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acquired a good paying job from a local chemical plant, had been in search of new equipment to replace his hopelessly outdated (and pathetic) "system".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?
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Beatles? S&G? 1972? What were you smoking, there, at 11? Being 11 in '72 and 11 in '64--I was watching the Beatles, on Ed Sullivan, singing I Want to Hold Your Hand. Man, was that something. Shindig, Hullabaloo, the Smothers Brothers. Here I go again. peace, warren
Circa 72, when in my early teens I heard a system that one of my moms younger hippie brothers took in as payment on some plant products he was distributing at the time, an integrated Marantz receiver with built in tt, and a pair of 3 way speakers of unknown brand and scratched out serial numbers. I walked into his room as Zeppelins Levee was blaring away and I was hooked. Ironically, I bought the system from him a few years later when he needed some quick scratch to get out of town and moved to Tempe,AZ for "business". I can't recall what I did with that Marantz, possibly the result of saidsame plant products. It was a beauty with an excellent receiver. I really wish I knew what I did with it.......
Marakanetz...

I don't recall that cables and interconnects were anything special. In fact, I wonder if the word "interconnect" was ever used in 1978....

I imagine the interconnects were whatever crap came with the individual components. I do recall that his speaker cables looked like regular brown electrical cord. woo-hoo!! take about "hi-fi"!

cheers!

ps....I'm a little surprised that no one was curious enough to ask what the song was that started all of my reminiscing.
Why, what does a dumb young kid know??? Maybe all the talk about them seemed like they were still together. Remember this was my intro!
I do remember hearing about Jim Morrison dying though... then the DJ played 'Riders on the Storm.' Or maybe I just think I remember it. It was strange days.
Mid sixties, fold-up suitcase type Zenith stereo was my first unit(Dave Clark Five,"Glad All Over" my first LP and still have it!). Then Lafayette integrated and tuner and then a Dynaco SCA-80 and Dynaco A-25 speakers then on and on and on.......I have had many systems but I still don't consider myself an audiophile and still don't have a great stereo system. Maybe some day. Cheers