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parent's system: KLH model fifteen compact, which had Henry Kloss's only fraudulent speaker (it was ported)

College in 1970:
Roommate's Lenco (L75 I think - wish I had that now)
AR4x unfinished, bought at Grand Central Radio for something like $65-70 new
some Sansui or Lafayette receiver

A couple years later, new roommate and I start buying and selling Mac tube gear. We got pretty much everything in the Sunday NY Times, every week, and had a couple Japanese customers who would buy whatever we had, sight unseen. That changed things - we made good money, and were able to try out pretty much anything, so we did. Some of the more memorable gear from that period:

Infinity Servo Statik I panels (Arnie sent us replacement drivers gratis. He was amused that we had them in a dorm room.)
Magneplanar Tympani 1U
AR xa with a jury-rigged Transcriptor's arm
Thorens 150-II/Rabco SL8E
ARC SP3, Dual 76, and EC-4
all the Mac tube amps except the 3500
Mac C20, C22, C26 (C20 was my favorite)
lots of Dynaco - amps, preamps, SCA35, A25
Marantz 2270, some Sansui and Heath receivers
double Advents, then triples
Sony TA-3120F power amps - made magic with the Advents and awful on most else
Ampzilla
Klipsch Heresy, LaScala (it was college - loud was good)
JBL L100's (hated 'em, but fun with the right pop music, like ELO)
Infinity 2000A (another very flawed, sometimes fun speaker)
Rek-O-Kut with Decca arm and cartridge (now we're talking!)
Philips David
Dual 1218, 1219, 1229
some Benjamin Miracord turntable
ADC XLM, Shure V15, Stanton 681EEE. some Ortofon
Braun L300, L710, and the astonishing tri-amped LV-1020
Revox A77, then a Ferrograph
Crown SX724, CX824
some Scully - maybe 280?
QRK turntable
Sennheiser 414, Koss Pro 4-AA, Koss ESP-9

It was great fun, and we did graduate.

WW



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