Your First Hi-Fi Hankering?


Everybody remember the first time as a teenager you fell in love with a stereo? The first system that you really wanted badly? What was it? Did you buy it?

Don't laugh, but mine was a 55wpc Harman Kardon Receiver, Klipsch Fortes and a Dennon turntable. I had to settle for a Pioneer SX-650, Technics turntable (Empire Cartridge?) and a pair of crap house brand speakers called ECI.

This was in Scottsdale, AZ in the mid-late 70's. My dream system was at a place called Bill's Sight and Sound at Los Arcos Mall & bought the other stuff at a place called Custom Hi-Fi.
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Sony reel-to-reel with Radio Shack headphones. Graduated to a Radio Shack amplifier and Advent One speakers, then, finally, to Crown electronics with the Advents and Tecnics TT. I was in heaven! (for awhile!)
I wasn't a teenager when I fell in love with a stereo, I was 23. In fact, it wasn't until just two years ago. It was at Aurant in Salt Lake City. They had a small room with Rotel separates and b&w CDM (?) floorstanders. My then fiancee and I had stopped in to just see what the store was, and I sat there completely blown away by what I heard.

Never bought any of that equipment, but that marked the start of my need for a really good hifi system.
Pioneer HPM 100's? Nah, it was JBL-100's for me.. I remember being 15 or 16 yrs. old in the "back" room of MACE Electronics in 1976 or so hearing Supertramp "Lady" from "Crisis, What Crisis" screaming out of a pair of L-100's at what must have been 125 db. Never forgot that experience