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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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Mono system with K-Horn/Garrard TT around 1960.

The amp was a Heathkit W5M (confirmed some 35 years later when a friend found one @ a local thrift).

Don't recall the preamp/R2R deck brands.

A couple years later the system (neighbor across the street) became stereo with 2 K-Horns, Marantz tube gear plus an additional TT (Thorens or Garrard) and a 2nd R2R.

I know the 2nd stereo amp was an 8 or 8B, but I vividly recall it having a white faced meter  (all I've seen in later years have dark faced meters).

Faulty memory or did they also come with a white faced meter?

 

DeKay

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