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Your First Hi-Fi Hankering?

Everybody remember the first time as a teenager you fell in love with a stereo? The first system that you really wanted badly? What was it? Did you buy it?

Don't laugh, but mine was a 55wpc Harman Kardon Receiver, Klipsch Fortes and a Dennon turntable. I had to settle for a Pioneer SX-650, Technics turntable (Empire Cartridge?) and a pair of crap house brand speakers called ECI.

This was in Scottsdale, AZ in the mid-late 70's. My dream system was at a place called Bill's Sight and Sound at Los Arcos Mall & bought the other stuff at a place called Custom Hi-Fi.
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xiekitchen
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In the mid 70's I was about 15 yrs. old, I loved those Marantz receivers with the script type and purple-blue lights..
I remember hearing the big JBL L-200's about that time.. so powerful they were scary.
xiekitchen
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Pioneer HPM 100's? Nah, it was JBL-100's for me.. I remember being 15 or 16 yrs. old in the "back" room of MACE Electronics in 1976 or so hearing Supertramp "Lady" from "Crisis, What Crisis" screaming out of a pair of L-100's at what must have been 125 db. Never forgot that experience
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