[Mr Rick]

 
Pssst....dont feed the MQA-supporter.

 
The Manhattan Project will put MQA in the weeds.

 

[Argo Duck]

^ First recording I bought was a Beethoven symphony - does that count? . Probably Hans Schmidt-Isserstaedt conducting the 9th.

I was 14. Class trip. Classmates were not surprised I would hang out in the classical section. I 'discovered' music two years before after hearing Beethoven's 6th symphony. The second time was the 'moment'.

 

[FLTWS]

  I have to say I'm kinda disappointed at the replies so far, I was expecting some of you saying you actually were friends at school with Beethoven or some other awesome musician

 
For me...
 

 
As far as I remember Beethoven had few, if any, friends.

 

[FLTWS]

^ First recording I bought was a Beethoven symphony - does that count?

. Probably Hans Schmidt-Isserstaedt conducting the 9th.

I was 14. Class trip. Classmates were not surprised I would hang out in the classical section. I 'discovered' music two years before after hearing Beethoven's 6th symphony. The second time was the 'moment'.

Hans Schmidt-Isserstaedt 9th , a favorite of mine.

 

[Mr Rick]

   
As far as I remember Beethoven had few, if any, friends.

 
God knows, he tried with the ladies.

 

[rkw]

  Awwww shucks, everybody's getting so nostalgic. Well, you're all in for a treat because now you can finally hear those recordings exactly like they sounded in the studio as the artist intended. Just buy the authenticated MQA mastered recording and play it on MQA hardware.

I think you may be on the wrong thread, doubt you will find many MQA supports here...
 

 
I guess my sarcasm didn't come across. I thought with this crowd an emoji wouldn't be needed.
 
btw, emoji sounds so plural. Would singular be emojo?

 

[Argo Duck]

^ Seemed obvious sarcasm to me. I enjoyed your wit. But sometimes it's hard to know who's kidding who

 

[slefty]

First LP I got (my mom bought it for me) was "Beethoven's Greatest Hits" on Columbia. Good way to get into classical music for a grade school kid in the mid/late 1960s.

First LP I got that I asked for was "E Power Biggs plays Bach Organ Favorites" (also on Columbia) shortly after getting my first LP, and after hearing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor played on some TV show.

First LP I spent my own allowance money on was "Super Session" by Bloomfield, Cooper and Stills in 1968 or 69.

All three of these got me to realize that better quality sound was important. Still have the first two, but the Super Session was part of the 700 or so LPs that were stolen back in the early/mid 1990s. Need to buy a good quality reissue, as the CD of it isn't very good.

 

[StanD]

Music has taken a long and winding road from when I was a teenager. At that time it was "I wanna hold your hand" and now it's "I want to cut off your hand, biatch." So what kinda Schiit is next to come?

 

[earnmyturns]

One of my first (maybe the first) Bartók LPs, bought like quite a few others with the proceeds of my part-time job in college, is shown below. I still own it, but through many moves I went all digital. In the meanwhile I got a good new interpretation on CD (Zoltán Kocsis/Iván Fischer), but that first one was still somewhere in my auditory memory. Just found it as a Redbook download on Presto Classical for a nice low price. Its rhythm, lightness of touch and beautiful tone came back to me and filled my musical cup, even though the recording (maybe because of the digital transfer) is somewhat lacking in soundstage and instrument separation compared with the best digital remasters I have around (such as the amazing Stravinsky Dorati/LSO/Mercury Living Presence I got recently). 
 
 

 

[HumanFly]

  Music has taken a long and winding road from when I was a teenager. At that time it was "I wanna hold your hand" and now it's "I want to cut off your hand, biatch." So what kinda Schiit is next to come?

My fave is:
****** if your legg broke bitch, hop on your good foot!
 
somewhere in there is a poetic life lesson...really deep in there

 

[KoshNaranek]

First record: High Hopes by Frank Sinatra on 45.

First LP: Funk and Wagnel's library of fine music volume 1: Beethoven 6th. Purchased for $0.69 with your $10 grocery purchase at the local ACME market (or was it the A&P?)


These were played on an RCA suitcase style record player purchased at a garage sale for $10.

 

[RickB]

My first few albums, bought as LPs in 1980:
 
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
J. Geils Band - Love Stinks
 
Only the Pink Floyd has stuck with me through the years (the album, not the original copy). 
 
Probably the first piece of music I ever bought was a Doobie Brothers' 45 of "What A Fool Believes."  

 
These were all played on my parents' console record player, which was a massive piece of furniture that I believe was wildly outdated even in 1980.

 

[shultzee]

My first two records were 45's .   Beatles Help and The  Monkees Last Train to Clarksville.

 

[Robert Wortman]

  Awwww shucks, everybody's getting so nostalgic. Well, you're all in for a treat because now you can finally hear those recordings exactly like they sounded in the studio as the artist intended. Just buy the authenticated MQA mastered recording and play it on MQA hardware.

​Not exactly.  The master tapes are many decades old.  They deteriorate just laying around.  No magic will put the lost signal back on them. That is the main reason vintage LP's can sound better than CD's.  The LP's were made when the tapes were fresh.