As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This?

Music and electronics when I was around 8 years old.  1962ish. My dad found out that we could help Salvation Army Thrift take apart big donated furniture stereo tv consoles for $5.00.  Speakers, turntables, AM FM radios, amplifiers.  I experimented and built a lot.  Looking back, woodworking lacked very much. 

Come high school. Frequented our big audio store here.  Drool and dream.  That is where I met a Paragon speaker.  Lafayette Electronics came with Altec and Yamaha.  Of course, their Criterion gear.  Part time work brought me a Kenwood receiver, Criterion speakers, Garrard turntable.

Graduated.  1974 full time job.  Slowly upgrading.  One day I dropped into a small brick mortar tv repair shop and stereo.  I got to know the owner and salespeople. One of the salespeople was into this thing call High End.  Underground.  By appointment only cult.  Yup.  I've been screwed up ever since.

1965-1966. My mother worked as Quality Supervisor at Columbia Records’ Santa Maria CA plant. My dad built a mahogany cabinet to house his HH Scott tube and SS receivers, Lab 80 turntable, powering AR-2ax speakers. In 1966 he traded the ARs for Wharfdale W70C speakers. I’ve been hooked ever since.

In 1979 I took an Audio Physics course (all physics principles taught through the lens of a stereo system). I was hooked. Went out and purchased (my first credit purchase) a 40 Watt Luxman Receiver, a Phillips 777 Turntable with an ATN14 Shibata Stylus (still have the turntable saved for my son’s system), 3D Acoustics Satellites (still sounding great in my HT system with 5 B&W speakers and a sub) with a passive subwoofer which was replaced the next year with a custom subwoofer from Harms Labs (Steve is still building speakers in Old Town Fort Collins), and a Sony cassette deck (wanted a Nakamichi but it was too expensive). Every few years the the systems evolve. Sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much. The hobby has provided over 40 years of enjoyment and sometimes frustration. Love it!

My dad had a Mac 275, Mac pre, Thorens TT and Tanny horns. My Mom worked in a reccord store. You can guess the rest.

Hi! My name is Jerry, and I’m an audiophiliac...

...how many steps are there in this damn program anyway...? ;)

Wayback mechanism just coughed up this....

https://www.thestandalone.com/products/vintage-1960s-scott-radio-supply-inc-company-long-beach-california-receipts

Mid-teens, got the amateur radio/shortwave lurking bug, hung awhile with the ’ham across the street’ (literally), fascinated by his adept use of a ’lightning bug’ morse key for long distance QRLs’ and the occasional voice contacts....

Spent likely too much time at Scotts’ perusing their stock of used shortwave stuff, which led to listening too much to their audio items.....early Infinity, Marantz with the lissajous tuning tube, JBLs, and items of the era. Older bro’ had his HK integrated and Sony R2R, stuffing odd items into his ’56 Chev (...early ’spring delay’ unit that’d give off a loud ’n long "Boiiinnnnngg" when hitting a bump), an auto LP player that worked fine for the first few plays....then began to regroove the disc...8 track cassettes that’d spaghetti after awhile...

Spent hours at PacStereo stores, getting confused with the staff ( "Do you work here?"  No, but what do you want to listen to? *S*); tolerated because I suspect I 'moved product' just f'n around....and didn't ask for %age...

’Got serious’ after I left home ’74~’75ish, moved to the Bay Area to complete the damage I’d already had a serious start at...

The rest isn’t over, mostly hysterical in betwixt....

Next; what's your name and what's wrong with your 'deformative years'?  😏