For me, it really started in '72, the day after I graduated from high school. A buddy wanted to sell an amplifier to raise thirty bucks so he could buy some of the great new weed that had just come into town. I told him I didn't play guitar, so I didn't want an amp. He told me that it was used in a stereo to listen to music, and offered to bring it over. It was a Knight integrated amp, but I don't recall anything else about it. He hooked it up to my speakers(my system was one of those units with a tuner, turntable, and 8-track in one chassis, with separate speakers), and I was stunned at how much better those speakers sounded driven by that amp. I bought it, allowing him to indulge in his addiction, and unknowingly beginning my own. Within two days, I had blown those speakers. I went to the local Radio Shack to look for better ones, and began the first of many, many auditions. I had always been a music lover, but my love for equipment as a means of getting to the music began then. It's been a wonderful 31 years!
When did it all start?
I heard a song this morning that reminded me of when I first became interested in music production and in audio equipment. I heard this song for the first time on my older brother's new system in about 1978.
He was home from university for the summer and having acquired a good paying job from a local chemical plant, had been in search of new equipment to replace his hopelessly outdated (and pathetic) "system".
I recall that he had gone to a "big city" to look for audio nirvanna and had come home with a technics reciever the size of a Buick, a technics turntable, a JVC top-load cassette deck and a pair of mammoth Acoustic Research speakers.
When he hooked it up in his 9' x 8' x 8' room and turned it on, I was hooked.
I was about 12 years old. Maybe I'm just feeling a little too nostalgic, but it occurred to me that this was an epiphanous moment in my life.
Did this happened to you?
He was home from university for the summer and having acquired a good paying job from a local chemical plant, had been in search of new equipment to replace his hopelessly outdated (and pathetic) "system".
I recall that he had gone to a "big city" to look for audio nirvanna and had come home with a technics reciever the size of a Buick, a technics turntable, a JVC top-load cassette deck and a pair of mammoth Acoustic Research speakers.
When he hooked it up in his 9' x 8' x 8' room and turned it on, I was hooked.
I was about 12 years old. Maybe I'm just feeling a little too nostalgic, but it occurred to me that this was an epiphanous moment in my life.
Did this happened to you?