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I walked to and from school each day with a transistor at my ear, just like in the photo. The first headphone.
Monster Mash Lightning Striking Again, Lou Christie Surfin' Safari Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her ... Meantime my dad spun Sinatra, Crosby, Martin, Bennett, Mathis But it was the summer of 1967 when I heard Are You Experienced? that my mind exploded. I simply could not believe something could sound like that. Then they handed me the album cover, WTF?!!!!! The next day I cut school, took a bus into the city and started smoking pot. |
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Ed, I did that too!
I got one like that (maybe a bit newer generation) when I was 11 or so, and listened to all the good local MW stations, and the BBC LW stations. When you put your ear very close, you had the impression there was a bit of bass even. We've come far in this hobby!
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Some big band concerts at large dance venues with parents in the 50’s (I was 5?). My father Glen Miller albums in 60’s. At night, turned down with my ear to speaker to hear tube console radio /record player in bedroom in mid 60’s when I was a supposed to be asleep; rock and roll. First albums late 60’s on parents counsel stereo. “Portable Sears stereo”, late 60’s with rock concerts in late 60’s, The Who, Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane… etc. At college, first good component Marantz 1030 integrated. First high end amp Threshold 500… also my first loan… $5,000 in 1979? Added category after category of music each decade. Traveled the world and added international music. Now all Audio Research Reference components and Sonus Faber Traditional speakers in a large, acoustically excellent listening room.
What a long strange trip it has been… Grateful Dead.
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OMG. I remember my mom walking around with those… and I remember listening to those big old clock radios. First broadcast of “I Wanta Hold Your Hand” 1964. I was completely overwhelmed when I heard that song for the very first time on WLS Chicago, late at night 1964. Fidelity was no part of why I was overwhelmed.
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Surely somebody else's journey started like mine: a Sunday night in early 1964 making our Sunday night visit to Grandma's and me getting restless (I was eight) and wanting to go home and Grandma saying, "You sure you don't want to stay and see The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show?" Soon it will be sixty years since that night and there have been very few days without music in them since.
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