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How did you contract "Audiophilia"

I remember it well. The year was 1973 the place was Austin Texas. I was stationed at Bergstrom Air Force Base and befriended a guy in my squadron who had just returned from a tour in Japan. He invited me over to listen to music at his house. He played a lot of good records. The Rascals, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, etc. Then he put on Dark Side of the Moon and turned up the volume to what at first seemed like ridiculous levels. But, as I listened, the music pulled me in. I heard details in that album I had never experienced in recorded music before. The record took me on a journey. When the silence at the end of the second side brought me out of my dream, I was hooked. His simple system consisted of a turntable (I can't remember the brand), connected to a Phase Linear amplifier and driving a pair of JBL Athena 99 loudspeakers. I've never been totally satisfied when my playback equipment since then, always searching for better sound. What was your first foray into hifi?
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I'm an Air Force guy too!

But way before that, back in the early 70's when I was in high school, my Uncle Joe was a college professor who lived 200 miles north of us. I'd look forward to visiting all of my cousins and being able to go into his study ( the precursor to the man cave ) and listen to his album collection, especially "Demons and Wizards" and "Survival".

He had an AR turntable, a tubed receiver and Empire marble topped speakers. I had played in the grade school and high school bands, basically being around music all of my life since my mother played the piano. But from the first time I heard "The House of the Rising Sun" on the radio in the middle 60's, I've been a rocker.

When I went to college in the early 70's, Marantz, Sansui, Pioneer, AR, Advent, ESS Heil Motion Transformers and EPI were the big names in the stereo stores around campus.

I worked extra, and have had nice systems ever since.
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