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Your First System

This should be good!!! Most of us have been in this expensive hobby for years now and have worked our way up to components we only dreamed of. I want to know what was your first system of separate components going back as far as you can remember. My first consisted of a Pioneer SX-680 receiver, a Technics SLD-1 turntable (I think that's the right model #), a Sharp tapedeck, and KLH floorstanding speakers. I was 16 at the time and thought I was the biggest badass on the block. Now, 20+ years later I have a ML 334, Meridian 507 CD, CJ PV10A, Canton Ergo 900 speakers, and a Transparent Power Isolator 4. I'm in the process of upgrading to a ML 390. It goes without saying the IC's and speaker cables are top notch as well. I know my system is WAAAYYYYY down the foodchain compared to what I've seen here but It would be interesting to see what everyone started out with.
pcook15
mfc28412
15 posts
 
altec lancing receiver with garrard turntable built-in on top and brawn (pre ads )speakers
jax2
3,031 posts
 
Pcook15- I started with the same receiver, a Pioneer SX-680, which my dad still has and uses along with my first speakers and they still sound pretty darn good together. The rest of my first rig consisted of Advent speakers, a JVC cassette deck, and a Phillips turntable. Well, now wait a minute, I can go back a bit further to when I was even younger I had a one-box solution: a Kenner Close'N'Play turntable. Before that I may have had a musical mobile or some such thing, but it likely only played one tune, and I really don't remember the brand, or even what it looked like.

Marco
xiekitchen
819 posts
 
Garrard belt drive with throw-away shure cart., JVC integrated 30 wpc amp, Pioneer project 60 speakers, all bought in 1977 also from summers washing dishes! My old man was mad as hell because I was supposed to be saving that $$ for college. "He bought a guitar, to punish his ma.." Used to play DSOM, Yes, and Supertramp after school as loud as I could get it, before the old man came home from work and then I'd have to turn it off. Probably why I can't hear nothin above 16K now
lovesmusic
34 posts
 
1963; Scott LK72 amp kit, LT110 tuner kit, Bozak 3001 speakers, Garrard A immediately replaced with Fairchild 412 turntable and arm, Tandberg 64 reel to reel. I recently obtained a MINT Scott 340 receiver (same as above separates) and just restored a Fairchild 412. Looking for the Bozaks now.
siliab
356 posts
 
1973 - I got what I call my "Dentist's office system", so called because every dentist's office had one at the time. It consisted of a Panasonic 4 wpc receiver, and a pair of trapezoidal plastic single driver speakers that had captive wires that plugged into the back of the receiver with RCAs. It also came with a BSR 4800 changer with a ceramic cartridge. I was thrilled with this system until I bought a Yes record that made the speakers howl with every cymbal crash. This set me on a course of buying, tweaking and modifying that lasted for 25 years. I have less time for that now, but its still fun to mess around with this stuff from time to time.
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