As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This?

My older brother after his freshman year in college(1977) came back for the summer with a B & O Beogram 4002 table, Yamaha receiver(don't remember the model), and a pair of large Tannoy Era Monitors with classic 12" dual concentric drivers and a ceramic Elephant shaped Bong.  If you placed one speaker on top of the other, it was the size of a refrigerator.  After a summer of that system(I was a high school freshman), I was hooked on audio.

No particular piece of gear. I only noticed that some gear just sounded better than others.

In audio stores I used to hang out with friends (with the same interests) at various audio stores. Impressed with everything from Klipsch to Maggies to, well nearly everything. Being poor, I started with a raw speaker and tiny mono tube amp from a junk pile sale at Lafayette ($5 each… ha!). Soon I “upgraded” the raw speaker by soldering a cap to a found “tweeter” (woo-hoo!”)

My first “real” system was a Kenwood integrated amp, a tiny pair of Advent speakers and a Dual TT with a Shure M91ED cart… from there it was off to the races!

I've a relatively detailed history in my Virtual System. 

But before I ever got into all this, a transistor under the covers listening to Radio Luxembourg was where I discovered music. My parents refused to entertain a record player, so I hung at friend's homes and played their records. Penny on the headshell.

My Dad had a Sansui BA and CA 2000 when I was young.    When I was 15 I took all of my paper route money and bought a really nice used Sansui AU9900.    

My parents Columbia / capital console. I used to crank that baby up when they were gone.