How long ago did you catch the bug?
My first inkling was about 1972 when a friend mentioned such things as Dual, Thorens, AR, Scott, etc. By '74-'75 I knew about all the Japanese manufacturers (courtesy of a military PX catalog) and about McIntosh. By '76 was using a hand me down all in one Panasonic compact system. The compact system did not last long and very shortly after, '77, came a "proper" 1970's system with such names as Pioneer, Kenwood, Shure, AR, Teac.
Birth, I was raised around a dancing mother that played a mean mouth harp and a father that had JBL C45 Metregons, Mac, Marantz Garrard and Thoren gear. BIRTH!! 1954 By 1960 I had a pretty good grasp that electricity would fry your little grape to BBs if you weren’t careful.. Smoke coming out of my young dumb ears.. |
I can't recall a time when I wasn't enthralled by sound as much as the music itself. My first foray into mods was adding external speaker to my clock radio in around sixth grade. We were first in neighborhood with one of those large console combo tv, turntable, radio, big old Magnavox with 15" woofers. There was Lafayette audio outlet near home, drooled over all that 'exotica'. My first exposure to real high end was my best friend's Dynaco quad set up with Linn tt in mid 70's, many a stoner night with that setup! Took me many years to build a system to equal my aural memory of that system.
@russ69 I too remember throwing records as frisbees, yes I was a dope. |
@jl35 very cool that you still have the 1019!
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