Old radio with built in record changer that played 78's, age 5-7, in the late 50's. Then a one box record player. Moved up to stereo, with a fold together/fold up to make one box system (moving through 60's & into teens). Late teens,alligator clipped the speaker wires inside that and ran it through a Fender piggyback guitar amp and did Jimi Hendrix. 1975-went to new system after college, and started with Small Advents, and within year, did the trade in special to Large Advents, which lasted until '91 when the foam had gone and I finally finished grad school (2nd try).Dahlquist 901's replaced them with my 1975 HK receiver and Sansui turntable. Uh oh, upgrade bug hits big, - can we say "cd"? Then, Melos pre,Acurus A250, Oh my. 901's lasted several years, until the Paradigm Studio Reference 100's came out, which have remained through the various other upgrades of everything except Melos 111B pre, which for some reason I never get the urge to change. Paradigm Atoms & matching Paradigms for HT, and Atoms for the bedroom (There's that HK receiver). Sold BR Atoms to a friend and just got Sound Dynamics RTS 3's for $139 (new) to replace them.The old radio is still in dad's basement, and my apologies to him for that Fender thing. It was a small house.
