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Your first system and your journey...

Since we are on a audiophile (or is that audio-pile) site many, if not most, have had some decent systems.  I would enjoy in hearing from all/any about what your first system was made up of.  Mine was a Dynaco, I think something like a 35, tube integrated with some small British two way speakers and a BSR McDonald turntable with something like a 44E Shure cartridge , ...and yes, lamp cord for wires and whatever came on the turntable.  It is almost sad to say I have spent much more on some interconnects than that first system cost. 
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jond
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I started late besides a boombox I had in HS/college my first real system was a Bryston B-60 and Rega Planet embarrassingly driving, briefly, a pair of white van speakers. Yes I was one of those suckers! :)
edcyn
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Audiophilia. A disease tough to shake.
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noromance
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A little off topic. I worked for a summer in high school to get enough to buy a new 501 frame racing bike. I had it 2 days when trash from across the tracks stole it from the yard. I never took for granted how hard it is to save for something again. Now I protect what I have by exercising my Second Amendment rights!
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tuberist
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Zenith with a suitcase design, speakers detached and the case opened up into a turntable...played the crap out of it. I still remember "Whole Lotta Love" blasting from it.
edcyn
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noromance -- you still bicycle? Several accidents and old age now limit my bicycling but I'm still as much a bicycle enthusiast as audiophile. Are Colnago and Campy as cool as Koetsu?
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