OP - great redux of a thread we do every 3 months w slight twists… good on ya, i always learn something…
Similar story, different geography..but close. I spent half days my senior HS year working at Audio Connection in Huron Ohio. Work study because i ran out of AP classes and owner of store rescued me with “ work-study”… Yes paid to skip Skool in a high end audio store. Dream realized. Owner had a full time job elsewhere, so i had run of place. My parents had a high end Bozak / Mac system from my age of five, so no stranger to good sound.
Store carried Thiel, IMF, Shahinian, and JBL raw drivers and Community Light and Sound horns/cabinets for pro / high spl duty. Tables were Technics, and Ariston, SME arms, Grado carts, Audionics of Oregon and Sansui on lower end.
In University i quickly landed a full time job selling audio at Speaker Company in Columbus. They Engineered own line of kits and sold Kef kits as well. They morphed into a 7 showroom ( audio only ) monster Progressive Audio. I helped manage that until returning to school mid eighties. Lines included; Infinity, Acoustat, Quad, Soundlab, Beveridge, ADS, KEF, Wilson, Vandersteen, Similar depth in electronics, etc..
Like you i took and still do, great pleasure in helping people. Servant leadership works.
Jim
Similar story, different geography..but close. I spent half days my senior HS year working at Audio Connection in Huron Ohio. Work study because i ran out of AP classes and owner of store rescued me with “ work-study”… Yes paid to skip Skool in a high end audio store. Dream realized. Owner had a full time job elsewhere, so i had run of place. My parents had a high end Bozak / Mac system from my age of five, so no stranger to good sound.
Store carried Thiel, IMF, Shahinian, and JBL raw drivers and Community Light and Sound horns/cabinets for pro / high spl duty. Tables were Technics, and Ariston, SME arms, Grado carts, Audionics of Oregon and Sansui on lower end.
In University i quickly landed a full time job selling audio at Speaker Company in Columbus. They Engineered own line of kits and sold Kef kits as well. They morphed into a 7 showroom ( audio only ) monster Progressive Audio. I helped manage that until returning to school mid eighties. Lines included; Infinity, Acoustat, Quad, Soundlab, Beveridge, ADS, KEF, Wilson, Vandersteen, Similar depth in electronics, etc..
Like you i took and still do, great pleasure in helping people. Servant leadership works.
Jim