I'm old :-)
For me, it all started when I was in the seventh grade (1958). Some friends and I used to go down into the finished basement of one of the guys homes after school to listen to our rock n roll records on this dads system, which consisted of a Dynaco tubed mono amplifier, preamp, and tuner and a Red-O-Kut Rondine Jr. 'table and arm with a Pickering cartridge, and a home-built corner speaker cabinet that he built from plans found in a magazine. featuring a poured concrete front baffle and housing a 15" EV coaxial driver.
I got hooked!
By 1959 I purchased my first system, also mono, from one of those stores located on "Radio Row" in lower Manhattan. It consisted of a Harman-Kardon tubed integrated and matching FM tuner, a Garrard Type A changer with a Pickering cartridge, and an Electrovoice "Leyton" single box "bookshelf" speaker system.
And so it goes :-)
For me, it all started when I was in the seventh grade (1958). Some friends and I used to go down into the finished basement of one of the guys homes after school to listen to our rock n roll records on this dads system, which consisted of a Dynaco tubed mono amplifier, preamp, and tuner and a Red-O-Kut Rondine Jr. 'table and arm with a Pickering cartridge, and a home-built corner speaker cabinet that he built from plans found in a magazine. featuring a poured concrete front baffle and housing a 15" EV coaxial driver.
I got hooked!
By 1959 I purchased my first system, also mono, from one of those stores located on "Radio Row" in lower Manhattan. It consisted of a Harman-Kardon tubed integrated and matching FM tuner, a Garrard Type A changer with a Pickering cartridge, and an Electrovoice "Leyton" single box "bookshelf" speaker system.
And so it goes :-)