As a kid, I had always wished to be the age I am today (36). I wanted to have the finances to buy all the audio equipment I would dream of. I remember when I was 14 years old, I had a paper route and saved up enough money all summer long to buy a Marantz receiver in 1981, from Leo's stereo. I don't recall the exact city, but in the Los Angeles area.
I remember getting up on Saturday morning and waking my mom at 930am so I could be there when they opened at 10am (god, she must have hated me then). We went down to the store and I knew exactly what I wanted. I can recall my parents keeping the receipt for me in their safe, and even though I had other pieces of audio equipment before, that was my first piece of real home stereo equipment that I earned and found myself.
That September I started my freshman year of high school, and the quest was on...
Today I have most of the things I dreamt of as a youth in my house and in my car, but nothing can compare to how my system sounded in my own room when I was 14. That was priceless.
I remember getting up on Saturday morning and waking my mom at 930am so I could be there when they opened at 10am (god, she must have hated me then). We went down to the store and I knew exactly what I wanted. I can recall my parents keeping the receipt for me in their safe, and even though I had other pieces of audio equipment before, that was my first piece of real home stereo equipment that I earned and found myself.
That September I started my freshman year of high school, and the quest was on...
Today I have most of the things I dreamt of as a youth in my house and in my car, but nothing can compare to how my system sounded in my own room when I was 14. That was priceless.