Thinking about the good old days...


I'm definitely  an old geezer, and have a lot of experiences and memories to reflect on.  Lately, I've been remembering the enjoyment of "audio" back when I was just starting down this path: the music was just so amazingly enjoyable and fun.  I think my greatest satisfaction with my own audio stuff was when what-passed-for-my-system was a Fisher 90T tuner/preamp, Fisher 80AZ amp, a University speaker enclosure that I built ftom a lot fitted with 12" University woofer and some University tweeter (I forget what).  The only source was a Lenco turntable with a GE VR2 cartridge.  Dang, that stuff was just so wonderful to my young self!
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@dsper Ever shop at Dodd’s Record Shop, or....Believe in Music (records and paraphernalia) back in the day in GR?
I checked out Believe n Music but never hit Dodds. Probably missed a good one.

I attended Aquinas College and spent a lot of time in a record store, don't recall the name, close to campus near Wealthy Street.

However, I do have a distinct memory of listening to  "Brown Eyed Girl" in that store and thinking there was no stadium at Aquinas so I needed to figure out plan B, which was a real problem in that I lived at home while getting my degree!

Thanks for listening,

Dsper
You all are bringing back the memories! First Album - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and second - "The Doors" in like 68 or 69 in Grand Rapids, Michigan..

First real speakers were smaller Advents. Traded up to Large Advents in early seventies In Elkhart Indiana and thought I was in heaven.

Kenwood and Onkyo integrateds. Luxman turntable with Shure V15 Type IV cartridge. I wore that baby out! Still have it, as a keepsake, I guess.

Radio Doctors on Third and Wells In Milwaukee, Wisconsin. $5 per album. One Saturday a month I would buy 4 albums and then meet my buddy for beer and listening while watching football.

Then the glory days ended and I moved on to California. First CD player  was in the 80's and I thought it is was not near the quality of the Luxman and Shure for vinyl.

The on to New York and Ohio with no upgrades still using the Luxman and Shure..

Finally got back to Indiana and then heard my first Magnepan speakers, which started my true audiophile madness - six different speakers in about nine years.

I guess my holy grail would be the Advent sound in a modern day speaker. Just something about those Advents was so smooth and the bass!

Dsper