What was your first method of listening to music?

[CDELON]

Mine was a little Panasonic AM Radio. 1974
I still have it.

 

[vinowino]

Around 1959-60. A crystal set like the one below. My brother and I shared the same bedroom and both had one.
We would tune in after bedtime when we were supposed to be asleep.

 

[Mystic]

Either FM radio (parent's "console" thing) IN the house or AM radio IN a car. Or maybe some sorta table-top or mobile transistor radio. har to recall back THAT far. But as for my first "critical (purposeful?) listening" to material I selected to hear, definitely my first TT and LPs and/or 45s, though many more LPs than 45s. Wasn't then (or later/ever) a fan of having to jump up and change records every 2-3 minutes. But I still managed to collect ~700-800 45s by the time of my mid-point adolescence.

 

[quiet]

A green vinyl covered cardboard am/fm transistor portable radio with a hand strap. The size of a size 6 shoe box. 1968.

 

[qdrone]

Various Am car radios,whatever my parents owned.

 

[Schurkey]

I still have it. To this day, I don't understand the attraction to hisssssy ticky poppy vinyl.

 

[the_nines]

My father bought it ~1967:

The old BSR record changer is long gone. The Dual is something I did for them last year. I had to make a separate mounting board (the stain didn't quite match, but it was what I had available at the time).

It still plays quite nice.


Edit: Added pics of actual unit.



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[theophile]

Via the Amniotic Fluid.

 

[savatage1973]

Of course there was AM radio in the car, and a tabletop AM radio in the kitchen that was on during breakfast every day for news/weather and music. Parents had a big old console (well it wasn't old back then) in the living room, but they didn't use it much.

My first personal piece was a portable hand-held 9v AM transistor radio--IIRC, an Emerson. Then I was given a Philco "suitcase" record player a few years later. It's all been "downhill" since then

 

[mikeybc]

I guess it was a Grundig Yacht Boy 202. Was always on in the dining room since from when I was a baby into my teens. The first device of my own was a Lloyd's clock radio

 

[FONSguy]

Mom's portable, leather bound AM radio. Top 40 ALL DAY! Started listening about 1957 or so. It lasted until the late 1960's. It was replaced by another AM radio.

 

[gtv2000]

Little 9V transistor radio under the pillow at night.

 

[satellite65]

Saved my allowance for a long time to save up for a Zenith Royal 16 billfold radio.

Still use it occasionally 50 years later...
Sounds quite good for a pocket size AM radio.

 

[Yamaki]

Granddad had a Magnavox console - AM/FM, 33/45/78 TT, dual speakers; all done in a dark walnut veneer. Spent hours listening to the radio and Granddad's country western girlfriend Patsy Cline.

When Grandma wanted to listen to her classical records, Granddad and I usually found something to work on in the shop.

 

[musichal]

Little 9V transistor radio under the pillow at night.

That was also my habit with a device that I actually owned, but my dad bought a Sears and Roebuck console in the early 60s that I often used for vinyl playback of my parents' records. Gogi Grant singing The Wayward Wind, Marty Robbins' El Paso, Frankie Lane's Mule Train, Tennessee Ernie Ford's Sixteen Tons, an Elvis compilation, and Andy William's Greatest Hits, and much more. The first album I ever bought for myself was The Association with Windy. My first 45 single, prior to that, was Otis' Dock of the Bay.

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end.

 

[orthophonic]

Yamaki, that console you pictured is a Sears Silvertone, not a Magnavox.

 

[Roadrash]

My dads Zenith console with a big satellite speaker. I'm not even sure it was a true stereo, but it served him until he bought his first real system.

 

[quiet]

Know that I think about it I listened to dads big console more than he did.

 

[SoCal Sam]

Koss headphones through family's Bogen tube receiver. Can't remember what record player we had. BSR? This was before I appreciated vintage gear. I wish I had kept that receiver.

 

[superdog]

AM radio that was on top of our fridge.The only music in the house until my mom bought me an all in one setup from Spiegal catalogue in 1977.