Best Of

Continuing with vehicles...

OK, OK. I guess Infinity was better prior to the mid-90s when I did my first home stereo shopping and ended up with one of their worst products. I don't recall if the store I was shopping had any of the higher up models, or if I just didn't have the extra budget for them at the time. Honestly, at that time, I was about the loud party type speaker and didn't really spend time "listening" like I did in later years. I kept those SM-112 until about 2001 and then moved on. Regardless, that experience tainted the brand for me. I might have thought different of Polk if I had landed on some of their cheaper models...nope, wait, most of those even sound pretty decent.

Infinity also introduced some electronics. Their FET preamp:



And a digital amplifier, probably the first for audio use:



Also an air bearing turntable and a separate low mass tonearm (so did Polk) and electrostatic headphones. An innovative company in its heyday.

You know you are getting old when you instantly recognize what this is...



Tom