Where did you buy your first audio gear?

1973, I was 19 at Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan, base sterio store.  Bose 901s, Akai cassette player, Sansui receiver, Gerrard Zero 100 turntable, and I finished with an Akai reel to reel with an 8-track in its side.  I was happier than a pig in mud😁

When I went to college after the Marines, i got involved in the sterio escalation wars with my fraternity brothers.  I was the man they were all gunning for.  Went to Pioneer 950, then someone got the 1050, then someone else went 1250, some others went Yamaha; GREAT time to be alive. When my monthly GI Bill check was received, we'd go buy some more pot and listen to music.  I did graduate😂

Tech hi-fi in Bryn Mawr, just outside of Philadelphia. A pair of large advent loudspeakers, a Nikko 7075 receiver, and a Phillips 212 turntable I was 16 years old. 

PX in Nuremberg. 1962. Bought a Thorens TD124 turntable for $72.

Small hifi storefront on Valley Road in South Orange, New Jersey.  Don't remember the name.  Became a pet store a few years later.

I walked past this store every day going to high school.  The window display fascinated me.  I saved up my lunch money for over a year and bought a Fisher 3 piece system with turntable built into the top of a receiver, plus 2 speakers -- midfi at best.  Cost a whopping $300.

Sophomore year at CWRU in Cleveland Heights, OH, 1974: Dynaco SCA80 from a mail order firm in Maryland, I think. An AR-XA turntable and a pair of AR-4xa speakers from Coventry Audio in Cleveland Heights.  Sounded great in my dorm, being fed a steady stream of LPs from Record Revolution, which just closed up shop after 55 yrs!