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Roots, ie: how did your music/sound/audio life/listening begin?

With all the high-end I have had, Magnepan, ARC, Bryston, Conrad Johnson, and many others....my music listening beginning was very humble.  For Christmas when I was about 11, or so, my parents bought me a "higher end" Montgomery Ward table radio and a small "transistor" radio for under my pillow to go to sleep by.  Many "things" throughout the years, but that table radio was the beginning...and it was Rock and Roll.  WLS out of Chicago, KAAY out of Little Rock, KIOA out of Des Moines....and more.  My maturation process began in the Air Force and my discovery of a love for Jazz and female vocals (a tip of the hat to time in New Orleans).  So I believe a Wards radio started my addiction.   It is either odd or crazy for me to have interconnects that cost more than some "systems" I have owned.  Of the other addictions or hobbies/interests I have had, audio has given me the lowest cost per hour and the most shared with family and friends.


whatjd
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millercarbon
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Floating weightless, fascinating lights dancing, bending, sparkling. The most wonderful feeling in the world, beyond words. Literally. 

Until some few years later I heard my dad telling someone how Charlie (he always for some reason called me Charlie) was such a good swimmer because we took him to the pool when he was only a few days old. By this time I was old enough to understand the lights I had seen were the lights above the pool seen as my dad let me float and submerge.  

So that was the beginning, or as far back as I can recall anyway. Soundwise, already said it was the Seattle Symphony violinist in grade school, so no point repeating that one again.
glupson
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I got my first turntable for Christmas when I was 4 years old.
whatjd OP
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glupson   What year and what brand/model turntable was it?  Do you remember what the first record you played on it was.

I am an esoteric jerk, so Jazz and Classical dominate my collection,  but the first recorded "software" I ever had was a 45 rpm record my grandparents bought for me while on a trip to see friends...and it was ..............Tab Hunter......Damn that is hard to admit.

glupson
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whatjd,

The first records I remember were Congratulations by Cliff Richard and Delilah by Tom Jones which were not brand new releases at the time. Come to think of it, I have no idea why my parents, who did not speak English anyway, picked them. I remember a few more, and still own some of them, but I believe that those two were the first.

I will try to find a picture of the "turntable" somewhere, but it was really a record player with a speaker that doubled as a cover. When it would skip, I would put a coin on the needle area and it would not skip anymore. I guess I was a tweaker before I knew anything.
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