How old are you?

67, and after having moved this year, definitely "no spring chicken"...

I think I'm the third oldest.   Because if you don't remember transistor radios, duck-and-cover drills, Pinkie Lee, and late-night test patterns, how can you be trusted on sound quality?

I frequent this board this board to help myself feel young!  

60!

Young enough to kick any of your butts, haha! (well, maybe except for those dudes in their 30’s). Never used a slide rule, but have actually seen, used, and changed the ribbon (was that what they were called?, I forget....) on a manual typewriter......

"As old as my eyes and a little older than my teeth..." 
Miracle on 34th Street.
Merry Christmas!

     I just happen to be as old as dirt.

Tim

I'm on my way to 67, and learning that aging is not for the meek...

33 years old.  Freshman audiophile.

72

44.

tom8999, I was at Bull Island too. What a festival. I'm 66.

Physically 57, soon to be 58, mentally my wife swears that at times I'm no more than 2 or 3   :  )

Just turned 43 over Thanksgiving weekend.  Always had a infatuation with electronics - Having a sweet Home Theater set up was my dream growing up, best stereo set up I ever had was in my Toyota Corolla in college - think the gear cost more than the car. I’ve slid down the rabbit hole into 2 channel about 2 years ago.... 3 sets of Towers later, 2 amps and 2 different streaming rigs / DAC’s later still on that journey to find Audio Nirvana.  No shortage of ways to spend money in this hobby!

I was going to say old enough to know better, but still too young to care, but I’ll be more specific and say 46.

Old enough to know better.

I was 19 when I went into the Army in1968. By then I was a dedicated music fan but had never heard the term audiophile. 

Oh the days when, in my humble 100,000 size town had dealers for Magnaplaner, Quattre, Ampzilla, Carver, Audio Research, Classe, B&W, Rotel to name a few.  Then there was a 20 year time lapse.  Now i am a Rennaissance(sp) Man with a new setup at 64.

58. 
First concert was Jethro Tull - I recall being significantly disappointed with my 2nd concert. 

41 and I knew there were a ton of old fogies on this board ;)

Thats great im older than you.

Half way to 164 and still trying to find that perfect audio setup.

I am 63 and have been into the hobby for 50 plus years...I am also happy to report that my 3 year old daughter love music too! Go figure, I guess the apple and tree thing is alive and well at our house!

71 - Been into this hobby since I was 22. I stopped searching for the holy grail of audio years ago. It's still about the sound but it's more about the music. 

Mid 50’s

Old enough to have heard the Stones live in Hyde Park in '69, listened to the Beatles at night with my transistor radio before the first Sullivan broadcast, was shocked by the announcement of Kennedy's assassination in my school classroom, practiced duck and cover at school in preparation for a nuclear attack.  What ever happened to the flying cars and personal jet packs we were supposed to have by now?

I was 35 years old in 1990 when I bought my brand new pair of Klipschorns for $2800.00. I can still remember opening those boxes up and getting blasted with that smell of just being finished. 

59. Got the bug in 80. Started with a Fisher stack. In 84 upgraded to HK integrated with Infinity Kappa 7s.  Got back in in 2018 and I’ve had three sets of gear since. Now have Hegel H390 and Focal Aria 936s. Happy camper here.

Looking through these responses,(age wise) is very reminiscent of the 2019 Robin Trower concert. Which by the way was awesome. I am 54, and I think I was the youngest one there.

Older than I used to be, younger than I’m gonna be.

60

((( 51 )))

78 June 4, 1942

57 : )

I’m 65, and getting into higher end equipment only this year.  My first stereo that wasn’t junk was a Pioneer SX626 I got at 16, then a pair of Radio Shack Realistic Nova 7 speakers, and a cheap Garrard TT.  Then got large Advents and a Sony reel to reel.  It seemed good at the time.

Just turned 51 yesterday. Been an Audio Nut since I was 13 !

In my fifties.

72. And I have tinnitus. May explain why I prefer JBL speakers. 😊

I was eighteen eighteen years ago. 

Yikes, guess I'm Grandpa here-78 years old! Been a Mac fan since 1978, and still enjoying life and Music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

61

Yah, as I thought... average here is 50-60 years old... the age when it’s ok to spend tons of money for nice sounding gear :)

Lovers of parties,
Lovers of fun,
We are the Class of 81!

So, 57.

Got my first system, an all-in-one unit from Sears with an 8-track player, in 1978. Built my second system myself from parts at Radio Shack and plans I found in books at school. This led to studying electrical engineering in college. After trying a number commercial systems over many years, I am back into building my own tube-based amplifiers to use with commercial sources. Love DIY!

Double nickel and a dime. Tunes cranked now and for most of it. 
Time takes its toll; have exact change. 

60+7
(Do we get to erase this whole year......?)

Is it a stretch to say Hi-Fi enthusiasts helped advance the quality of live music?

Mid-60's here. Started with my brother's hand me down system of AR speakers a Dynaco SCA 35 and Dual TT. Moved on to Kenwood and Large Advents and on from there... Lots of pop's hand me downs. I still have his Nak 700, CA Audio Labs CD and his old Linn is my primary table.

class of '71.
one of the first bands I saw was Captain Beefheart in Des Moines,IA.
The first quality system I heard was McIntosh / Klipsch, hooked ever since.

66 but not feeling that way. 

65
Saw Beatles, Stones, Herman's Hermits live on Ed Sullivan.
Saw The Who, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton, to name a few, live at local venues.
Bought my first mid-fi system in 1972 and have been enjoying music on an ever changing system ever since.
Music has been a great part of my life since my first memories.