New Audiophile?

What a great thread.  I just gave my 11 year old grandson his first stereo for Christmas and he was thrilled.  Beginners turntable etc.  His uncle gave him new and used records, mostly hard rock classics.  Then he had to check out my rig and I gave him lessons about cleaning [and keeping clean] records. Great, well spent holiday.

This is definitely a fun thread. For Xmas I replaced my grown daughters all in one broken Wi-Fi turntable with odds and ends around my house. I gave her Opera Consonance Cyber 100 Signature tube integrated, upgraded U-Turn Audio turntable and vintage late 1970 Polk speakers. Now my 4 year old grandson and 6 month old granddaughter sit still on the couch and listen to albums as if it was a TV program. Most evenings before night time the 4 year old grandson dances to 2-3 songs joined by the entire household. I am thrilled.

My 35 year old  son's wife bought him an all n one record player on sale about $200. They collect a couple dozen rare lps from 90's bands. He was kinda proud of it saying "sounds pretty good, huh"? Through my teeth I said yeah, not bad.

He brought over a new lndie lp he just got. Put it on my revealing mid fi system. He said wow, I never heard that violin or those backing vocals before. I felt pretty good.

I know he ll never put the $$$ into a system like mine, but he respects my hobby.

I jump started my son on his 16th Birthday.

Dennis Murphy modded Pioneer monitors.

Schiit DAC

Parts Express 10 in sealed sub.

We made a high pass filter with a couple of caps in the cables.

He borrowed an original NAD 3020 from the storage rack in the basement. ( noisy controls) 

He got a Sony 2 channel integrated with BT a year later.

He is 28 now and still likes to lay by the sub while cranking tunes.

@paulfolbrecht 

Once she realizes the amount of sweat equity that's required, she'll run from it like the plague.