Garrard belt drive with throw-away shure cart., JVC integrated 30 wpc amp, Pioneer project 60 speakers, all bought in 1977 also from summers washing dishes! My old man was mad as hell because I was supposed to be saving that $$ for college. "He bought a guitar, to punish his ma.." Used to play DSOM, Yes, and Supertramp after school as loud as I could get it, before the old man came home from work and then I'd have to turn it off. Probably why I can't hear nothin above 16K now |
Pcook15- I started with the same receiver, a Pioneer SX-680, which my dad still has and uses along with my first speakers and they still sound pretty darn good together. The rest of my first rig consisted of Advent speakers, a JVC cassette deck, and a Phillips turntable. Well, now wait a minute, I can go back a bit further to when I was even younger I had a one-box solution: a Kenner Close'N'Play turntable. Before that I may have had a musical mobile or some such thing, but it likely only played one tune, and I really don't remember the brand, or even what it looked like.
Marco |
altec lancing receiver with garrard turntable built-in on top and brawn (pre ads )speakers |
I KNEW this would be a good thread. As for me, I paid $300 for that system. My father was FURIOUS that I blew that much $$$ at the time. I was definately hooked after that playing Deep Purple, Hendrix, Doors, all that good stuff. As for my pops, he came over the other week, looked at my current rig and said "Good Lord, that looks expensive, and I'm sure it was!!!" I sat him down, played Evanescence "My Immortal" and he was just speechless and smiling. Enjoy the music!!! |
Very first system was in 1991 Sony minisystem. Pretty nice actually.
First system I paid for(1996)consisted of a
Harmon Kardon AVR10 receiver
PSB Alpha Speakers
Yamaha CCD 565 5 disc changer
I loved that stereo so much. Nice warm sound with surprisingly good bass. I got the suggestion from a Details magazine. |
Lafayette Receiver
Dual 1219 with Stanton cartridge
Large Advent Speakers
Advent Dobly cassette deck |
Lafayette receiver
AR 4x speakers
Garrad turntable
Hendrix, Tull, The Beatles, Cream, Doors, etc. etc. never sounded so good. I was hooked... |
It was in 1974, Ludswigsburg, West Germany. I don't remember model numbers only names. I had a Sansui integrated amp it was black with lots of knobs, a Pioneer PL 15 turntable and a pair of two way bookshelf speaker's from a company in Massachusetts USA I think they were named Rectilinier or something. 30 years ago, man i feel old. |
HK 730 Receiver
BES Speakers
Onkyo TT
Sansui Cassette deck
Radio Shack 8 track Player/Recorder |
Age 23 in 1972 !! A Harmon Kardon Nochturn 820 Receiver Harmon Kardon HK 40 speaks and a Gerrard SL 72B TT. Played Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, Led Zep, James Taylor and King Crimson till my head caved in. It was by far the best system anyone I knew had and remained so for quit a few years. The whole shootin match got ripped of in a Christmas Eve heist while I was at U Of F In good old Gainesville FLA. Thats when the Real trouble started!!!Been at it ever since. Watch out if that Lotto number ever hits. |
Marantz 2235 receiver, Marantz turntable, Marantz bookshelf speakers......with the supplied patch cord.....circa 1974. |
1973 at 14 years old. All Marantz system. Think that the receiver was a 2275. Don't remember the speakers or the turntable. Paid for by me with lawn mowing jobs. The rest is history. If I only knew then that some 30 years later that I would need to get another lawn mowing job to keep paying for this hobby.....WHOA!!!
Good listening,
Steve Bachman
Phoenix, AZ |
My first "real" system consisted of a Sony STR-1800 receiver, Technics SL-23 turntable with an Audio Technica AT-12XE cartridge and Bose 301's. I was thirteen years old and this system was purchased for me by my parents. Somehow, i think that my Father had more input on this one than my Mother did : ) Sean
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1980 ... I was 15 years old,
Sansui AU-7700 integrated amp and the matching TU-7700 tuner, Bose 901 Series II and some sort of BIC turntable that I had to rebuild in electronics class. I worked washing dishes for an entire summer to pay for it. I bought it from the neighborhood rich-kid, piece by piece as I recall. I received a JVC cassette deck that same year for Christmas and somehow got my hands on a Teac reel to reel.
My first album was The Kinks "Low Budget" ... I was in heaven.
I have spent tens of thousands on hi-fi equipment since then, but I have never made it back to the nirvana of the first week with my first system. I wont even go into my current mess of mis-matched toys - the good news is ... I'm still not happy. |
A Marantz receiver, Acoustic Research speakers, Acoustic Research turntable. I don't remember what it was hooked up with or what phono cartridge I used. |
Some kind of boombox, I forget what brand. I then bought a cd player but ran it through my ex-girlfriend's Onkyo reciever so I guess that doesn't really count. I guess that makes my 1st truly real system a Rega Planet, a Bryston B-60, some kind of Definitive Technology floorstanding speakers, all strung together with Vampyire wire. Pretty good for a first try, though I have to give the credit to Tom Unger at Gifted Listener Audio who sold me everything but the speakers. |
