1979, as a college freshman, at tech hifi in providence r-i, first hanging out, became a go-fer, then worked there part time on big sale days, then became a regular inventory clerk and sales person on fridays and holidays weekends through the balance of my undergrad engineering years
dual, technics, thorens turntables, micro acoustics, stanton, pickering, sonus carts, ohm advent and jbl speakers, harmon kardon, pioneer, sherwood receivers, higher end was sae and nikko phase linear separates, micro seiki tt’s (still have my dd40 w ma505!! )... discwasher record cleaners with the red fluid bottle in the wood handle, early akg and sennheiser 414 h-p’s with bright yellow earpads... jackson browne, michael henderson, commodores, chic, jazz crusaders, stanley clarke, earl klugh, chick corea ... fun times...