When did it all start?


I heard a song this morning that reminded me of when I first became interested in music production and in audio equipment. I heard this song for the first time on my older brother's new system in about 1978.

He was home from university for the summer and having acquired a good paying job from a local chemical plant, had been in search of new equipment to replace his hopelessly outdated (and pathetic) "system".

I recall that he had gone to a "big city" to look for audio nirvanna and had come home with a technics reciever the size of a Buick, a technics turntable, a JVC top-load cassette deck and a pair of mammoth Acoustic Research speakers.

When he hooked it up in his 9' x 8' x 8' room and turned it on, I was hooked.

I was about 12 years old. Maybe I'm just feeling a little too nostalgic, but it occurred to me that this was an epiphanous moment in my life.

Did this happened to you?
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At a boarding school in New Zealand, late 1940's. The headmaster compelled us to listen to classical music on his state of the art rig. Although monophonic, it used two large speakers. I don't know what the electronics were, but the turntable had a cartridge that used removable wooden needles. The needles had a triangular cross section, and were frequently resharpened using a specially designed clipper.