@jond The Planet, B-60 and DT speakers sounds like a great first system!
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.
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Thanks @zavato if only I hadn't started reading about tubes in audio mags! |
Age 4, 1965.. big truck arrived unloaded Bozak, MX-110Z, MC240, Dual 1019 w a Shure and 40’ of brown lamp cord… Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra… hooked…. My parents had no carpet or couch but did they have tunes… I still have the MC gear….listening to the 240 as i write this…..many miles, many years….more smiles… |
I think I had what is probably a common experience: I had been going along using commonplace Sears Roebuck level gear, thinking of hi-fi nuts as weirdos as suggested by Mad Magazine, until I listened to music at the house of a friend who had a decent sound system, which opened up my ears to how much better music can sound. I remember going to those old chain stereo stores and they'd have all the chain stereo store brands with all the switches and the equalizers and the meters, and there'd be a handful of the higher end items that would be a black box and one dial, or something like that. |
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