Fire up as many brain cells as you can and try to remember who you were listening to on what back in the day. For me, my pinnacle was the era directly after I got out of the Army, starting just around the beginning of '73. I was single, had a shitload of cash due to a minor fuck-up in my mustering-out pay - an event that will never be discussed beyond that mention.
When I got home and got my first apartment, I had three priorities. A good queen bed, a comfortable couch, and finally, the most kick-ass friggin' stereo system I could put together. I started with a Marantz amp and equalizer, a Pioneer reel-to-reel, a Technics cassette deck, Garrard Z-2000B zero tracking error turntable and two Sonic custom-built JBL Olympus 'wall of sound speakers'. My neighbors in the building (especially the old guy upstairs) weren't very happy, but I was.
Those were magical days. My record collection grew to over nearly 500+ pieces - in every genre, especially jazz. Suffice to say I converted more than a few young ladies in to Miles and 'Trane fans.
Ah - great memories. Incense, black lights and lava lamps, weed, cheap wine and cool tunes. What a time to grow up in.
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I was in Japan, and the Navy Exchange had great prices. I've still got my Dual 701 turntable.
ReplyDeleteWhile stationed in Germany (got out in '74) I had a stereo system not unlike the one in the picture. Sansui receiver, 4-cannel amp & reverb, JBL speakers, Dual turntable, Sony reel-to-reel, etc. Moody Blues, Led Zep, John Mayal, Urial Heep, etc., etc. Got must of the stuff at the Rhein-Main air base stereo/camera store in Frankfurt. FTA
ReplyDeleteI can smell the Boones Farm "wine" even now. The other bonus from that time were the great concerts, it was almost like smoking was legal.
ReplyDelete76 Stationed at Okinawa, cheap prices for stereo equipment. Bad part was in a open squad bay so every night it was competing genre's of music all playing loudly till taps.
ReplyDeleteWe had a nice Fisher stereo, medium sized Fisher speakers, and a Gerrard turntable when I was a kid. Sold it to a friend 18 years later. Still worked fine. Typical Jap Crap after that. Went serious audiophile in mid 90s, still have that system today. Cost us about the price of a midsize car.
ReplyDeleteI had a one transistor radio I made from a kit. Does that qualify?
ReplyDeleteThat is a very cool set-up.
ReplyDeleteIn the late 70s, I finally was able to save and put together my first real audiophile system. Yamaha B-2 amp, Yamaha C-2 preamp, JBL 4312 speakers, a Thorens TD 166 turntable my son still uses today, an old Bell all-tube analog tuner, and a Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck. It took a couple of years to acquire it all, but I was in audio heaven. I have more refined equipment today, but still have very fond memories of that system. I owned/own every album visible in the photo. Yes is still one of my all-time favorites--The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans, and Relayer is a run of fantastic recordings that would still be hard to equal.
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