cafe67 3,905 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 https://www.stereophile.com/content/stereophiles-products-1994 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kab Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Loitering in the streets of London & Istanbul. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
metal beat 19,289 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) In LA seeing Lallopalooza in a limo after I won a "Sounds" contest on channel 7 - first and only tv contest I have entered. we declined to meet Green Day as we couldn't be bothered as another band was about to start - lol. did not think they would still be around 25 years later. Damn awesome. List of Lollapalooza lineups by year - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Edited November 18, 2019 by metal beat 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H.E. Pennypacker 1,177 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I googled and it And it was a Thursday. I would have been in the last few weeks of year 9 before school holidays... so a 99% chance is was at school. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rantan 9,858 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I was working at Grenfell Hi Fi in Adelaide CBD selling all kinds of gear like Duntech, ME, Sonique, Classe etc. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jakeyb77 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Last year of High School, was a bloody great year. Would go back to that time in an instant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jt301 485 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I was living on the Gold Coast with no interest in hifi. It was milestone year in a few ways. It was the year I moved out of home. It was the year I completed my university degree after studying part time and working full time. I also became an uncle for the first time. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Luc 10,144 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Building the house I'm in, fishing, shagging,drinking,reading,listening to music. Pretty much what I'm still doing. and if you went back to 84 it would be the same minus the house and if you went back to 74 it would be the same. 64 it would of been building meccano and listening to parents music, drinking milk and reading Dr Seuss. God what a boring life eh. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jakeyb77 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Luc said: Building the house I'm in, fishing, shagging,drinking,reading,listening to music. Pretty much what I'm still doing. and if you went back to 84 it would be the same minus the house and if you went back to 74 it would be the same. 64 it would of been building meccano and listening to parents music, drinking milk and reading Dr Seuss. God what a boring life eh. Good to hear the little blue tablets are working 😉 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Telecine 3,906 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I like this emblematic of the times line: 1994 Component of the Year: As the votes trickled in on my fax machine........... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
a_zee 117 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Those were the days! I wasn't even born yet 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kab Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 18 minutes ago, jakeyb77 said: Last year of High School, was a bloody great year. Would go back to that time in an instant. Every school i ever ''attended'' has been demolished hmmm i wonder why? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Syrot 133 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 29 minutes ago, metal beat said: In LA seeing Lallopalooza in a limo after I won a "Sounds" contest on channel 7 - first and only tv contest I have entered. we declined to meet Green Day as we couldn't be bothered as another band was about to start - lol. did not think they would still be around 25 years later. Damn awesome. In LA as well, on a 6 week training course for work, had enough of LA within week 2... . Was thinking of going to the Lallopalooza that was at Cal State just to see the Beastie Boys, but tickets were sold out 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jakeyb77 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 10 minutes ago, kab said: Every school i ever ''attended'' has been demolished hmmm i wonder why? I got advised that “the last two years are not compulsory” and I have never received an invite to any reunions lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kab Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 1 minute ago, jakeyb77 said: I got advised that “the last two years are not compulsory” and I have never received an invite to any reunions lol My ex classmates are in jail dead or MIA. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pine weasel 978 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 45 minutes ago, rantan said: I was working at Grenfell Hi Fi in Adelaide CBD selling all kinds of gear like Duntech, ME, Sonique, Classe etc. In 1994 , I was buying Sonique, Micrex and Meridian from Grenfell HiFi !! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moderators betty boop 15,742 Posted November 18, 2019 Moderators Share Posted November 18, 2019 1994 ? getting right into the hifi thing... stuff like CD transports and dacs were all the range ... was enjoying a esoteric spinner feeding a valve dac.... still have the valve dac switch it on now and then to reminisce most of everything else from that era is long gone... though still have an audio alchemy headphone amp also from that time 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mrbuzzardstubble 24,058 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Liberia 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cafe67 3,905 Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Lol great responses from people. i think 94 I was working in Claremont , pretty sure my system was Rega planar 3, Sony x77es cdplayer, nakamichi ca5/pa7 (s/h) and dynimage speakers. All from either frank prowse, Vince Ross and simply hifi would have been 27 at the time 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moderators betty boop 15,742 Posted November 18, 2019 Moderators Share Posted November 18, 2019 12 minutes ago, cafe67 said: i think 94 I was working in Claremont , pretty sure my system was Rega planar 3, sadly by then I was well and truly under the mis apprehension that vinyl was dead...would be another 5 years before I rediscovered vinyl via a rega p25 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Muon N' Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) I think Byron Bay, starting the self discovery thing. Or was that 95? Edit: nup, had started, the reboot. Edited November 18, 2019 by Muon N' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mendes 3,886 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 First trip to Hawaii 🏄🏻♂️🏄🏻♂️🏄🏻♂️..........got me hooked and back every year since...........🏝🏝🌺🌺🏄🏻♂️🏄🏻♂️ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
expat 164 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Sunderland in NE England. A place accurately described to me as the boil in the armpit of the world. So bad, left the UK at the end of the year and never went back except to visit family. HiFi wise, very UK flat earth with LP12/Ekos/Asaka Naim 42.5/HiCap/110 and Linn Kans. Bought a Sony Discman to experiment with and to travel with. Still got the LP12. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
needlerunner 2,227 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 3 hours ago, cafe67 said: https://www.stereophile.com/content/stereophiles-products-1994 1994. Ha, l cant even remember where l was last week😀 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
needlerunner 2,227 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Luc said: Building the house I'm in, fishing, shagging,drinking,reading,listening to music. Pretty much what I'm still doing. and if you went back to 84 it would be the same minus the house and if you went back to 74 it would be the same. 64 it would of been building meccano and listening to parents music, drinking milk and reading Dr Seuss. God what a boring life eh. I don't know mate? Childhood sounded crap. But boy, have you made up for it since then. I mean all that fishing! 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
needlerunner 2,227 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 2 hours ago, cafe67 said: Lol great responses from people. i think 94 I was working in Claremont , pretty sure my system was Rega planar 3, Sony x77es cdplayer, nakamichi ca5/pa7 (s/h) and dynimage speakers. All from either frank prowse, Vince Ross and simply hifi would have been 27 at the time Gosh bought my first system from Vince Ross in in 1976. It was a Rotel tt with a Shure cart. A Kenwood Amp, Kenwood cassette player and 2 huge Cerwin Vega tower speakers. Those speakers were great party speakers. But fidelity wise they were pretty crap. But my mates were impressed. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jeromelang 380 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Was dabbling with Alessis recording gears back then when Dunlavy IV came out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
t_mike 8,212 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I was spending a bit of down time with Roger Rogerson. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Batty 5,026 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Living in Brunei, sounds via Rock mk II (same one I have now), Misssion Cyrus 2 and PSX and a pair of DM2 speakers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rowbo 177 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 2nd year of Uni (doing some 1st year subjects again as I enjoyed wine, women and song a bit too much) and was introduced to NAD and a pretty decent Uni student hi fi. ...and that you could enhance your VHS viewing experience by plugging it into said stereo. The Lion King was a watershed moment. (Could've been the joints being toked at the time) but that soundtrack stood out! 😂 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rodders3 502 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Finishing my degree after 5 years and really looking forward to getting into work. 25 years later, I long for those old days . Did manage to work in some dodgy Hobart bottle shop for a bit which allowed me to go to Qantum and get my paws on on Japanese made Yammy receiver and cd player. All this fed to some god awful speakers from Vinnies but it mattered little as long as it was loud! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jakeyb77 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Yes back when the toughest decision I had to make was where to take the ferret for a gallop. Sigh. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
at68 51 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 A bit hazy for sure but about then I was buying from "clay's hifi" at Mermaid Beach Gold Coast... glad to see Clay Gieseler still involved in the industry making DACs... and im still listening... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Uncle Seth 713 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, t_mike said: I was spending a bit of down time with Roger Rogerson. I'll bite. More information, please. Working a public service job, in the newish (since 1992) Teleservice Centre segment. First child on the way. Bought my block of land and required 20%deposit as it was a rural block. Listening to the Sony Home Theatre package (with APM front speakers). Included a 5 disc CD player, and a dual cassette deck. Dreaming of Richter Dragons Edited November 18, 2019 by Uncle Seth Dragons Quote Link to post Share on other sites
08Boss302 1,307 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Finishing Year 12, Hair half way down my back, got my drivers license, no concerns or worries, no health issues, plenty of energy. Find me the DeLorean 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
t_mike 8,212 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Uncle Seth said: I'll bite. More information, please. It's a long story, but no, I don't have a criminal record. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blybo 4,620 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Living in my first home age 23, separated from partner who I bought the house with so had a boarder and 2nd job to pay the mortgage. My old man gave me his Rotel receiver and Interdyn speakers at 20 which I stupidly traded in on a Yamaha Dolby Pro Logic receiver and base model Jamo speakers. Would be another few years till I discovered Trevor Lees shop and the habit truly kicked in. Not sure what year is was but I was in the shop when Trevor had his first demo of a DVD player, a mind blowing moment for all present. A couple of years later I paid around $1400 for a Sony ES player and around the same for a Sony Dolby Digital ES AVR. IIRC there were 7 DVD titles available in Oz when I got it, and 4 of them were bundled with the player. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
giddyup1 102 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 What a trip down memory lane. I was in my 2nd year as an apprentice carpenter. I had bought my first speakers, a pair of Bose 301's for $800 and had nothing to drive them. They sat in a box for months until i saved up enough to buy an amp. Weekly wage was about $200 back then, with not much to show after the weekend 😁 Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day and the Gunners were on constant play............. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grizzly 2,686 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 Third year apprentice, newly married (that went well.....) and a toddler. Music was primarily grunge and industrial with a good dose of techno. Broke as all hell. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RankStranger 3,522 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 Year 11. Probably out by the horse paddock smoking a Port Royal and listening to Jesus and Mary Chain or the Cure on a Discman. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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