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FISHER INTEGRATED/kef speakers/thorens turntable/esart tuner

Marantz 2252B receiver, Large Advent speakers, and a BIC 960 turntable—all purchased in 1978. The turntable died a long time ago, but the venerable Marantz is still being used in my living room and the Advents have been relegated to my basement gym. Incidentally, they both still sound great!

First via parents: Lloyds all-in-one receiver/turntable/tapedeck/speakers. Sound was so bad that, at 12 years old, I took the single 10" drivers out of the cheap boxes and made my own. First real system at 18: Thorens TD-160-B with SME arm and Shure cartridge, Technics preamp, Mitsubishi DA power amp, and Trinity Sonobull 3 speaker system with passive sub. Not great, but getting there.

HEATHKIT 15 WATT INTEGRATED HARMON KARDON BOOKSHELF SPREAKERS GARRARD TURNTABLE SHURE CARTRIDGE

Sansui 221

Mine was a 12W Knight-Kit amplifier and a Lincoln bookshelf cabinet containing an 8" Knight full-range speaker (no crossover), a Garrard type-A changer, and a Heathkit FM tuner. Neat stuff then! I guess I just told you how old I am. Today its VMPS ST3 SRE and Pass Labs and AR and Sony.

As a teenager, I scraped-up enough money to purchase a cheap, unknown receiver with integrated 8-track player and big cheap speakers. It provided loud, noisy, distorted sound, but I enjoyed it at the time. Ignorance is bliss.

EICO KIT AMP AR TURNTABLE AR3A SPEAKERS

6 years old... a phono (plastic, acoustic, 78 rpm, with screw-in steel needles, an actual tone arm connected to the resonating chamber, upon which I played mostly Golden Records. My favorite was "10 Little Indian Boys", (artists forgotten, if ever known). I think the newer version of this is "10 height challenged Native American Boys". Actually I didn't give a rip about the lyrics on that record. What was cool about it was the String Bass, which actually was audible, and had a pretty good line. After that, I branched into a tube amp and a ceramic cartridge in an old turntable. It was a flip-over cartridge, so I could play 78's 45's or the new 33.3+or-rpm LP's with almost better sound. My first high end system was a Garrard changer with a Pickering cartridge (moving magnet!) Knight 80 W. integrated amp, ADC acoustic suspension speakers. How did it sound??? By 1968 standards,and for a kid in high school with no money, good.

My very first audio component looked like a suitcase. It had a turntable that folded down in the middle and two detachable speakers on each side. I listened for hours to that piece of equipment. That was about 40 years ago.

A turntable with speakers and an amp all in one

AR 19 "Voice of the Theatre" Phase Linear amp Soundcraftsman preamp

Sansui turntable with a nice Grado cartridge, JVC integrated, and Bose 501 series IV speakers. I thought it sounded awesome.

Onkyo Tx -84 Receiver, Klipch Heresy Speakers and the Teac V-770 cassette deck.....

The year 1977, Sansui 5050 receiver (still in use), Sansui turntable/Audio Technica cartridge, Panasonic cassette deck, Tamon Speakers, and some type of 18 guage zip cord for speaker wire

Pioneer SX-780 receiver Pioneer HPM-40 speakers Pioneer CTF-500 cassette

Sears combo turntable/dubbing deck/analog tuner/speakers—a real piece of trash, but it had a loudness control. interestingly, it made me start buying vinyl instead of cassettes, but it was 1984, and I quickly switched to CD. (Now I'm wondering if I should look into vinyl again!)

Dual turntable, Sony receiver, KLH speakers, and Stax headphones. It was a cheap system, but in 1969, when I was a college student, it represented at least six months' rent and was more than I spent on my used van.

Dual turntable NAD 3020A integrated amp Boston Acoustics A150 speakrs

Harman-Kardon 430 Twin Powered receiver, NEC CD-410 CD player, Technics dual well cassette deck, Bose 201 Series II speakers, Garrard Zero 100 SB turntable (the one with the panagraph arm). Listened to many, many 80s records on that setup.

Boston Acoustics A40 Speakers A mid 70's(?) Pioneer Receiver (love the knob for the tuner) Yamaha cd player

SPEAKERS ACOUSTIC RESEARCH AR5 TURNTABLE ACOUSTIC RESEARCH AR-XB PHONO CARTRIDGE SHURE M91E ELECTRONICS JBL INTEGRATED 60 WPC AMP NO TUNER, TAPE OR WORRIES

Thorens table/Empire cart.; AR speakers; Dynaco integrated amp (kit)

Yamaha 25w receiver,yamaha speakers,cec turntable

Kit built crystal am receiver and ear plug. This was Jan-60.

Dual turntable, Eico Stereo 70 amplifier, locally made speakers using KEF drivers, zip cord speaker cable

Wow, my very first was a Sharp 50 watt receiver, a Teac tape deck, a Realistic CD player, a Realistic turntable, and a pair of Fisher speakers with the big white 15" woofers. I loved that system. I wish I still had that stuff so I could hear how bad it really sound.

It was my parents TV with round screen and a 12" speaker complete with tuner and turntable. It got me interested in my life long hobby/obsession.

Auiolab 8000a,denon 255 tuner, rega planar3, Meridian 206, Epos ES11.

Heathkit EA-2 12 Watt tube mono amplifier built from kit. Garrard low end phono changer with GE VRII cartridge Jensen 8" woofer and 3"tweeter in my own cabinet.