Leading on from the 'how long have you had your current setup' thread - how did you get where you are now? My up- and downgrade saga has gone like this:
First hifi - Dual 505/Denon DRM-07/Creek CAS4040/Acoustic Research AR18BX which lasted me through university
Left the turntable and amp with my brother when I came down to London and spent two thirds of my first months' salary on a Revolver turntable and Rotel RA820BX2, which I swapped after about a month for an Arcam Alpha 2
Added a JVC CD Player in 1991 or so (hey, it was free)
That was it for a long time until after I was married, when the aesthetic committee kicked in, and a small shiny hifi was requested (hey, any excuse to spend money), so we got a Denon mii (the three box, three CD-changer thingie) with a pair of KEF Coda 7s (the Missions we also auditioned sounded better but were too big). It was at this time that the hifi drawer was started.........
This is where it got complicated, I'll try to keep it in the right order.........
Denon mini went to kitchen, sitting room stereo became wharfedale DVD player/Yamaha surround system
Added Systemdek turntable and Denon tuner
Surround sound converted to stereo-only with Tannoy Revolution R2s
DVD player went under telly and stereo became turntable/JVC CD player/yamaha amp/Tannoys
Aesthetics committee intervened again, wanted small silver stereo for living room again, so the whole lot was sold or drawered and replaced with a Musical Fidelity X-Ray v3 and X-80 and a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 9.1s
Then I got skint after being out of work for six months, so the whole lot went and I was back to the JVC and Yamaha with Diamond 9.1s.......
(It's ok, home straight now)
So anyway, once I was back in work, socially acceptable stereo was on the agenda again, so - in chronological order - Yamaha swapped for the Alpha again, then the JVC was replaced with the Cambridge 640C, Arcam with a Creek Classic, Wharfedales went to the Denon in the kitchen and replaced with PMC DB1+s. And that was it until recently, when my wife finally gave me my 40th birthday present (my card said "IOU a Turntable") of an RPM5.2, then a Primare D20 came up on eBay at an unavoidably low price. And since it would be a shame not to have matching kit, the A20 amp has followed. Speakers are next......
First hifi - Dual 505/Denon DRM-07/Creek CAS4040/Acoustic Research AR18BX which lasted me through university
Left the turntable and amp with my brother when I came down to London and spent two thirds of my first months' salary on a Revolver turntable and Rotel RA820BX2, which I swapped after about a month for an Arcam Alpha 2
Added a JVC CD Player in 1991 or so (hey, it was free)
That was it for a long time until after I was married, when the aesthetic committee kicked in, and a small shiny hifi was requested (hey, any excuse to spend money), so we got a Denon mii (the three box, three CD-changer thingie) with a pair of KEF Coda 7s (the Missions we also auditioned sounded better but were too big). It was at this time that the hifi drawer was started.........
This is where it got complicated, I'll try to keep it in the right order.........
Denon mini went to kitchen, sitting room stereo became wharfedale DVD player/Yamaha surround system
Added Systemdek turntable and Denon tuner
Surround sound converted to stereo-only with Tannoy Revolution R2s
DVD player went under telly and stereo became turntable/JVC CD player/yamaha amp/Tannoys
Aesthetics committee intervened again, wanted small silver stereo for living room again, so the whole lot was sold or drawered and replaced with a Musical Fidelity X-Ray v3 and X-80 and a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 9.1s
Then I got skint after being out of work for six months, so the whole lot went and I was back to the JVC and Yamaha with Diamond 9.1s.......
(It's ok, home straight now)
So anyway, once I was back in work, socially acceptable stereo was on the agenda again, so - in chronological order - Yamaha swapped for the Alpha again, then the JVC was replaced with the Cambridge 640C, Arcam with a Creek Classic, Wharfedales went to the Denon in the kitchen and replaced with PMC DB1+s. And that was it until recently, when my wife finally gave me my 40th birthday present (my card said "IOU a Turntable") of an RPM5.2, then a Primare D20 came up on eBay at an unavoidably low price. And since it would be a shame not to have matching kit, the A20 amp has followed. Speakers are next......