Hi all Audio Circle members.
I was born in 1948
(February, Friday the 13th,
that’s where my nick name Guy 13 comes from).
When I was 5 years old (1953) my father bought a Motorola black & white TV,
when I was 10 years old (1958) my father bought a two piece RCA Victor LP (33-45rpm) player, w/o built in radio.
Around the same time, my mother had a small tube AM (Only) table radio.
I remember my friend told me that he had a radio that could make you hear the commentator turning the pages of his script.
Of course at the time, I did not know it was FM with its better resolution than AM.
Color TV came (I think) around 1967 when I was 19 years old.
Around the same time, our neighbor and my father’s friend bought a big piece of furniture (Clairtone) with LP turntable (Garrard) tube amplifier and AM/FM stereo unit.
When I started working, I bough a nice Sony portable AM/FM stereo radio with wire remote control.
(I’ve paid 175 $ in 1968 that was half a month pay.)
When I bought my first (Used) car (Ford Comet 1963) I bought an 8 track tape player, I’ve paid more for the tape player, than what the car was worth.
As a matter of fact, I did not buy the car, but exchange it against a small reel to reel Sony portable recorder/player.
Later on, I followed the trend with tape cassettes, CD, Ipod, etc…
I will still hang on to vinyl, CDs and later on I will enter the wonderful word of Radio Internet Tuner, but will keep my FM stereo tuner until one day, all the transmitting stations will be shut down.
That’s it.
Guy 13
