1970....I was 14 and just starting high school. I loved music. My mother was the organist in a baptist church so I ended up in the choir and singing in the church quartet and various duets trios etc..hey she was a big part of the music program. At about this time, the family bought a stereo from the local western auto. It was a coffee table with a stereo built in, which included a really cheap BSR record player and radio. One morning before I went to school, Elton was singing "Mona lisa and mad hatters" on the radio and I was mesmerized. I laid down next to one end of the stereo and listened. Not too long after that, My brother was working for a place called "walker radio" and came home with a sony reel deck with built in speakers. He had recorded "Honky chateau" one one side and Neil diamonds "Stones" on the other. I loved both. A few years later I was working in a local hospital and was able to buy my first car, a 72 dodge charger. I was constantly driving to record stores and stereo shops. I miss these places immensIey. I spent a lot of time in Team electronics and Lafayette radio. I heard my first quad system, which was all Marantz playing Essex's "Rock on". Blew me away. I was addicted to quad at that moment but could only afford a stereo which ended up being a Pioneer 7100 integrated amp, BIC 960 table, shure m91ed and some non descript brand speakers. I really wanted large Advents or if price were no object, Jbl Century 100's (I have both now). I did not experience my own quad system until the mid 90's when I picked up an Akai 80dss quad 8 track deck from an arc store along with several Q8 tapes, which included "Best of bread". I played the tape in stereo and noticed parts missing, so I got another integrated amp speakers. I've been hard on the quad trail since that time. I bought surround sacd's and dvd audio's when they first came out. Now I have a 7.1 vintage system set up. I've come a long way baby.
. I never really got off the ground with quad, and the hobby got put to the side around 2005/06.
