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

My dad’s HH Scott 222C, a Garrad turntable playing mom’s favorite Tom Jones album through a pair of 15 inch single driver Altec’s mounted in furniture grade cabinets.  Didn’t drive my Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath albums very well, so I went NAD solid state when I had enough cash to buy my own rig after college. Very harsh and grainy, but it would get loud! 

I’m back to tubes, Klipsch and male/female vocals.  What goes around comes around.  

Defining moment was listening to a Sheffield track record on a system with Klipschorn speakers and McIntosh tube amps at an audio store around the age of 15.  

I know better now, and I know that this will generate some snickers, but it was the first time I viewed and heard a pair of Bose 901's. The father of a girlfriend had a sweet system and those 901's just sounded awesome to my 15yo ears. This started my journey. I NEEDED a system of my own, no matter how humble. 

Saved up what I could as a bus-boy and walked down the three blocks to my local Radio Shack. I had to make three trips, speakers, receiver and turntable. It was mine and I was proud of it. For Christmas the same year my dad bought me a pair of AKG K240's. I swear I levitated while reclining on my twin bed, listening to Led Zep though those cans. (no mind altering aides were involved). 

when i was young and stupid(er) i ran nice speakers with crappy mass market receivers. at some point i started wising up and got a nad 3155 integrated--not a great piece by today's standards, but much better than the junk i'd used previously. it was something of a gateway drug.

Is it possible to edit the thread title?  There is plenty of gear that I owned in my much younger days that would make me puque if I had to listen to today