Where did you buy your first audio gear?

The first good stereo at UNITED ELECTRONICS in Niles Oh  Kenwood 7400 receiver Janzen Electrostatic Speakers and a Technics SL-1500 turntable , way back in 1975

At about five years old I got my first equipment.  There was s big cupboard  in the basement  filled with mom canning  from the summer. On the top shelf there were two old tube radios. Mom or dad had the step ladder in the basement  for some reason and I worked hard to get it by the cupboard  and opened up. Lol I had to move it away  to get the doors open and reset it up. I climbed the ladder a got one of the radios down plugged it in and it didn't  work went back up the ladder and I brought the bakelight beauty down plugged it in and it worked. Carried up two flights of stairs  to get it to my bedroom set it on a bench I had in my room plugged it in and found a station.  I was in heaven.  That old girl lasted about five or six years I turned it on  every  night and fell asleep  to the radio every night. Sad day when it died. That was the start for me the hard work and the reward I got for my efforts i was a little  boy. 

This looks like it thinking that is very likely  what it was mine was in the ivory   olor though. 

Lafayette audio receiver and speakers came first @1974. My journey into the high end followed shortly thereafter when I purchased an SAE 5000 Noise Reduction Unit "click and pop" eliminator from Transcendental Audio in Jamestown NY.