A pawn shop in Austin, Texas, my freshman year of college at UT in 1988. They had a pair of infinity speakers (I was an avid reader of Stereo Review at the time and knew that brand was at least decent) and they wanted $100 for the pair and I started to walk out of the store twice before they finally came down to something like $25. They matched quite nicely with my cheap Sherwood receiver. I wish I could remember what model they were. That was the start of 34 years of obsession and buying and selling and tweaking that will likely never end.
Where did you buy your first audio gear?
I bought my first audio gear in a Post Exchange PX store in Baumholder Germany. I was a young soldier about 20 yrs old and bought a SAE amp and Preamp, Bose 901 speakers, Sony CDP-101 CD player and a Thorens TD 320 turntable. Where did you buy your first audio gear? What did you get?