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n8thesk8

n8thesk8

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When you got your first stereo you would still be doing it today? For me it's been 35 years. I only had a small break when I did the home theater in a box. I never imagined that it would be such a big part of my life. It lasted a lot longer than my marriage did. My first stereo sucked so bad. It didn't matter because it was mine. Now I still have a lot of stereos that suck but they sound good to me. That's all that matters. Just some thoughts from N8 after a few beers.:beer: N8
 
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When you got your first stereo you would still be doing it today? For me it's been 35 years. I only had a small break when I did the home theater in a box. I never imagined that it would be such a big part of my life. It lasted a lot longer than my marriage did. My first stereo sucked so bad. It didn't matter because it was mine. Now I still have a lot of stereos that suck but they sound good to me. That's all that matters. Just some thoughts from N8 after a few beers.:beer: N8
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What first stereo did you have that sucked? What do you use now?:scratch2:
 
My first one was a Lloyds Quadrofonic. Now I have Pioneer, Yamaha, Sansui, Kenwood and many others. N8
 
Lloyds all in one with a turntable on top and them great speakers(gave it to my brudder ) quickly followed by my parents left over electrohome tube console when they updated to SS
 
My first stereo was a Sounddesign AM/FM 8 track player and I was hooked from then on slowly improving along the way... Still improving to a never ending quest of great sounding music...
 
I had the BOTL Lloyd's; am/fm, eight-track playback only. You guys had quadrophonic and turntables. You high-end braggarts. :)
 
Yes... because music is me...


I bought my first "system" at 13... $100 from a want ad.. .I mowed yards for two weeks to earn it... a Panasonic all in one with thrusters and a tape deck. First upgrade was a pair of Mach1s at 14....

I just keep going, and spending more
 
Gosh, my first adventure into the world of audio was one of those small 3 1/2 inch open reel to reel decks that ran on battery power back around 1961 or 62 I think. I have been progressing my gear ever since. I loved that little old tape recorder but I love my Teac A4300 a whole lot more! :D
 
When I first started, it was with a VM console. I was 13. I just kinda knew that I'd be trying to improve the sound of my music reproduction gear all my life, no matter what. 37 years later, I still try.:D
Tom
 
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When I first started, it was with a VM console. I was 13. I just kinda knew that I'd be trying to improve the sound of my music reproduction gear all my life, no matter what. 37 years later, I still try.:D
Tom
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Now a days you have a kid with 6 months experience producing music. Just think what you could teach these new guys. N8
 
It's nice to hear about other's first (crappy) system. Mine was a Yorx all-in-one that I loved. I even saved up lawn mowing money to buy a pair (I kid you not) of TOTL Soundesign floor standing speakers (real 3-ways with 12" woofers) that were rated at 15 watts handling. Of course the Yorx sounded great with those speakers - hahaha.

I used my very first 'real' receiver in college (a 12 wpc MCS 3212) to blow the bejeezus out of the Soundesigns. I then took a saw to them and cut them up bad - just to see the innards.

It's been a fun journey ever since, but I still can't seem to shake my love of MCS. I have another receiver of their's on it's way to me now - a 3285. Old habits die hard.

Rob
 
All-in-one Sylvania with TT and cassette and a pair of Quadraflex headphones. Got it for Christmas when I was 16. I had Black Sabbath's Masters of Reality, Humble Pie's Smokin' & Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards. I was up all night.
 
35 years here and still at it. GE wildcat was my first. Back the I never thought I'd make it to this age let alone still be messing with gear. I did miss quite a few years that involved raising a family and remodeling an old house. Thankfully those days are behind me now. I can hunt down and acquire things I used to dream about decades ago.
 
I had a Sharp all-in-one thing from the early 90s or late 80s. I don't actually remember how it came into my possession. I remember it had a remote, an EQ, and aux input for CD players. I liked it. Probably last saw it way back in '96. My grandma tossed it out. I would find a place in my room to put it if I ever found another.
 
To answer your question, yes. I was firmly addicted to this hobby early in life. Not to acquisition, but to the tradition stereo layout: receiver, turntable, recording tape deck, speakers. I've had a stereo like this at hand in my daily life since birth (my parents always had some kind of stereo), and my very own stereo since about the age of ten. My first stereo sucked too, but it got the job done. It was a Radio Shack setup, BOTL or nearly so, little receiver, top-loading cassette, rebranded Panasonic 4-speed changer, and little bookshelves- all clad in the famous RS Genuine Walnut Veneer. I thought it was swell, but the limitations of the turntable especially grew tiresome quickly- within a year Mom sprang for a proper s-arm two speed belt drive table. Granted, it was still from Radio Shack (where I'm from there was nothing else to choose from in 1975), but back then they carried some decent stuff, and it made me very happy.

Funny thing, later I upgraded to a direct drive Yamaha. After having it for three months or so what did I want? My old Lab 300 back. Tough noogies, back then my wiggle room was near zero (completely broke college student), so I stuck with the surprisingly subpar Yamaha until I could afford something else.
 
I went the component route 43 years ago: itty-bitty Lafayette transistor amp (maybe 5WPC on a great day), Lafayette TT complete with record-gouging ceramic cart and a pair of 8" Lafayette speakers complete with "whizzer" cones. Dad built some simple cabinets for the speakers and I was rockin'. Still have the little amp, and the speakers are hanging in my Dad's workshop. TT died eons ago.
 
June 1978. My from loaned me $400.00 for my first "real" system. A small JVC intergrated amp, small Advents and a Technics turntable. That system sounded wonderful. Working at Lee's IGA helped me pay off the loan to my Mom before the end of that summer.
 
I am 55 and never had a music system of my own until getting into this hobby in 1991. As a kid growing up, my folks had a tube console that they bought new, I think it was a Magnavox. Most of my friends had their own systems once they moved out on their own, but nothing great. I don't know if it didn't matter to us, or we just didn't realize good gear was out there.

In '91, I started off with a Sherwood SS receiver and some Technics e9900 speakers of some sort and a MCS turntable. All bought at yardsales with play money. From there the addiction has progressed.
 
I started with a Panasonic, I think it was called the Orbita. Round space like speakers. Then came the Pioneer Receiver.
 
Not even sure when I got it..... maybe '74 or so? I had a cool old Sanyo all in one unit, TT, tuner and top loading cassette deck for my first 'real' stereo.... before that I was using some console phono player my mom had picked up for me at a yard sale :). The Sanyo had a Lloyds 8 track player/recorder hooked into it. When I was old enough to drive and get a job I chucked the Sanyo and got separates..... 30 years later I'm wishing I had that nifty Sanyo back :).
 
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