Do you rember your first?

In the early 70's while still in college I managed to save enough for my first system: a pair of Large Advent speakers, a Marantz 2245 receiver and a Garrard tt with a Shure V15 cartridge. I still use the Advents for my second sytem with a McIntosh MA 6100 and a Marantz CD-63SE.

Dyna El84 integrated amp, electrovoice bookshelf speakers, dual turntable, empire cartrigde, Lenny playing Rhapsody in Blue

Do I remember???????
Yes I do. I was 18 years old when I went to my bosses apartment for Monday night football and a couple of brews.
I can't remember the circumstances but for some reason we couldn't watch the game (he probably didn't pay his cable bill). He fired up his Sansui receiver, Garrad Turntable and KLH speakers (so big you could bury a horse in). I was hooked. I saved and saved. Four months later I purchased a Marantz 2010 receiver with 10wpc, a Garrard turntable, Pioneer headphones and Avid speakers. Any one remember Avid speakers? Add to this some lamp cord to hook up the speakers and I was in pig heaven. That was my start and I have never looked back.
This was 1972 and I have had many different systems since then, BUT... I still own that 10 watt Marantz which I use daily in my workshop. Although some of the bulbs have burned out in the 25 years of use it has never been in the repair shop. What a war horse.
Thanks for conjuring up some old memories!

The year was 1975. Sansui 9090 receiver, TEAC Cassette deck, Thorens TD-145 with Ortofon cartridge, JBL L-166 speakers and zip cord cabling. Discwasher to clean records. Was a decent system and my sister still uses the Sansui 9090 and Thorens turntable today with no breakdowns ever.

I don't remember any of the componants, but I do remember the music sounding a heck of a lot better than my little radio.
The first thing I bought was a Readers Digest all in one turntable, reciever, cassette. I was hooked. It didn't sound as good as Wayne's system but I had lots of money left over to buy LPs! I still have some of them.