I too had a crystal AM ‘radio’. I didn’t know it then, but the amount of time I spent playing with that thing confirmed I was a born geek who would devote his working life to engineering and science. Later in my early to mid-teens I, again, didn’t know I was doomed to a lifelong bank account draining passion for HiFi when I assembled my first Dynaco kits. I eventually built a system out of all Dynaco kit electronics. My pride and joy was a Stereo 400 with the optional meters. How I wish I kept it. That was at a time when my local Dynaco dealer personally delivered the kits to my house, btw. I also had no idea I was infected by upgradeitis when I purchased Frank Van Alstine’s very first products: upgrades for my Dynaco kits. Yep!
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