.

Most of the part of my story can be found here-
http://www.hifivision.com/music/41573-high-fidelity-just-means-end.html#post478866

I would just put some more here. I was always listening to music since my childhood. I had a mono Santosh tape recorder back in late 80s. The sound doesn't made be happy. I was <10 years old then. Convinced my father to buy me an ampli-box with a 6" full range speaker in it. These were very popular those days with a volume, bass and treble or only volume and tone control. I was happy for some time but the "budding audiophile" had the upgrading-bugs active inside his brain.

Then came a 80W(haaa!!) philips stereo system (double deck :indifferent14: ). After that the story is in my above link, I am quoting it here:

Back in early 90s I first started the journey with my own set of stereos leaving what I have inherited. Then in mid 90s I was happy with a locally hand made STK459 Amp and assembled 3way speaker with sweton drivers. Then moved to Sonodyne vintage. Eventually bought a pair of Sonodyne 306 floor standers that cost me 14k 15 years back. Quite a significant amount in those days considering that I was in 12th standard. It was then I stopped upgrading and enjoying my music for this long. Always missing something in the sound, reading avmax and itching to upgrade but was always careful to spend money wisely. Then only recently early last year I started upgrading my setup under the guidance of a very able audio engineer and a great audiophile.

But in between all these years till now the thing that never left the center stage is the music. Be it 60s bad recording to 2ks Rahman avg. to good recording. Tunes and melodies will always get priority.

 

[koushik]

I must add, it is very very expensive hobby it was never easy and it is not easy even now to sustain this hobby but somehow I manage to practice my hobby ... Credit Card

 

[Maxprocrj]

Credit card:clapping::clapping:

 

[koushik]

Yes, the Credit goes to the Card!

 

[ravidharap]

Yes, the Credit goes to the Card!

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[Staxxx]

Post moved to similar thread at link posted above.....and below

 

[spirovious]

http://www.hifivision.com/av-lounge/7619-pls-post-abt-your-journey-hifi-world.html

A lot can be Read here.

Yes,why not to write in only one thread?

 

[Staxxx]

So sorry will repost above there. I hope the mods can merge the threads ? Thanks.

 

[gcpraveen]

So sorry will repost above there. I hope the mods can merge the threads ? Thanks.

Journey of hifiworld is better, people like me are way far from audiophiles

Thanks,
Praveen.
sent from SGS2 skyrocket.

 

[Maxprocrj]

These are good things in life.

 

[greenhorn]

Both my parents are big Jim Reeves fans. My mom says that when she was carrying me, She used to play his songs to calm me down when she felt I was getting restless.

Been a fan of Jim Reeves and his velvet baritone voice ever since I can remember. The equipment came later