Home Cinema - your first wander in

Big Aura:

I was about 22, a student, and a mate from the wilds of the countryside ask me to pick up a DVD player from Richer Sounds in Dublin.  I demo'd it, on his behalf, and then bought one for myself.  It was a Sony DVP-s330.  I paid IR£350 (including £50 for "a multi-region chip" as I was off to America for a week and I heard DVDs were much cheaper there).  It came with two free films.  I chose As Good As It Gets and My Best Friend's Wedding (as I thought it would impress ladies, and IT DID!).

First film proper that I bought was The Exorcist - Special Edition (in a snazzy box with a book, of some sort).  It cost £28 at HMV on Grafton Street.  Great Player, still works - in a mate's flat now.

6 months later I paired it up with a Pioneer VSA-E03 (only sold about 8 months ago to a German girl on Fleabay, £55), that cost me IR£250 (Richer Sounds) and some Mission 771e Speakers (What Hi-Fi Supertest Winners in the sub-£300 category - still have that magazine) that I was given by a pub landlord who was selling up, two Mission 70s for rears (IR£120, Richer Sounds) and a Mission 70c1 (£100, Harry Moore, Blackrock).  Two months later I bought a Jamo E4 Sub for £240, which I still use.

A good little system. 

Ah Richer Sounds, Dublin the memories.........

About 20 years ago i got a Sony CDP397, Rotel RA-930AX Amp,Tannoy 603 and Cambridge Audio interconnections all from RicherSounds

Dont know if you remember LyricHiFi (On the corner, where Virgin used to be) Got a Rega Planar2 turntable......

Also got a Denon TU260L tuner and Aiwa A410 Cassette Deck.

I still have all these in the attic, im gettin it converted in July and im gonna set up all this gear to hear how it sounds..... a bit of auld nostalgia

About 17 - 18 years ago, I cut up a RCA phono cable and a 3.5mm cable and wired them together using duct tape so I could plug my VCR into my stereo.

Never looked back since

presume Lyric was pre-HiFi Corner?  That morphed into Sony Centre Ireland, I think...

Prof - sounds like a good system!

In '92 I bought a Ferguson/Thompson S-VHS video connected into a Nad amp. I was watching widescreen videos on the Philips Monitor bought for my Amiga 1200. I the got a 29" Toshiba Dolby Surround TV in '93. In '94 I got a Yamaha Pro-logic processor and some GLL Arena surounds and centre speaker.

I have been constantly upgrading and tweaking ever since.

Incidentally the tv and dvd player are still going strong at the mother-in-laws. The video and GLL Arena's are used by the local air cadets as part of there av presentation set up, and my first av amp is temporarily powering a second system.

Wall-mounted Wharfedale Delta 30's, wired under the floorboards to the lounge to my dad's Sansui amp, where the JVC CD player lived......

Yamaha DSP-AX863SE || Mission 771E/77C/70DS || Sony BDP-S550 || SkyHD || Xbox360

First propper thing I got was a pair of SL1200's and a Newmark mixer from Tottenham Ct Rd back when I was15.

First propper TV was a Toshiba 40" rear projector TV and a Pioneer DV701 well before DVD hit the mainstream, think I paid about £700 for the pioneer