For the past 9 years I have two realtors send me real estate listings so I can know what houses are selling for. I get 2 to 4 listings per day and not once have a seen a pair of speakers standing in a single room. What also amazes me is I also have not seen surround sound systems with large screen TV's. A $2 million house with people watch TV and listening to their TV speakers. How cheap can you get. Are people allergic to music? The audiophile community has failed to recruit people to share in this hobby. I can't imagine having people over for dinner without being able to sit down to listen to music and enjoy wine together. I think there is something wrong with our society.
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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@cerrot i remember harmony house on Amsterdam - near Rockefeller U and Sloan Kettering. I thing they were still open as late as around 1990 or so |
As an infant my mother could not get me to sleep. For months she tried everything. Finally, in desperation she stuck a table radio in the crib. It worked and I have been listening to music almost continuously ever since. I got my own record player on my 4th birthday, a brown Zenith portable with a black Cobra tonearm. It was not long befor I realized that my dad's system sounded A LOT better. Bozak B302As driven by a Stereo 70 with an HH Scott front end and Rec O Kut turntable. The real prize was an Ampex tape deck. By the age of 10 I had managed to collect a soldering iron and all the tools to build an amplifier. I managed to talk my dad into a kit Stereo 70. I suppose you could say that is where the real journey began as far as "high end" systems would be concerned. I think I was born an audiophile, a genetic mishap. |
Correct me if I am wrong but it appears that a majority of us Forum dwellers are about the same age. My Freshman year in college was 1971. Boomers! As a Voice Performance major in the conservatory I had to have my first serious system. Anyone remember Pacific Stereo? I was so proud of my $199 PS special. We would put on Classical albums and everyone at parties would play “name that composer”. And my pianist, perfect pitch roommate would “play” shadow fingers on the ceiling instantaneously to the piano pieces. A cool Niko receiver, a super duper Lenco TT… funny that about a $100 TT would become a sought after restored item. PS had their house brand speaker. The Quadrelfex. It came with the entry level bookshelf. Took several years until I started the never ending upgrades. My first was a very great pair of Klipsch Heresys. |
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