Where did you buy your first audio gear?

1973, I was 19 at Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan, base sterio store.  Bose 901s, Akai cassette player, Sansui receiver, Gerrard Zero 100 turntable, and I finished with an Akai reel to reel with an 8-track in its side.  I was happier than a pig in mud😁

When I went to college after the Marines, i got involved in the sterio escalation wars with my fraternity brothers.  I was the man they were all gunning for.  Went to Pioneer 950, then someone got the 1050, then someone else went 1250, some others went Yamaha; GREAT time to be alive. When my monthly GI Bill check was received, we'd go buy some more pot and listen to music.  I did graduate😂

Tech hi-fi in Bryn Mawr, just outside of Philadelphia. A pair of large advent loudspeakers, a Nikko 7075 receiver, and a Phillips 212 turntable I was 16 years old. 

PX in Nuremberg. 1962. Bought a Thorens TD124 turntable for $72.

Small hifi storefront on Valley Road in South Orange, New Jersey.  Don't remember the name.  Became a pet store a few years later.

I walked past this store every day going to high school.  The window display fascinated me.  I saved up my lunch money for over a year and bought a Fisher 3 piece system with turntable built into the top of a receiver, plus 2 speakers -- midfi at best.  Cost a whopping $300.

Sophomore year at CWRU in Cleveland Heights, OH, 1974: Dynaco SCA80 from a mail order firm in Maryland, I think. An AR-XA turntable and a pair of AR-4xa speakers from Coventry Audio in Cleveland Heights.  Sounded great in my dorm, being fed a steady stream of LPs from Record Revolution, which just closed up shop after 55 yrs!

Tech HiFi in Springfield, NJ. 

Fort Ord PX 1972!  Cheap but it was the start.

Tech Hi Fi in Ann Arbor, Mi, 1977.  All entry level.  A Pioneer receiver,Garrard turntable, Advent III speakers.  Had to replace the receiver when it died after a few years but the speakers and tt did yeomans work for another three decades