Quick poll How long have you been in this hobby?

1950 built my first amplifier.

1969, when I inherited my grandfather's Arvin table radio:

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~srs/Antiques/Radios/Rtempl.php?pid=24

and listened to Triad Radio every night I could get away with it:

http://pages.ripco.net/~saxmania/triad.html

I was 10 years old, and have loved music and audio ever since.

David

Since 1971.

Pioneer SX-838 receiver, Dual 1229 TT with Shure M95ed cart, JBL L-88's and a Wollensak 4765 cassette deck. Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Yessongs... man, that system rocked!

Today, I'm headphone-centric, with a pair of Sony MDR-R10 headphones (the silly looking big wooden ones that went out of production a few years ago), fed by a Ray Samuels Raptor tubed headphone amp, fed by a Theta Jade transport into a Reimyo DAP-777 dac. Sounds pretty good too.

Early 70's.