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Originally Posted by djcxxx
I had very similar thoughts recently. Guess a lot of us grew up with audio in the 1970s. Our local high end dealer was Audio Art in Richmond, VA. I was a TAS devotee in college when they were “underground” and eschewed advertising. So between TAS and Audio Art I entered the world of ARC and Magnepan. As many of you remember these were the days of Apogee, Acoustat, Quad, and Magnepan Tympani series along with massive tube amps from ARC. There was only vinyl as far as high end was concerned.
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I am really surprised at how similar experiences many of us have had. It was a set of Acoustic 2+2's that I took home that I could not power that set me on a path of massively powerful solid state amps in about 1979. I found TAS then, and I think it was there review of the Threshold ?250?... what ever was the infamous and powerful amp of its time. When current instead of watts became the measure. Pass's first big amp. I took out my first bank loan to buy it. But then I couldn't afford the Acoustat 2+2... ended up with Apogee a while later. Amazing how the same stuff comes up.
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Last edited by George Prentice; 03-14-2021 at 12:29 AM.
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