Where did you buy your first audio gear?

when i was in my first year of college in 1969 i bought an AR turntable, Sherwood receiver and KLH speakers from Len Tweten of Magnolia HiFi when it was in a house in the Magnolia neighborhood (where it got it’s name) of Seattle.

i did buy a used Wollensak stereo tape deck from a newspaper ad (remember those?) 2 years prior when i was in High School.

My first good gear was purchased from Jim Geiger's The Listening Post, Tempe, AZ around 1980.

Jim had great ears and a great room. One purchase was a pair of Magneplanar Tympani 1D speakers.

In 1975, at age 15, mail ordered from a company in San Luis Obispo a Pioneer SX-737 receiver, a BIC 960 TT, and Electro-Voice 3-way speakers. Spent all the money I made working that summer. Think the total including shipping was under $700.

Kept that system until age 22. 

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Audiocom in Old Greenwich, CT. 1976-78. AGI 511, Hafler 101 preamps, GAS Son of Ampzilla, Infinity Monitors 1A, DCM Time Windows, Ariston RDIIS TT/SME3009/JH Formula 4/KMAL arms/GAS Sleeping Beauty mc cartridge, Mitsubishi DA-F10 tuner.