Do you rember your first?

My first system was a marantz 1060 preamp with a marantz
model 110 tuner and a pair of corral speakers. I was living
in Fraser Co. at the time.
In 1969 I took 2 friends and we built an A frame house
on some property our family had. It was 2&1/2 years before
I got electricity, in that time I had a lear jet 8 track
that I powered with a car battery. I allways new when it needed to be recharged because the music would get slower and slower.
When I finally got power,The very next day I went down to denver and bought the marantz system. My hair was long , wearing cowboy boots,and
a leather cowboy hat. The salesman put on the Birds song
I'm going to catch that horse if I can ( chestnut Mare?)
The sale took less then 5 minutes.
Igot back into my 56 willy's pickup, didn't even stop for lunch, drove home and hooked it up.
IT WAS AWESOME , next to marrying my wife, it was the happiest day of my life

I forgot to mention, I still have that system except for the speakers.

Yes, I remember very well. The year was 1958. A music store in my home town had an audio department featuring classic high-end brands like McIntosh, Fisher, Scott, and JBL speakers. They even had the legendary JBL Hartsfield corner horns! The salesman put on a London/Decca recording of the Dvorak 8th. Symphony. I was totally blown-away, especially by the clarity of the brass. It was like a 3-D photo. I've been hooked ever since, much to the chagrin of two sucessive wives!

My Dad bought an old Philco "AV system" in the late 50s, with an inoperative mono phono preamp, so I used to get one of my mom's fine sewing needles and taped it to the apex of a rolled up paper cone "speaker" and played 45s on it! By my teens I had migrated toward ham radio, listening to the world through a single-ended tube stage and a naked 5" full-range. Quite intoxicating. A few years later I made a horrible-sounding Heathkit ss receiver, and then designed a unidirectional speaker using a Utah (remember?) 3-way co-axial driver firing into a plaster-filled kitchen funnel, all mounted atop of 90lb clay sewer pipe wrapped in a brown Naugahyde sock. Lots of bass (but not quite approaching the huge pipe organs I played in various churches), but I never really understood that I had forgone the sweetness of the single-tube midrange short-wave setup! Then I discovered the opposite sex, and thirty years disappeared. Yet after two marriages and daughters I rediscovered speaker design a decade ago, along with NAD and Rotel, but gave it all up after running into you A'goners, assembling my ref system as it sits now. Thanks!

Yes she was the best !