How long ago did you catch the bug?

I can't recall a time when I wasn't enthralled by sound as much as the music itself. My first foray into mods was adding external speaker to my clock radio in around sixth grade. We were first in neighborhood with one of those large console combo tv, turntable, radio, big old Magnavox with 15" woofers. There was Lafayette audio outlet near home, drooled over all that 'exotica'. My first exposure to real high end was my best friend's Dynaco quad set up with Linn tt in mid 70's, many a stoner night with that setup! Took me many years to build a system to equal my aural memory of that system.

@russ69 I too remember throwing records as frisbees, yes I was a dope.

Just got drivers license, 1965, drove my dad to pick up our new Fisher 500C, Dual 1019 (which I still have), and AR 2ax... hooked since

Birth. What can I say? Mom & dad played records from before I was cognizant.

Birth, I was raised around a dancing mother that played a mean mouth harp and a father that had JBL C45 Metregons, Mac, Marantz Garrard and Thoren gear.

BIRTH!! 1954 By 1960 I had a pretty good grasp that electricity would fry your little grape to BBs if you weren’t careful.. Smoke coming out of my young dumb ears..
Madrid Spain 1960 I got fried.. Never forget that one.. Exposed nob an tube, no insulation on the wires, they ran under every inside door way. I didn’t know.. I hate getting bit..

Around 1965, Dad had a Bogan tube mono amp, a 45 player, and a really large (3X3X5 feet) coaxial speaker enclosure he made. Pretty much state of the art in the early sixties. It didn’t have a speaker grill at first so the cat would just walk in the large open port and sleep inside. If you cranked up the amp the cat would come shooting out at full speed. He also had a box set of 45s from the show "Guys and Dolls". We later used them as Frisbees. Darn kids.

I think as soon as I got to college in 1970. I already had a long history of loving music… but hearing better systems, at first in dorm rooms, then off campus… that was it, a life long passion formed.