He fellas, a little late but, had to add this. Circa 1971, my first love was a Muntz(remember them?)4&8 track car stereo with a car battery i stole from a car note being used and a pair of funky plastic craig??? speakers. Accidenty hooked both ground wires to the deck and finally found out what BALANCE meant. Then i moved to discrete quad 8trk decks, what fun. Then, i bought an am/fm 8trk unit, i think it was Electrophonic and two funky speakers for $85 bucks, then added a BSR/Mcdonald record player with a pickering ceramic cartridge, years later i found out the damage i did to some original Blue Note albums that'er now priceless! My, have i grown since then, i have so many toys, too much to list. Thanks for the opportunity to share how i got this disease, or is it ease?