Where did you buy your first audio gear?

1980 from Poor Richards in Daly City/Colma CA.  Marantz 2252 receiver, Dual 604 TT with a Shure cartridge, Akai GXC-570D cassette deck, Cerwin Vega 12TR’s, and a couple months later went back and bought Klipsch LaScalas.  Still using the Dual TT and the LaScalas with ALK extreme slope x-overs now

KLH Model 20 (the one without the tuner)...turntable festooned integrated with great speakers...1970 maybe?

Fun reading , 

Pacific Stereo  on Broadway in Chicago about 1974 , I walked back and forth between Midwest Stereo about a half dozen times listening and then bargaining .

Ended up with Sony 6065 receiver , Dual 1229 TT , Ampex cassette deck and BIC Venturi 6  speakers . 

1974 - Atlantis Sound in NY. Original Large Advents in walnut, Pioneer 939 Receiver (70 watts / side), BIC 940 Turntable w/ a Stanton 681 EEE cartridge w/ the silly little brush attached. 

Sounded pretty good but Blew two tweeters & a woofer playing the system too loud until I bought a second pair of speakers & then the amp would get hot but never failed. Receiver was decent, powerful, good tuner. Turntable was a piece of junk that seemed to be designed well but built poorly, should have gotten a Dual or Thorens. The stacked Advents are of course legendary w/ not the most extended high end but otherwise pretty good, even by today's standards. 

My first system (early 1980s; I was ~20 y.o.):

Pioneer Direct Drive Turntable (don’t remember source)

Pickering XSV-4000 Cartridge (Hillcrest High Fidelity, Dallas, TX)

Luxman L-450 Integrated Amp (Thompson Sound, Dallas, TX)

Luxman G-120A Graphic EQ (Thompson Sound)

Nakamichi LX-5 3-head Cassette Deck (Hillcrest High Fidelity)

Realistic Mach One Loudspeakers (Radio Shack)

Lamp Cord for Speaker Wire

Nakamichi and Luxman Factory Interconnects

I worked all summer to save up for the Nak, and dreamed of one day having a big Macintosh amp.

Tommy