Where did you buy your first audio gear?

* Tech Hi-Fi, Rt.22 Springfield, NJ.

A Nikko Receiver, Technics Turntable, Ohm Speakers

Tech Hi-Fi’s Catalogs were as good as Playboy ! 😂

* Drucker’s - Newark, NJ (Who Could Forget Their Sunday Ads !)

Teac Casette Deck, ADC Sound Shaper EQ

* Crazy Eddie’s - Rt.22 Union, NJ

Discwasher Record Care Kit (w/Zerostat)

Still have the Turntable & Record Care Kit 👍

Images Sight and Sound Harbour Mall Fall River Mass.

Sansui RZ9500 (Stereo5 may know this place) 1990

Leiser Super Store Seekonk Mass Advent Maestro 3 way speakers. 1990

Tweeter Audio store I got one of the better Sony CD players at the time. Don’t remember the model #. 1990

Technics SL1200 MKII from a DJ friend in 1990

Still in use in system #2

Still own and use in Sansui and Advent’s in my garage as a third system.

Recapped and transistors replaced in Sansui.

Rebuilt XO with film and foil and new woofer foam surrounds and the Advent’s still sing!

I purchased a pair of Sennheiser headphones from Listenup (the original store in Denver) about 45 years ago. Soon after that, I got my first turntable from them.

Summer of 1973:  Tech Hi-Fi Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sansui 2000X + Phillips 212 TT + Studiocraft bookshelf speakers. Several months later, replaced the Studiocraft speakers with a pair of Ohm C. Still have the Sansui.  

First system in 1973 - I was 16 years old and drove from PA to East Orange NJ to some "wholesale" audio warehouse.  I found it through an ad in Stereo Review.  I had a pocket full of cash and this place was in a pretty bad section of town.  I parked on the street and ran to the front door (the door was "armored", and all the windows had bars).  Nothing was on display; you just told the guy behind the counter what you wanted, and he went into a back room and brought out the boxes. I bought a Sansui 881 receiver and a Technics turntable.        

For speakers, my brother and I went to the electronics store in our hometown.  It was set up like an auto parts store, with a couple of clerks standing behind a counter, and all the parts on shelves behind them.  One of the clerks helped us pick out woofers, tweeters, midrange drivers, and crossovers for a three-way speaker.  We then stopped at the lumber yard and picked up the wood to build the boxes, which we stuffed with extra insulation from the attic.  The speakers probably sucked, but boy were they loud!