My dad had launched a new graphic design business and supported a new high-end audio shop as one of his first clients. He took gear as payment, according to family legend. A pair of Morell monitors on stands, a sub I can’t remember, a Rotel CD player, a tuner, and a boutique, hand-made amp in a finished wood and acrylic enclosure from a tiny company in Oregon (where we lived). This would have been in the early 1990s. I loved that system so much. It features prominently in many of my strong childhood memories (discovering a certain artist and listening for hours, the magic of an early morning Christmas with the speakers framing the Christmas tree and presents while playing A Winter’s Solstice or George Winston’s December…) that system definitely set me on my audiophile path today.
My dad had launched a new graphic design business and supported a new high-end audio shop as one of his first clients. He took gear as payment, according to family legend. A pair of Morell monitors on stands, a sub I can’t remember, a Rotel CD player, a tuner, and a boutique, hand-made amp in a finished wood and acrylic enclosure from a tiny company in Oregon (where we lived). This would have been in the early 1990s. I loved that system so much. It features prominently in many of my strong childhood memories (discovering a certain artist and listening for hours, the magic of an early morning Christmas with the speakers framing the Christmas tree and presents while playing A Winter’s Solstice or George Winston’s December…) that system definitely set me on my audiophile path today.