It would have been 1964, when I was 22, at a long-defunct stereo store in Seattle, WA, called Electricraft. They had a store in the downtown business area, and I remember wandering through there thinking "what incredible audio toys". I don't remember any specific system, but I do remember the Marantz, Fisher, and other electronics; the big JBL, Altec, and Bozak speakers, and the smaller acoustic suspension Advents and KLH's. That summer, while I was working for the Coast & Geodetic Survey -- surveying the spring 1964 earthquake damage in Alaska -- that I bought my first piece of gear: a Fisher 500C receiver.
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the first time you heard a high end system that floored you? For me it was in 1974 at Audio Dimensions in MI .......Quad ESLs driven by a monstrous Audio Research amp.The preamp was an ARC SP3, the turntable was a beautiful Luxman ( I believe) and a cartridge hand delivered by Joe Grado
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