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HI-FI Upgrade Timeline
 

 

Main components

Turntable
CD Player

 

Amplifier
&
preamplifier

 


Speakers

1970's
Integrated
family
music centers
various brands
 

 

Wharfedale
Laser 80

1980's
BSR Turntable
taken from
integrated family
music center
 

 


Toshiba Aurex
micro system

 


Marantz LD300

Early
1990's
Technics
SL-1200MK2
X2
 

 


 


Mid
1990's
Rega Planar 3
Marantz CD52SE  

 


Mission Cyrus one

 


Castle Tay
with
Atacama stands

Late
1990's
Linn Lp12
Valhalla
 

 


Naim Nait 3
integrated amplifer 

 
2000's
Musical Fidelity
A3 24 bit

 

Musical Fidelity
A3CR power
&
preamplifier 

 

MartinLogan
Scenario
hybrid electrostatic
speakers

2012
Musical Fidelity
A3 24 bit
Internaly upgraded 


Musical Fidelity
A3CR
power amplifier
&
preamplifier
Internaly upgraded 

 
2015
AMG Viella V12
 


Musical Fidelity
M8 500s
power amplifier
&
M8PRE
preamplifier 

 
Mid
2020
 


Musical Fidelity
M8s 700m
monobloc
power amplifier
x2  

 
Late
2020
 


Sanders Sound Systems
Magtech
Monoblock
power amplifier
x2
& Preamplifer 



MartinLogan
Impression ES11a
hybrid electrostatic
speakers

Late
2023
 


Audio Hungary P200 Amplifier & C200 Preamplifier



 

Turntable cartridges, additional components, interconnects & cables

Turntable
cartridge
Component

 


Interconnect

 


Speaker cable
&
mains cable

1990's
 

 


 


Cable Talk 3.1
speaker cable

2000's
Dynavector 10x5
 

 


 


Chord Legend
speaker cable

2015
 Cartridgeman MusicMaker Mk III
Whest Audio
WhestThree
Signature
phono stage

 

Audioquest
Red River
XLR interconnects

 

 

2015
 AMG Teatro
 

 

 

 

 

2016
Whest Audio
PS.40RDT SE
phono stage 

 

Cambridge Audio
300 series
XLR interconnects

 

 

2018
 

 

 

 

Russ Andrews
PowerKord-300
& W350 EVO Gold
+SC mains cables

2019
Russ Andrews
BMU3000 MKII 

 


 


Kimber 12TC
speaker cable

2020
 

 

Kimber
Select KS-1116
interconnects

 

 

2023
Gyger II stylus
 

 


 

 

2024
 

 

Townshend
F1 Fractal
balanced XLR interconnect cable

 

Townshend
DCT Isolda
speaker cable

Robin Francis
© Michael Valentine Studio
November - April 2024

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