your first system-

1990 the year I graduated college. A pair of Def Tech BP10’s, a gorgeous built like a tank Pioneer Elite receiver and a Sony ES 5 CD carousel. Purchased from my first experience with a high end retailer called The Listening Room in Scarsdale, NY.

I still have the BP10’s in my storage room and I gave the Elite receiver and Sony carousel away in 2018 to our movers. I wasn’t using them for years but They both still worked 28 years later.

Heathkit integrated 60wpc amp a Thornes TD165 TT with Audio-Technica cartridge with Dynaco A25 speakers. This was in 1974 I was 18 at the time.

It was 1979, my sophomore year of HS

NAD 3140 integrated amp

Sony PS-X60 w/Shure V15 phono

Nakamichi 480 cassette

Celestion Ditton 15XR spkrs w/factory chrome stands

*updated Celestions with a factory kit to accept the improved tweeters ~ 1982

It was a great bedroom system.

1981? Sony V-fet integrated, Polk Audio 7, Pioneer turntable and Shure cartridge., complete with lamp cord and red and white RCAs. I think the vfet was 125 watts but I blew it up twice anyway.

In 1978:

Sony integrated amp; used circa 1968

Marantz direct drive turntable with AT cartridge (new)

Sony tuner (new)

EPI 110 speakers (used)

I had these components for 5 years before moving up.