Always nice to hear about how a new audiophile got started . What I find most interesting is how your dad impacted your direction in audio . 

Consider yourself very lucky to have such a person in your life . My dad was against audio and anything that took money , whenever I bought or built something for my little hifi he would tell me I needed my head examined . 

                                                                                                                       Regards  Tim

I enjoyed your post.  As it would have been my Dad's birthday today so I thought I would say that I got my grounding in audio in a similar way.  My father built aDynakit PAS -2 preamp and Stereo 70 amplifier in the late 1950s.  To these he mated a Rec-o-Kut table and arm, a Sherwood tuner and Viking tape deck.  All of this was built into a custom Maple cabinet.  The speakers were a Klipshorn and a custom made huge box speaker for the other side.  I thought it was fantastic.  I wish I still had some of that equipment as you do, I did manage to save his favorite album and have recollected some of the great albums I remember him playing when I was a boy.  I don't build anything now, but have a system that I enjoy.

Thanks again for the great rememberance. 

Tom

I enjoyed that postie, thanks

I remember the Grace 707 and F9e...hmmm  what memories 

I got into it at 17 (now 40.. *Cough* ...something... *cough*) as a filthy, sly, dispicable backdoor method of getting into Broadcast/Music industry. 

I knew the front door was never going to be open; Me having as much celebrity and talent as the smelly end of a rotting wilderbeast corpse that ran out of something to hydrate itself in the Sahara. So fame an fortune didnt look promising - so...graduated my ass in electronics and built stuff instead. 

I'm glad to see a fellow Pink Floyd  fan, w00t