When did you know that music was your passion?

I'll go first. I was 7 or 8 when I realized I was the only one I knew who could and would do NOTHING ELSE but listen to music. It wasn't background noise for me - it was everything while I was listening.

Shortly thereafter I had some records to spin on the parent's console - Wings, Queen, and Air Supply were some of the first. :)

I was 10 when I discovered what "FM" meant on my parents'(who never listened to music) DuMont AM/FM/TV(B&W). That would have been 1958. Shortly after, Brubeck came out with 'Take Five' and I was hooked on Jazz. Four years later: I started playing guitar, DJing, listening to music much more seriously, and people started noticing I could wring the best sound possible out of whatever electronics were present. They never let me stop, so the live music(1st love) and running/repairing/modding Home and Pro audio gear has been central in my life since! Thanks for the memories. I think I'll go spin 'Time Out' now!

Ed Sullivan Show. Feb of 1964

I think I was around 6 when I really found myself (and was teased by others) always in a rocking chair near the radio and it was probably Wings and Fleetwood Mac aswell as other "pop" radio that I got hooked on. Later my step dad by example taught me how to really just sit and listen (imagine that!) and it never stopped, add that to a geekish love of electronics and I was screwed forever!

When I was around 6 or 7 years old I had this fascination with the inner workings of older electronics. I'm 51, to put this in perspective. I would dis-assemble old tube radios and such to see what they were made of. I thought those big old caps where the greatest things. I'd take them apart, and collect the resistors and caps, and I'm drifting.... This lead me to actually listening to the equipment, and trying to figure out how they all work, which eventually lead to listening how the sound was better in some, and worse in others, and why, etc. I found I liked to listen to good sounding gear, which started me down this road. I could never get enough of just listening to the radio.
A friend of mine lived across the street from the park we used to play softball at. He would put his JBL L-100's up in the windows and crank it while we played ball. We all grew up with music playing continuously. Wow, great memories...