What started you on your audiophile journey .

record players fascinated me and i shocked myself once playing around with a phono as a kid.

I'd say my audiophile journey has consisted of 2 phases.

Phase 1 was self-started.

At an early age, very early age, I liked music. I gravitated to buying records, record players, transistor radios. At least in part, I was invited to parties probably because I was the one that had all the music.

Then, I guess I'd say I became somewhat dormant in terms of being an audiophile.

Phase 2 was started by my brother and sister-in-law.

By brother and sister-in-law gave me an Ipod for my birthday one year. I knew about Ipods and what an Ipod was but never really paid them much attention. But once I got the Ipod and became familiar with it I became kinda fascninated with it and understood better why and how it had impacted the world.

This woke up the dormant audiophile in me.

My dad bought me an expensive Concord mono cassete recorder in the 60's and I started tapeing songs off my am/fm portable radio. When I turned 16, I bought my first component system: Sansui receiver, BSR turntable, Sony cassette deck, Teac Dolby B adapter and Rectilinear speakers. Set me back 6 months of work at 500.00. Still have the receipt to this day.

Exactly a year later, I traded up all the equipment, well you know the rest.........

Bob