Mary,
What a great thread.
Well I guess it starts with mom. When I was 7 or 8 she bought me a small all in one record player (FisherPrice I think) and a few records for christmas. That would be 1972 or 73. In my early teens mom again, as we had a console system in the house and pleanty of records, used to love to crank that system. Lets see at the age of 17 there was Mike, Onkio, and Alan Parsons. Then we jump forward to 85 Rick and his suggestion to get NAD which I did. Ok in 87 a different Rick and his new system (Adcom and Infinate Slope speakers) along with my introduction to Audio Review the magazine (hope I remembered the title correctly). Ok I was not sunk yet. That didn't come untill 2003 and my quest for new speakers. I found one store that had the polk's I was looking at getting. But after a listening session I am thinking this isn't all that great so I figured I would bite the bullet and go down to ListenUp and listen to B&W Can't remember the salesman's name but I left with a pair of CDM9NT's. That was it I was sunk thanks to Lew Black who let's me come into the store anytime I want to just listen. Not to mention some other great store owners around town that have let me come in to just listen and learn.
What a great thread.
Well I guess it starts with mom. When I was 7 or 8 she bought me a small all in one record player (FisherPrice I think) and a few records for christmas. That would be 1972 or 73. In my early teens mom again, as we had a console system in the house and pleanty of records, used to love to crank that system. Lets see at the age of 17 there was Mike, Onkio, and Alan Parsons. Then we jump forward to 85 Rick and his suggestion to get NAD which I did. Ok in 87 a different Rick and his new system (Adcom and Infinate Slope speakers) along with my introduction to Audio Review the magazine (hope I remembered the title correctly). Ok I was not sunk yet. That didn't come untill 2003 and my quest for new speakers. I found one store that had the polk's I was looking at getting. But after a listening session I am thinking this isn't all that great so I figured I would bite the bullet and go down to ListenUp and listen to B&W Can't remember the salesman's name but I left with a pair of CDM9NT's. That was it I was sunk thanks to Lew Black who let's me come into the store anytime I want to just listen. Not to mention some other great store owners around town that have let me come in to just listen and learn.