How old are you?

72

Will be 41 this week.  Audio has been a hobby since my teens.  First concert was STP, rip Scott weiland.

Thanks for this very informative thread....

Merry Christmas to all....

102 soon 103 HELLO!!!!!!

For the past ten years I've wanted to ask this simple question. Greatly appreciate the responses, everyone. I especially enjoyed the stories and insight.

By chance did anyone run the numbers for us to determine the average age of respondents?

Don't worry, I did. We have a sample of 182 data points (pretty good). Outliers are 21 and 88 years of age. Some of the answers were just too cryptic for me to figure out and some didn't answer - which is perfectly okay!

Drum roll, please, on this Christmas Eve Eve...!!!

...61 is the average age from the responses provided so far. Here's the math: 11135/182 = 61.18.

And here's the breakdown by age group:
20-30: 3
30-40: 2
40-50: 15
50-60: 42
60-70: 88
70-80: 27
80-90: 5

I was expecting the average to be a little lower, somewhere around 50. Tallied the numbers a couple of times, but if anyone wants to check, feel free. Curious to see what average you come up with!

Happy Holidays and to a better New Year, Audiogon!

65 in a few weeks. Feel 45 and look 50 at most. Very strict diet for last 30 years and modest exercise with no unhealthy habits. I never want to be a kid again, love being an adult. Inferiority complex and fearful of everything as a child with an average IQ, despite having the best parents and good middle class lifestyle. As an adult, highly accomplished, now comfortable, happy and grateful (despite my despair over our country’s political domination by incompetents and Marxism among younger generations).

60, look 50, feel 30, most days. I did that Teloyears thing last year and my body age was 39!

I’m 65 and have been pursuing better audio gear for about 20 years.Always loved music but didn’t really know what was out there as far as gear until one day I wandered into a local hi-end audio emporium.  I’ve been hooked ever since even though I don’t have a situation where going for the best of the best would be wise. Nowadays I browse audiogon and US audio mart and sometimes spring for a real deal of slightly older gear in mint condition . Really really have enjoyed hi-Rez streaming and all the music it makes available for a reasonably modest subscription fee. 

I’m 67 years old.

58

Graduated from Advent to Adcom GFA555II and Dahlquist DQM9’s in 1986.

Graduated from Adcom and Dahlquist to Conrad Johnson, Pass Labs (Phono preamp), Rega RP10 with Apheta 2 and EgglestonWorks Viginti’s in 2018.

I am not getting old enough fast enough.

68. After I left home to work at 18, some new friends dragged me to a few concerts in late '70 and early '71 before I went to college. The first two were King Crimson (I had never heard of them) and Jethro Tull, who I had seen on TV. Both were magnificent. At college I roomed with electrical engineers one year who introduced me to much better audio equipment than I had encountered until then. They started the rot.

68

First concert, The Beatles, September 13 1964, Baltimore Civic Center.  

69, just to clock in...
Graduated HS in '69, so a  nice symmetry there....*S*

Mental age: Debated, but I'm happy with it.
Intellectual age: Since most seem to have difficulty relating to my posts, I'll count it as a draw...

General apparition:  One with the Mona Lisa stare, but shades of gray.

62... but still act 18 (according to my wife).

Dang, a bunch of old dudes!
54... yeah I’m one! Haha! Still feel (or wish I did) like I did at 20. Good health is a blessing! First “stereo” was a Fisher “integrated” MC-4530 TT and all. Loved that thing.

51 as of yesterday.

I have the humor of a 5 yr old, the maturity of a 12 yr old and a body that says i should be dead.

64, and glad to hear I’m nowhere near the oldest. Grew up near Chicago and would go to concerts all over the area. Most memorable: ‘75 Who with Keith moon; ‘73 Wishbone Ash at the Kinetic Playground; Zappa on Mother’s Day several times at the Auditorium theatre, when they spun a female inflatable doll on the microphone and then were banned from performing there; Yes with Wakeman, twice; having to decide between Zappa and The Moody Blues that were playing on the same night, went to see the Moody’s(much better seats), still picture looking down and watching them perform! And many more..

I had two older sisters that  had a stack of ‘45’s three feet high, they would play loud music and use me as a dance practice dummy. I would ask, What pills mother gives us don’t do anything at all??... and then...LP’s!! I still have a few of theirs I kept.
Then trouble started...A friend worked at Panasonic in Des Plaines, IL., during senior year in HS, 50-70% off, enough said, ...45 years later, my system costs more than my house!! I love playing records I bought in HS, remembering my parents banging on the ceiling “TURN THAT DOWN”!!! 

Great forum idea!! Thanks for listening!

54

68. 

you know what happens if you live long enough...you get old. be grateful, it's a privilege not enjoyed by everyone.
that said, I'm 66.
always loved music and remember spinning my Mom's 45s when I was about 5-6 years old. got my first fold out record player about age 11-12. serious gear started about age 17, which would have been 1972

It's not polite to ask an Audiophile's age. Besides age is nothing but a number.

65, going on 72.  No shame in getting older.  No glory in staying young.

80 years.  I became a budding audiophile in 1956 when I built an Eico HF20 integrated amplifer.  Hooked a cheapo Garrard turntable with GE cartridge to it, and fed it to an Electrovoice 12B loudspeaker that I installed in an Argus bass reflex cabinet.  That got me through my senior year of HS and six years of college.  Went stereo then, and never looked back.

73... And still like large advent speakers.. Pioneer1010 receiver.. McIntosh poweramps

I will be 76 in 3 weeks, had my first stereo system at age 15.

I'm 738 years old (a vampire)

62 trips around the sun as of today! 12/19/1958

Old enough to have seen Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Chicago (with the horns), and remember the new release album Abbey Road. But not old enough for Woodstock. My parents told me I wasn't allowed to go.

762 months old according to my mother, but not for long. Next month, I will be 763, or 443 dog years.

73...As we age our brain continues to process music even if suffering from advanced forms of functional brain diseases.  Altzhiemer's studies show the hearing centers in the brain are the last to go!  So if your ears work you may find, as I have, when your knees, and eyes, and lower back give out, as they will without exception if you live long and whether you prosper or not...  I can still get a platter on the turntable or a disc in the CD or tune-in public radio stations for symphonies, jazz and blues...and make it back to my chair.  Where is that Beefheart album?  Turn it up.

I see. So does your caretaker know approximately when dementia set in?

Old enough to know better than to spend a thousand dollars on an interconnect.

74

When the greek legislator Solon studied in Sais, the Egyptian high priest say to him that the Greek indeed were very young because they know only one worldwide flood in their short history....

Perhaps here many are more youmg than they think....

i am always 69 +few months....I remember no worlwide flood......

😎

Just turned 60 few days a month ago. I have been listening to metal since I was 14... and I still do.

64. A while back, I tried to list all of the audio gear I’ve owned through the years since I was given a Lafayette tube receiver and one Jensen speaker in exchange for some lawn service work. I quit trying after about 3 pages single spaced. Been a fun journey and still is. Love the equipment but love the music the most!
Jim
St. Augustine, Fl

71.  First concert was The Beatles in Cleveland, 1966.  The journey began from there!  

65

66. First concert....Grand Funk Railroad at Boston Garden. 1969?

60.Starting building my own gear while still in high school. Bought my first gear at 18.  (Sansui integrated, Philips turntable)  I have now have the best system I've ever had (ARC, B&W, PS Audio, McIntosh etc.) as I head hopefully quite slowly towards the sunset.

65. I had the pleasure of selling 'hi-end' audio from the late 70s thru the mid 80s and 'stereo' was a hobby even before then. I can still hear fairly well even after selling Klipsch during that time period. Music has been my go-to all these years and still is! :-)))

Three score and ten.
Talking of classes, my wife was in Elton John's class at Pinner High when he was plain young Reg Dwight.  At 15 he was banging away at the piano saying he would be famous.  Just like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney - seems to be pre-ordained for the true greats.

48 but one knee is 30 and the other is 60.  I walk up stairs sideways.

58’ started collecting music & learning about tube equipment from my Dad at age 9. It been a great journey.

I am 54. This is the most fun and relaxing Audiogon forum thread I have read in a while. Congrats for starting this, toro3!  

" Saw Captain Beefheart, Captain Beyond and Ted Nugent all in the same day!"

Holy  crap  captain Jim! I can’t top that! Link to one of my sadly deceased best friends, bands, He was the bassist, and dedicated the song to one of our other friends that had just passed. (the Gasholes - Greenville SC, Tony Smith - Roger Greer. may they both rest in peace
Carolina hardcore ecstacy..... no doubt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SF6zdIx4GY

62 years old. Loving music since 1967!

51 going on 30

Older than I think,therefore I am I think!