Short answer: musical family

My dad plays piano. My brother plays piano. I played piano and from 5th grade on have been playing trumpet. In other words, grew up with music always around.

Longer answer: family friend with insane hi-fi system.

His system was used by Mark Levinson as a demo system. Oh, that's just the stereo room. His home theater room features Cello Stradavari Masters with REL subs (2) and maxed out Theta processing with a plasma screen. Not too shabby...

He showed me "Armageddon" and with the explosions coming at me, I was hooked for life.