I started with a Realistic turntable with accompanying speakers, then graduated to a Craig 3-in-1 (with 8-track). The thing that got me into wanting high end gear was my cousin’s Pioneer SPEC gear (with Oscilloscope, Equalizer, Cassette, and R2R). He had a Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4002 that was fascinating. Sounded great, too. Today, one of my systems has this turntable paired with a SPEC 1.
How old were you when audio gear first caught your interest?
Wondering how old people were when they first started to get interested in audio gear.
I first heard of Dual and Acoustic Research when I was around 13, but it did nothing for me, however, by the time I was 15 or 16 I definitely was interested. A relative had a Dual turntable, Scott receiver, Tandberg reel to reel and Rectilinear speakers (and he still has that gear, and the Rectilinears are still in use). I remember helping him get the speakers into his apartment. I also knew of Thorens.
That’s all back in the 70’s
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Oh yeah, good syuff I recently restored two pairs of AR-2ax (I had them in my College Days, late 60’s) https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10092 And I had a Fisher 800C (500C but AM also) (sometimes called the ’Executive’) which I traded a member here for his Mitsubishi Vertical TT, LT-5V seen in one of the photos in that link above. I’ve got One 500C ready for sale, one other just needing to have the FM aligned, and a 3rd for parts, and maybe a spare faceplate, the width chopped down to fit inside a case
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