What was your very first piece of audio equipment

sgtmick63

My very first piece of equipment was a Sansui receiver. I think it was a series 6000 or something like that. I purchased it at the PX at Long Binh Post Vietnam in 1968. I think I paid under $100 bucks for it. I can't remember what speakers I had. Also, I think the only FM station was Armed Forces Radio. That was the beginning for me.

Nightfall

Pioneer SX-6 something or other receiver followed by Acoustic Research bookies that same day.

Months of newspaper delivering.

F1nut

A transistor radio when I was a pre-teen.

I still remember it was silver colored and had a leather slip cover, but I don't recall who made it.

sgtmick63

Back in '68 I was a buck Sgt making about $300.00 a month including combat pay.

sgtmick63

Didn't own a transistor radio but did make a crystal radio back in the late 50's. I completely forgot about it. And Damn It did work.

motorhead43026

Transistor radio here as well.

voltz

My dad a turntable in a big cabinet that I could listen to during the summer thru the 60's when they were working all day

the only vinyl he had was:
Jim reeves
Patsy Cline
Marty Robbins
The Ventures!

but I did have a little AM radio!

txcoastal1

F1nut wrote: »

A transistor radio when I was a pre-teen.

I still remember it was silver colored and had a leather slip cover, but I don't recall who made it.

Same...
Probably Realistic

But if you're asking about "stereo", is would be Fisher with some Curtis Mathis speakers

msg

A little denim covered record player with mono speaker that we probably got in some thrift store. Sanford & Son theme song 45rpm that I played over and over for about a week, until...


my parents probably got sick of hearing it, and gave me the little portable radio we had, and I started listening to the FM radio. Got a department store combination stereo for Christmas later that year that came with a tuner, record player and 8-track player, with little bookshelf speakers that the foam would eventually disintegrate on. For cans, I used swiped Sansui SS-10 headphones from my dad. It was great. And the beginning of me thinking my parents were old fogies and listened to crummy music (they were nearly 10 years younger than I am now, and didn't have particularly bad taste in music. It just wasn't "cool" music to a ten yr old)

There was a lot of "little msg turn it down!" over the years to follow.
I did not own an Air Supply record at any time.

pitdogg2

Panasonic cassette player. Then moved up to a turntable receiver stereo(all in one) hand me down from mom and dad. Speakers hooked up with rca jacks. Dad had ran 50' of all of 24gauge cable to put a speaker in the kitchen.

txcoastal1

Speaking of Panasonic...had one of these too
Remember getting the Richard Pryor 8 tracks out of my step dads car

msg

We had both of those 8-track players at different times, Rick and Ron. I think I still have our Panasonic one. Ours was yellow

Lol to Richard Pryor. Mischievous kids.

machone

Transistor radio.
Used to listen to WLS out of Chicago.

Jimbo18

I went straight to "hi-fi". Some Motorola or Zenith stereo with wired speakers (maye about 24ga wire) and a cheap turntable.

warren

A crystal set with head phones. Put s piece of wire out my bedroom window as the antenna. Favorite jazz program http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pCO0K-UtDMI/Tzk7M8M9UrI/AAAAAAAAMMI/wqg4LmQPuqU/s320/Concert+-+Ad,+Trianon+Ballroom,+Chicago,+Ray+Charles,+Chuck+Willis+-+19560901.jpg

ZLTFUL

Pioneer SX-650 was a hand-me-down from my uncle along with a pair of Bolivar Speaker Works Model 18s





Those 2 pieces are what got me hooked on audio in junior high.

indyhawg

Some JC Penney stereo from that had 4 speakers. Really cool for the time I was in high school.

PSOVLSK

Rick88 wrote: »

This was mine, back in around 1976 or '77. I thought it was great.

My best friend had an Emerson portable 8-track player. We would have contests to see which would play louder and sound better. Mine always won....

I had an uncle who had one of those. I thought it was the greatest thing ever and wanted one so bad. So cool to see that picture.

izafar

Got this in middle school. This was pared with Sony Speakers that each had 6.5 active driver and 6.5 passive radiator along with 1.5" cone tweeter.

lunazul

Soundesign 8 track player, record player, AM/FM radio all in one system.
Along with a Columbia House 12 for a penny subscription.

nooshinjohn

Hitachi boombox with phono input for a linear tracking Technics SL DL5...

BlueFox

LOL. A transistor radio here too. Emerson, I think, with a brown leather case.

Derf

JCPenny all-in-one with tuner, turntable and 8 track. Then bought this model of Pioneer headphones b/c we know what parents always yelled about.

dannylightning

well little boom boxes when i was a kid.. not sure if those count lol

first real stereo was techincs receiver and CD player and i think i pair of baby advent speakrs.

[Deleted User]

not sure how far back you want to go

there is a utube of mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XrgHuE_jNs

steveinaz

1970, age 8, I got a Lloyds 8 track player for Christmas. At 10, I scored my first piece of real audio, a fischer combo thing Tuner/turntable speakers for cutting my neighbors lawn.

leftwinger57

My 1st was this Zenith drop top suitcase type thing. buttoned up you could take anywhere you went w/ an outlet. You un hooked the speakers and they gave you about 10' of separation and the turntable dropped down for playing. It held about 5 LPs and loved the thing until I got my Lafayette receiver and Dual tt w/ Criterion #100 speakers. I tried finding it but not hing was shown.This was the closest device I could find. Mine was a year or 2 newer more rounded and sleeker.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Zenith-Solid-State-50-Stereophonic-Record-Player-Phonograph-15-33-45-78-/191771012090?hash=item2ca6716bfa:g:9REAAOSw~otWhEAp

simm

A MCS digital clock radio. I got it for Christmas in either 1978 or '79 when I was 13 or 14. I still have it somewhere in a closet. It was a couple more years before I got a stereo- an all in one Magnavox.

aprazer402

1970-71 bought a console w/Garrard turntable and 8-track from W.T. Grant Co. on payments. A couple of years later upgraded to a Kenwood KR-4400 receiver, Dual 1225 w/Shure M91E, Utah speakers with 15" woofer. Much better than the console.

xsmi

1987 JVC Rack System. I still have the integrated from that system in a closet somewhere.

Stew

Rick88 wrote: »

This was mine, back in around 1976 or '77. I thought it was great.

Mine too. I was at a conference with my Dad and won one of these in a raffle. Best thing ever!