When did you get hooked?

Never an audiophiliac but always a musicphiliac. But in 1975 while in High school went to a very small party at a house a friend was watching, Garrard TT, Mac amp & Klipsch rosewoods, with a little mind altering substance. Pink Floyd never sounded so good before. It was then I knew I had to upgrade my Montgomery Wards all in one with the quad 8-track.

Back in '70 or '71, I was visiting a friend who had a Harman Kardon receiver and Utah speakers and I couldn't believe how much better it sounded than my GE 'suitcase' stereo with the fold-down turntable.

He told me about an old used Fisher tube amp (x-101-ST) that he had seen at a repair shop being sold for $60. That was big bucks for me at the time but I scraped the money together and bought it (I still have it). I also bought his dad's Garrard Type A.

Somewhere, I found a pair of 12" coaxial EV Wolverine speakers without cabinets and temporarily mounted them in cardboard boxes. I later scraped up the money for some birch veneer plywood and built cabinets for them from the EV plans.

In the mid 1950s a neighbor had a JBL C34 rear-loaded corner horn, a custom amp with separate power supply he had designed, and a Garrard RC 80 with GE variable reluctance cartridge.  The sound was a revelation to me, and I was hooked.  I added an RCA jack to my Fender guitar amp for an RCA changer -- I think I was a college freshman, but maybe a high school senior.

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