Well.......in 1949 (almost the exact middle of the last century) I was listening to 78s on my mom and dad's console record-player......I think it was a Zenith.....Bing Crosby, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, The Andrews Sisters, Doris Day.......
Those were big, heavy, black records with wonderful red labels.....some black labels......they looked and sounded pretty.
My parents traded that console for a Setchell-Carlson tv.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Years passed.
I bought a simple Panasonic stereo radio and stack changer in 1971.....James Taylor, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan days. I lost that and almost all of the records to a divorce in the 80s.
After some hard times, I bought an Aiwa combo unit in the 90s (it was unusual in that it included a turntable). Slowly started picking up a few LPs here and there at garage sales and auctions. Sometimes I'd see old silver-faced receivers and bizarre-looking turntables and think about the systems I'd missed.
Finally took a chance on a $20 Technics SA-200 a few years back.......then an old Magnavox Astrosonic........then came the Technics SL-D2.......then the Pioneer SX-650.......then the Technics SA-300......then a $5 BSR McDonald stacker......then the Technics SL-1600.......then a Technics SA-101.
I'm learning the whole thing like a new convert......slowly.
I have about 200 records now........and have given a few boxes of the ones that didn't work out to the Good Will and Salvation army.
I regard myself as a novice and still don't know a lot of simple technical things......but I'm learning.
