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
Newspaper delivery boys-spending $$ to buy stereo equipment, beer, cigarettes and ??? Some thread drift for anyone interested--I delivered a local newspaper, The Citizen Register, that had great front pages...landing on the moon, Woodstock, Mets win the World Series. Some of the front pages weren't so good...assassinations of MLK and RFK, Tate-LaBianca murders... |
My family was poor completely illiterate.I want books even before knowing how to read then my mother had no choice but to read me comics book strips when i had 4 or 5 before school. Then at 10 in 1960 i read title about US election between Nixon and Kennedy and i remember till today reading the title and praying for Nixon because his name pleased me the more . Then i decide to deliver newspapers, a way to buy the first sound system and books... I became "litterate" so to speak in litterature, as in linguistics and maths thanks to a school system now forever erased from North America. I loved music but books was my priority all my life... i studied basic acoustics by love of book few years ago to set my system/room... I stumbled by serendipity on a totally unknown book "Sounds source" by a Nigerian acoustician, a genius, who gave me the cue about what is sound... oups! i spoke too much, it is another story...
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@mahgister -"thanks to a school system now forever erased from North America" This 30+ year educator agrees. Now, schools teach to the test. |
I was about 12. My parents owned and operated a TV store, sales and repair, and I worked in the store. By saving my modest pay, I was able to purchase a Zenith "portable" stereo record player that had two 5 & 1/4" speakers on the front face of the unit--about 4-6" apart, not great separation, but both my 12" LP records--Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra and George Szell and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra playing Beethoven's 5th Symphony--sounded fabulous to me. While I worked my way through college, with the help of a two-year ROTC scholarship, I spent some of my earnings on a stereo system, and I still have some of the LPs from those days, after some of them made three round-trips across the Atlantic Ocean for my three tours of duty in Germany with the U.S. Army. |
