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| Vintage Home Stereo; Inspired by the Bose thread | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 5 2007, 11:12 AM (213 Views) | |
| Jamie | Dec 5 2007, 11:12 AM Post #1 |
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Junior Carp
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Crash's Bose speaker thread got me reminiscing about the old days of pre CD component stereo systems. So, what's gathering dust in your closet? I'll start - I had a Dual Semi-automatic belt drive turntable, a Yamaha TC800GL audio cassette deck, a Monarch receiver, and the Yamaha Speakers I mentioned in the Bose thread. Still have the cassette deck, but everything else is either sold off or junked. I also had a Radio Shack Realistic 4 channel mixer for recording my own cassette mixes for my car. |
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| Kincaid | Dec 5 2007, 11:21 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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In about 1977 or so, when I was in Jr. High, I bought a Harman Kardon 330C receiver (20 watts!), KLH speakers and a Garrard turntable. I picked up a Sony cassette player a bit after that. I used to have about 220 albums. I can't remember where or when but I eventually picked up another set of speakers that were older, bigger and heavier. Quadrophenia! |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Jack Frost | Dec 5 2007, 11:54 AM Post #3 |
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Bull-Carp
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I still have a pair of floor standing Polk Audio speakers, a Marantz receiver, Denon tape deck. The Sony turntable is no longer part of the setup and was last seen in the hands of a son (who likes old things better than new things). The speakers were not super expensive, but always sounded really good to me. I always like the Marantz because I thought it had a warmer and less "electronic" kind of sound--more like a tube amp I guess. jf |
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| big al | Dec 5 2007, 12:38 PM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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My very first personal system has a Glaser-Steers record changer, a Heathkit amplifier and a Heathkit FM tuner, both tube type with some 12" speakers that I salvaged out of old TV sets. I mounted the whole lot in an old Victrola cabinet. In the mid-70s, I built a Heathkit AR-15 receiver hooked up to an AR turntable and driving a pair of JBL L65 Jubals. Over the years I added a Pioneer reel to reel tape recorder, a digital delay unit with another 2-channel Heathkit amp and back speakers, a Sony cassette deck, a Sony CD player, a Phase Linear autocorrelation filter, a Garrard pop and scratch remover (never worked well) and finally a Panasonic DVD changer. With the advent of DVD movies and 5-1 sound, I replaced the receiver with an Onkyo and added a center speaker and subwoofer. I gave the Heathkit equipment and the delay unit to one of my sons. He used the AR-15 to drive a big pair of JBL D315s and I have to say it still sounds pretty good. I also still have working VHS and Beta VCRs to watch some older movies I own. One corner of my family room is more or less a media museum. I was having trouble keeping the AR turntable working so I recently bought a new Audio-Technica turntable so I could listen to some of my old vinyl. I can't find a Shure stylus for my V15III cartridge anymore so I'm debating what to buy to replace it. I might try a Shure M97xE. Big Al |
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| Frank_W | Dec 5 2007, 12:45 PM Post #5 |
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I had one of those crazy furniture cabinet TVs, with the built in stereo, turntable, and radio tuner in the top of the unit, and the speakers built into the sides. The whole thing was maple and the TV didn't work. The speakers kicked ass, though. They were incredibly bass-y, and The Clash, "Should I Stay Or Should I Go," and Talking Heads, "Burnin' Down The House," sounded freakin' awesome through them. (Or... it could be because I was perpetually baked, at the time...) LOL
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| Kincaid | Dec 5 2007, 01:46 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Marantz, Heathkit, Onkyo - all those names s(h)ure bring back memories. When I was in college Onkyo had some of the coolest stacks of matched equipment. Now almost everything is just a glorified "boom box". |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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