Roots, a question for younger audiophiles, how did you start your journey?

Bowers/Wilkins Cdm-NT series speakers and NAD integrated amp. MIT cables. Pioneer Elite CD/DVD player. Early years of this century

upgrading my rogue Sphinx V2 to v3 this week. I have some NOS mullards ready to go. sent the technics 1200 to KAB for upgrades and put a Hana SH on it..Getting rid of old JBLs that have frequency separation issues and acquiring some wharfdale85lintons. 
 

I think/Hope when everything’s set in a few weeks I’ll have my “true start” 

Started with Klipsch pro media in college.  Given to me by my girlfriend.  Now my wife.  One of the if not the most significant event of my audiophile hobby. 

Mid ‘10s: purchased Clearaudio Concept w/Maestro v2 cartridge. Knew nothing about audio at the time.

Ignorantly made vast improvement to source when I could’ve just gone to thrift store and found a good, working, vintage receiver for an infinitesimal fraction of the cost. Thus, a roller coaster of cartridge/tonearm-alignment-education, and multiple pursuits of improved front end and downstream pieces commenced.