The first stereo you personally owned?

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  1. Duke Fame

    Duke Fame Sold out the Enormodome

    Location:
    Tampa, FL
    A Pioneer SX-4 Receiver and some Fisher speakers. Can't remember the brand, maybe Pioneer as well, but I had a cassette deck too. Later I got an 1986 Sony CD Player. I remember that it was narrower than the receiver and that it had Index capability although I only remember having one CD (Boston's 'Third Stage') that utilized it.

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  2. SandAndGlass

    SandAndGlass Twilight Forum Resident

    What, you're not wearing a hat! :D
     
  3. SandAndGlass

    SandAndGlass Twilight Forum Resident

    I had the previous version, the SA-500, back when I was 16.

    I had just finished spending almost all the money that I made, making pizza's, having a carpenter build me a pair of Altec Lansing A7, Voice of the Theater speakers. I got a deal, from a new local dealer on the horn's, the frequency dividing network's, drivers, and bass speakers.

    Mine cost either $79 or $89, at the time.

    I always will remember, that it was a nice little amplifier. It was rated at 13-WPC, and would play at a level of 8-Watts, before it would start to distort.

    But, 8-Watts playing rock music at close to concert levels, with the A7's, was quite an experience for my friend's and myself, back in our teens.

    I never got around to get the matching tuner. But member @F1nut has the integrated amp and the tuner. He has modded it up a bit. He still has the original boxes.
     
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  4. Larry I

    Larry I Senior Member

    Location:
    Washington, D.C.
    The first system I assembled had a Pioneer SA-9100 integrated amp, BIC 980 turntable, Shure M91ED cartridge, Magnepan MG-1 speakers and Koss Pro4aa headphones.
     
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  5. paulieb00

    paulieb00 Senior Member

    Location:
    Wisconsin
    BIC 980 turntable
    Shure M91ED cartridge
    Sansui AU-3900 integrated amp
    Sansui TU-3900 tuner
    Realistic Optimus 1B speakers
     
  6. daytona600

    daytona600 Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    Dual CS506 , Nad3020 , JR149s great little system
     
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  7. Larry I

    Larry I Senior Member

    Location:
    Washington, D.C.
    Daytona600,

    The Rogers JR149 is a really nice speaker system. I heard that someone is doing an extremely limited reissue that will be quite pricey; you can step back in time and own it again.
     
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  8. dividebytube

    dividebytube Forum Resident

    Location:
    Grand Rapids, MI
    Until I went to college, I used my dad's stereo.

    And then I got - this was 1989 - a Dynaco 70, a SAE Mark XXX preamp, and very inexpensive Technics table with a p-mount cartridge. I used my roommates cheap Omega(?) speakers (that sounded pretty dreadful). Not an auspicious start for a budding audiophile - soon after I was able to get a pair of Infinity something-or-another tower speakers. Not a good match with the Dyna 70 but an improvement nonetheless.
     
  9. JBStephens

    JBStephens I don't "like", "share", "tweet", or CARE. In Memoriam

    Location:
    South Mountain, NC
    When we had to move due to our house being torn down in 1974, us kids each got to pick a "present". I picked this.

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  10. wownflutter

    wownflutter Nocturnal Member

    Location:
    Indiana
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    Something like this but with a lot less buttons!
    I bought this with my first check I got from working in the fields when I was 12 or so. I have no idea what happened to that.
    A few years later I got a good deal on a Pioneer PL-L800 table. I didn't know anything about RIAA or phono preamps yet. I'd cobble together some sort of second hand amp with an AUX input and run it in to another cheap amp with an AUX, just to try to get some sound. I'd take it to a friends house occasionally to listen to it on his system with a phono input.
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    I eventually got a Pioneer SX780 from a hardware store that was going out of business. They used it for playing music in the store. I was probably 19 by then.
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    I was all down hill from there!
     
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  11. daytona600

    daytona600 Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    JR149 basically LS3/5a drivers in a shiny round box , bought them used for a song £30
    seen the new version & think the are £2000
     
  12. wownflutter

    wownflutter Nocturnal Member

    Location:
    Indiana
    I was wrong. It was a Pioneer SX-828
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  13. Encore

    Encore Forum Resident

    Around 1977, I had saved enough money to buy a used integrated Philips cassette player with external Philips speakers. I think the cassette player was this model. If not, it's very similar. The speakers were similar but a more plasticy version of the ones showed in the photo:

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    This was the first stereo in our house, and I still remember the exact song I first played on it after having brought it home, and what I remember is the awe-inspiring feeling of having the voice of the singer emanate from between the speakers. It felt fantastic, much better than I had expected.
     
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  14. DrZhivago

    DrZhivago Hedonist

    Location:
    Brisbane Australia
    Re-post. PBucket now wants a dosh for 3rd party photo hosting. :realmad:

    My first system. 1981 (pics are not mine)
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  15. fuzzbo

    fuzzbo Forum Resident

    Location:
    Minneapolis, MN
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    I had one of these. I used my paper route money to buy it at Kmart. It must have been around 1985 (I was 11) when I bought it, and I used it all the way through high school. I bought my first CD player in 1990 and was able to hook it up to this stereo. My younger brother still used it after I moved out. I spent a lot of time dubbing LPs and tapes that were checked out from the library or borrowed from friends.
     
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  16. KentishMan

    KentishMan Forum Resident

    Christmas '86. It was a Matsui "midi hi-fi system" that included CD, dual tape, radio tuner and a turntable. It also came with copies of Dire Straits first album, Phil Collins' "Hello, I Must Be Going" and the Bruce "Live 75-85" box set. I used the speakers from my Step-Dads old system (which I can't remember the name of) that this replaced as they were a lot beefier. Loved it all.
     
  17. Isamet

    Isamet Forum Resident

    Location:
    New York
    My father had a great KLH turntable with FM Tuner that I grew up with. But I think the pic below is the turntable I had as part of a rack system that I bought in 1983.

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  18. AmericanHIFI

    AmericanHIFI Long live analog (and current digital).

    Location:
    California
    Thank you.
     
  19. Chazz

    Chazz Music Addict

    Location:
    Southeastern, US
    This was my first stereo I bought all on my own in 1982. Prior to this I had a cheap all in one stereo with a built in 8 track player and turntable. I remember it used to sound horrible! The 1982 set up sounded like heaven to me for a few years, this is one that really hooked me!
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  20. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialist™

    Location:
    B.C.
    You're welcome. :tiphat:
     
  21. 389 Tripower

    389 Tripower Just a little south of Moline

    Location:
    Moline, IL USA
  22. EasterEverywhere

    EasterEverywhere Forum Resident

    Location:
    Albuquerque
    The Wildcat was my second record player.I got it for Christmas when I was nine years old.My first was a lot like this.
     
  23. EasterEverywhere

    EasterEverywhere Forum Resident

    Location:
    Albuquerque
    I have one of these Zenith,it's an early solid state model from 1964 or '65.
     
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  24. Fiddlefye

    Fiddlefye Forum Resident

    I grew up with a system that wasn't technically a stereo as it was mono - a Williamson design amp my father built from plans in the late 40s, huge power supply he designed himself with war surplus bits that weighed in at 85lbs by itself, single open baffle speaker, Garrard RC 80 turntable. My own first system was bought as a university music student in the mid-70s - Yamaha CA-400 integrated, Dynaco A-10 speakers and Dual 1214 turntable. After a few months the system was stolen and replaced by a CA-410, EPI M50 speakers and a Technics SL-20 turntable. I still have and love the speakers. I listen to them all the time in a kitchen system with a Technics SA-700 receiver and a Sony 5 disc CDP. Yes, 100 w/ch is probably overkill but you don't have to use all of them! Excellent tuner in the 700.
     
  25. anorak2

    anorak2 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Berlin, Germany
    My parents had a record player, reel to reel tape, and several radios since before I was born, all in mono. As a young child I "inherited" one of each, and later got a radio cassette as present, still all mono. I loved them all, but their quality was really abysmal.

    My father got a stereo in the early 1970s, and when some years later he bought a new one, he gave me the old system. That was my first actual stereo. This is the receiver:

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    It says "control device" in German, the term "receiver" was not used. I also got a Dual record player, don't remember the model, and these brand new two-way loudspeakers, still fond of them:

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    At one point I bought a used stereo cassette deck from soneone at school, so I record stuff from the radio in stereo!

    Years later I got rid of it all except the loudspeakers, and got myself several Technics components instead, including this fine record player:




    And two years later this very early CD player:

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    My current system is still all Technics/Panasonic, but most components have been exchanged several times over meanwhile, except the turntable which is still with me.
     
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