Where did you buy your first audio gear?

Team Electronics Menominee Michigan, 1976. Pioneer receiver SX something or other, small one only put out 15 or so watts. Also purchased Pioneer PL512 turntable that I still have.

Lafayette audio receiver ,speakers

then 6 months later, Hifi stereo house in CT  Klipsch heresy , AQ cables ,Luxman integrated  and cassette deck ,B&O tangial  track Turntable late 70s .

My 1st system was a college graduation gift from my parents in 1964. I got super interested in audio due to other students in my dorm. It turned out that my uncle handled books for Dynaco and Dynaco had a close relationship with Acoustic Research at the time. So my uncle got a system for my parents at his price, a PAS 2 kit preamp, Stereo 70 amp kit, AR 2a speakers and an AR turntable, a classic system for that time. I had to buy a pickup and I bought an ADC Point 4E, one of the first ellipticals. I only made one error wiring the kits. The Stereo 70 vibrated so much it walked acros the floor. I turned it off and found the error and everything worked fine.

The year was 1979 and I was a young marine stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I purchased a Pioneer SX-1080 receiver with a pair of Pioneer HPM 100 speakers and a Kenwood cassette deck from the base exchange.

Technics receiver and Koss headphones in 1972 at about 3000 south State St Salt Lake City, Inkley’s Camera Shop, about 3 years later I got a Yamaha Natural Sound CR 820 receiver, Tannoy Cheviots, Technics Direct Drive turntable and ortofon cartridge at Broadway Music downtown Salt Lake City. I got spoiled early on