What was your first ever hifi

[Blacksabbath25]

What was your first ever hifi you ever owned

mine was technics SU600 with a Sony cdplayer and Jamo floor standing speakers using the standard cables that came in the box . I loved it

 

[seemorebtts]

My first good hifi was an Arcam av50 with eltax speakers technics 1210 for mixing.iv had stereo's my whole life just not great ones

 

[Blacksabbath25]

My first good hifi was an Arcam av50 with eltax speakers technics 1210 for mixing.iv had stereo's my whole life just not great ones

same here only now I have a great hifi but it's taken me years to get here but it's always been a passion

 

[Gray]

I had to think about it and I can still hardly believe that it was an Alba, yes Alba amplifier!

My Uncle was well into hi-fi (When Hi-Fi News mag. cost 20 pence) and recommended their UA-900 model. It was around 30 watts a channel with separate slide volume controls for each channel - it sounded great and must have been the best thing they've ever made (not saying much I know but it was good)

Also I had a Phillips GA437 turntable / Ortofon FF15E Mk2 cartridge, Celestion Ditton 22 Speakers and the classic JVC KD-21 Cassette Deck (Circa 1978, which I've still got)

Funny how you can still remember your old model numbers from almost 40 years ago!)

 

[Blacksabbath25]

But 40 years ago it was state of art back then

not sure if alba are still going or not

 

[MUSICRAFT]

Hi Bs25

Trio M-50 Midi system

Btw, i still use some of the freebie white/red coloured end interconnects for dems that came supplied with this system.

All the best

Rick @ Musicraft

 

[seemorebtts]

My first good hifi was an Arcam av50 with eltax speakers technics 1210 for mixing.iv had stereo's my whole life just not great ones

same here only now I have a great hifi but it's taken me years to get here but it's always been a passion 

it was the av50 that got me into hifi.couldnt believe how good it sounded and the speakers that was the start of my hifi journey where the warfedale diamonds 10.1

 

[JamesMellor]

Memorex top loading cassette deck . sharp recivier (as a tuner), egale amp, AR7 speakers.

This is 1981

 

[MajorFubar]

Depends on definition of HiFi I guess. At 16 and with weekly deductions from my first my first part time wage I bought an Akai midi system. It was sort of faux separates in so far as everything was in diffrent units, but everything connected together with plug-in connectors between the lid of one unit and the base of the next. At the time I thought it was hifi, but actually it wasn't. It was better than some Matsui from Dixons but not by a great margin, expecially the speakers. Equally, some people on here with their set-ups costing about as much as my house would say even my current system isn't really hifi.

 

[Infiniteloop]

A Fidelity Radio Master (not Musical Fidelity, sadly).

I was 12.

 

[bubobubo]

a radio cassete portable player with speakers and one portable cassete without speakers

 

[steve_1979]

Gemini record player

Yamaha tape player

Kenwood digital EQ

Pioneer amplifier (refitted with custom mosfet power amplifier modules)

Mission 760iSE speakers

Longmill amplifier and subwoofer

 

[plastic penguin]

First 2-channel set-up was a Minerva receiver, homemade turntable and large car speakers that I made boxes for. I was 13 at the time.

In 1978, with help from my dad - he purchased a system from Freeman's catalogue and I paid him back: JVC R-S5 receiver and a Garrard B20 turntable.

Subsequently purchased - Comet warehouse - Solavox SP25 MKII speakers and a Hitachi D230 cassette player.

 

[CarlDW]

My first 'proper' hi-fi was a Sony CDP-XE220 cd player, Cambridge Audio A1 amp and Mordaunt-Short MS812 speakers. I was 16 and paid for it with the wage from my weekend work in a local supermarket. It sounded way better than anything I had heard previously and lasted a good few years before upgrading.

 

[tonky]

I had to think about it and I can still hardly believe that it was an Alba, yes Alba amplifier!

My Uncle was well into hi-fi (When Hi-Fi News mag. cost 20 pence) and recommended their UA-900 model. It was around 30 watts a channel with separate slide volume controls for each channel - it sounded great and must have been the best thing they've ever made (not saying much I know but it was good)

Also I had a Phillips GA437 turntable / Ortofon FF15E Mk2 cartridge, Celestion Ditton 22 Speakers and the classic JVC KD-21 Cassette Deck (Circa 1978, which I've still got)

Funny how you can still remember your old model numbers from almost 40 years ago!)

Hi there Gray - I certainly remember the 33W RMS Alba UA900 amp being popular - As for the cassette deck do you mean the wedge shaped JVC KD 720 cassette tape - I had that - great value and good quality recordings. The Celestions ditton22 were popular at that time.

mid late 70s - had rega planar 2 (ortofon vms 20e cartridge) , Cambridge A and R A60 amp (30 W per channel) and some Monitor Audio MA4 mark 2 speakers - Loved it!!

regards tonky

 

[Blacksabbath25]

some great very first start up hifi its amazing what we all started with at the start when the bug hit *smile*

 

[ellisdj]

Aiwa 5 CD Changer with Bass Boost

 

[drummerman]

The first 'proper' one was a Marantz receiver, a CD player I can't remember the brand of, a Technics Tape Deck with Servo controls, a Turntable the brand of which I can't remember and a pair of Jamo D265 (I think) with huge woofer, a mid and horn loaded tweeter. Loud.

 

[ellisdj]

Are you saying an Aiwa is not "proper"? HiFi Snob (this is banter btw)

 

[plastic penguin]

Are you saying an Aiwa is not "proper"? HiFi Snob (this is banter btw)

Aiwa were a decent make back in the wee small years (1970s)... although not heard the midi systems, my cousin had a Akai Receiver and Aiwa tape deck.

 

[Macspur]

I admire those of you who can remember model numbers!

In terms of separates, in the early 80's my first set up consisted of a Rotel amp, had a wooden case, lovely big shiney knobs including tone controls, record deck was some kind of Akai, cassette deck was a Sony and speakers were Warfdale

"Life was oh so mellow, Winters were warmer, grass was greener, skies were bluer and smiles were bright!"

Correction! tape deck was a Pioneer with great big piano keys.

Mac

www.realmusicnet.wordpress.com

 

[Blacksabbath25]

its still hifi .... *smile* but bass boost ... that was all we wanted back then more bass

 

[chebby]

Sansui SR222 MkII turntable with Grado F3E+ cartridge.

NAD 3020 amplifier.

Celestion County loudspeakers.

Sennheiser HD414 headphones.

Second-hand (very second-hand even then) Sony ST-88 tuner...

Technics cassette deck. (Can't remember which model.)

 

[plastic penguin]

its still hifi .... *smile* but bass boost ... that was all we wanted back then more bass

Both my JVC and Pioneer amps had a loudness switch/button. That was a good way of boosting the bass, treble and midrange... at low volumes only. Once you got over a certain level they switched off automatically - or you couldn't tell the difference between the loudness on or off.

 

[Electro]

My first HiFi if you can call it that was a Sanyo music centre.

My first separates system was an Amstrad turntable with an IC 2000 amp solarvox speakers.

To be honest the Sanyo sounded better. *biggrin*