I agree, a nice thread. Almost a history lesson here.
When I was almost 15 I spent the summer managing a fast food place at night in Dallas, Texas. Worked all summer to buy my first real stereo and a mortorcycle.
1- Pioneer Quad reciever (It had the "too cooool" oscilloscope on the left side with 4 volume buttons for balance)
2 - 4 advent 3-way speakers with the 12" woofers on em.
3 - A Used Nakamichi Cassett deck
4 - Pioneer turntable with the fancy new needle cartridge system in it.
5 - Honda SL100 dirt bike
At the end of the summer I collected my new toys from various layaways and went home to Oklahoma. My bedroom was on the second floor in my parents house which was directly on lake keystone in Oklahoma. I had a small porch that overlooked the lake attatched to my bedroom where the speakers seemed to migrate to a lot. I almost lost it all the first week due to the lake patrol calling my parents and saying they could hear Ted Nugent, BTO and Black Sabath (big stuff in the mid 70's) across the lake from us and didn't appreciate it. LOL
I had kind of forgotten that till now.
Take care all