Where did you buy your first audio gear?


I bought my first audio gear in a Post Exchange PX store in Baumholder Germany. I was a young soldier about 20 yrs old and bought a SAE amp and Preamp, Bose 901 speakers, Sony CDP-101 CD player and a Thorens TD 320 turntable. Where did you buy your first audio gear? What did you get?

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Lafayette Electronics, Norristown, PA. Integrated amp, Criterion 50 speakers, Garrard turntable w/Pickering cart. ca. 1968.

Another old guy here. Lafayette Radio Electronics (my first job) in Lancaster, PA then Tech Hifi in New Brunswick NJ my second.

Army - Airforce audio video club in Germany in 1992 (? or there about).  Adcom GFA 545ii, GFP 555ii, a Nakamichi CD player, and B&W DM640 speakers.  Nakimichi is toast, but still have the rest, and it still sounds pretty good.  My divorce present replacing the rack mount kenwood system the ex kept.

Luskin's High Fidelity in North Miami Beach in 1975. A Scott R74S Receiver, pair of Altec 793C speakers, Kenwood turntable (later upgraded to a Garrard Zero-100).

Audio Consultants, Evanston IL, 1970s. Simon (the owner) retired in 2019, and closed up shop. Helluva run (opened in 1967!), and it was a terrific store.