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When did you get hooked?

For me, it was 1971 in the Mekong delta.....a fellow soldier sponsored a night-time social gathering and had his modest stereo rig set up for the party. I'm pretty sure that a Pioneer receiver (SX-424?) was involved, but the speakers were definitely a lowly pair of Pioneer CS-33s. Paul McCartney's album 'Ram' was on the turntable and the song 'Uncle Albert' penetrated my alcohol/herbal-infused fog in a manner that made me realize I would never be the same going forward. It was definitely a thunder-clap moment, not a slow evolution or awakening, and a huge debt of gratitude is owed to the unknown soldier who started me on my long journey.

 

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In the mid 1950s a neighbor had a JBL C34 rear-loaded corner horn, a custom amp with separate power supply he had designed, and a Garrard RC 80 with GE variable reluctance cartridge.  The sound was a revelation to me, and I was hooked.  I added an RCA jack to my Fender guitar amp for an RCA changer -- I think I was a college freshman, but maybe a high school senior.

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