In Reply to: What are your fondest audiophile memories? posted by mkuller on July 17, 2010 at 10:50:53:
Corner of Smithfield St. and Fourth Ave.
This was sometime in 1974 or 1975; the third Sheffield LP was playing on a Transcriptors Skeleton with a Vestigal arm. The cartridge was some kind of wood-bodied MC, don't know what the amplification was, but the speakers were big Magneplanars that looked like room dividers.
The song "America" came on and it was an epiphany; I had no idea that music could sound like that coming from a stereo.
I've never forgotten that moment and likely never will even when I'm old enough to start crapping my pants.
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