Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

I was like that with Jazz. I never liked Jazz growing up. Only Jazz album I had was "Time Out" by Brubeck. (when I was young I liked Classical most, as well as Rock)   
Anyway, on up to 1990's and I watch "Ken Burns Jazz". Suddenly I GET Jazz. never understood before, but now I get it. I started buying Jazz on LP and CD. (Lucky too since it was a lot cheaper on LP than in the 80's) Now I mostly still listen to Classical, and then Jazz. With periods where I like a few Rock tunes. As far as music goes. Classical is like a whole new  Universe of possibilities compared to Rock. I would suggest not burning out on symphonies though!! (newbies usually start and get hooked on symphonies) The real meat of Classical is in the chamber music. Quartets, Sonatas.If all I had on a desert island was the Beethoven Piano sonatas, I would be happy. You can never run out of Beethoven..

@elizabeth ,
Please suggest a couple of Classical chamber music, quartets, sonatas, that are the Jazz equivalent of Time Out. Something that people who like Rock/Jazz/Vocals can instantly get hooked on to.

I hear ya! elizabeth

I fell in love with Jazz about 15 years ago.  Never looked back.
I still enjoy Pop, Rock and came from the Hard Rock, Metal camp as well.
Quite a few parallels between Jazz and Metal, if you listen close enough.

I think the quartet form is an interesting one for Rock and Jazz fans as it also has the (usual) four artists playing against/with one another.Quartets are one of the backbones of Classical music.
Schubert quartet: "Death and the Maiden"Beethoven "Middle Quartets’ Rasoumovsky #s 7,8,9 (there are box sets of Beethoven quartets on Amazon for like $17 for all of them. Great deal. (by Hungarian Quartet, or Tokyo Quartet) Actually cheaper to buy the whole box. I JUST BOUGHT both of the above in the middle of typing this.
I actually just ordered three Beethoven Quartet complete sets and a complete set of Beethoven sonatas. 7,7, and 9 (the nine includes Bartok Quartets, not for the fainthearted!) , sonatas, 10CDs. so 34 Classical top notch CDs off Amazon for $75. shipped.(One odd thing typical of Amazon, others like Emerson version of Beethoven Quartets, I bought before for $15 are now $35..)
One of the lovely things about Classical is interpretation can change the whole thing. So For the likes of me, having five different sets of Beethoven quartets is a good thing.

Freddy Cole, Merry-Go-Round SACD by Telarc (SACD-63493) really sounds good with my SA-10.  It was directly recorded in DSD format.