As an infant my mother could not get me to sleep. For months she tried everything.
Finally, in desperation she stuck a table radio in the crib. It worked and I have been listening to music almost continuously ever since. I got my own record player on my 4th birthday, a brown Zenith portable with a black Cobra tonearm. It was not long befor I realized that my dad's system sounded A LOT better. Bozak B302As driven by a Stereo 70 with an HH Scott front end and Rec O Kut turntable. The real prize was an Ampex tape deck. By the age of 10 I had managed to collect a soldering iron and all the tools to build an amplifier. I managed to talk my dad into a kit Stereo 70. I suppose you could say that is where the real journey began as far as "high end" systems would be concerned. I think I was born an audiophile, a genetic mishap.