Where did you buy your first audio gear?

The Brick home furniture store early 80’s in Edmonton Alberta, a complete AKAI system of turntable, cassette deck, tuner, integrated amp, with Hitachi tower speakers, and some cheap stand, all in for $1100 cdn dollars and no taxes back then added on.

As mentioned, Kelly's Records, A&B Sound, Visions Electronics were the places  here in Alberta to buy records/music and stereo gear, Visions Electronics is the only survivor, but no longer has records, and I bought hundreds when records cost $7 or $8 dollars, onsale for $3.99 in the day. 

1980 from Poor Richards in Daly City/Colma CA.  Marantz 2252 receiver, Dual 604 TT with a Shure cartridge, Akai GXC-570D cassette deck, Cerwin Vega 12TR’s, and a couple months later went back and bought Klipsch LaScalas.  Still using the Dual TT and the LaScalas with ALK extreme slope x-overs now

KLH Model 20 (the one without the tuner)...turntable festooned integrated with great speakers...1970 maybe?

Fun reading , 

Pacific Stereo  on Broadway in Chicago about 1974 , I walked back and forth between Midwest Stereo about a half dozen times listening and then bargaining .

Ended up with Sony 6065 receiver , Dual 1229 TT , Ampex cassette deck and BIC Venturi 6  speakers . 

1974 - Atlantis Sound in NY. Original Large Advents in walnut, Pioneer 939 Receiver (70 watts / side), BIC 940 Turntable w/ a Stanton 681 EEE cartridge w/ the silly little brush attached. 

Sounded pretty good but Blew two tweeters & a woofer playing the system too loud until I bought a second pair of speakers & then the amp would get hot but never failed. Receiver was decent, powerful, good tuner. Turntable was a piece of junk that seemed to be designed well but built poorly, should have gotten a Dual or Thorens. The stacked Advents are of course legendary w/ not the most extended high end but otherwise pretty good, even by today's standards.