'Remember Some Of This Stuff?'

[Panther_99FS]

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(Post inspired by lifejogger)

 

[Bomber_12th]

I actually grew up around very much the same equipment - thanks to my dad - and yes, it all looks all too familiar.

No doubt, the quality of such stereos/record players/speakers is superb - having lasted this long, and still just as good as ever.

 

[rpjkw]

I remember all that stuff; grew up with it.

Now I feel older than dirt.

Bob

 

[Panther_99FS]

I just had a 1970s flashback....:d
Remember when recording tapes, you were trying like heck to make the needles on each channel peak out at exactly the same level :ques:.....

 

[NoNewMessages]

I don't know what to say. In my closet sits my mid-70s Kenwood receiver, with a turntable, big old speakers and a reel to reel. What's with the old tag??? I be dang nabbited if I'm gonna throw something out that still works. Though the turntable may need a new belt. What else to listen to the Moody Blues on, but a good turntable and stereo setup!

 

[djscoo]

I saved my parents turntable from the trash, and I've got a random assortment of vinyl I've inherited/rescued. This thread makes me want to hook it up again...

 

[oakfloor]

Yes, thats still great old Hi-fi gear, and brings back many memories when every good kid always had a marantz, and most of them are still working years later. And duel l tables were the bang for the buck. I will never forget the first time I heard a set of klipsch la scala's at about 50 watts per side, loudest stereo in town, it was.

 

[OBIO]

I love vintage/old audio equipment. No modern high price speakers can deliver the smooth, rich, full harmonics of a set of speakers housed in a solid wood enclosure. Particle/Chip board used on the new speakers does not count as solid wood. I'm talking oiled walnut, oak, pine, spruce....my older brother had a set of speakers he dug out of a dumpster that were housed in boxes inlaid with Ebony...yes...real Ebony, the super hard black wood they make (or made) clarinets out of. Those things ROCKED!

The best sounding stereo I have ever heard was the Curtis Mathis console tube type. AM/FM, Turntable, 8-Track player. Solid walnut console. 4 15-inch woofers, 4 8-inch mid-range, 4 2-in tweeters and 4 1-inch piezos. Man, that thing sound incredible. Bass you could feel a quarter mile away, highs that would have all the dogs within a mile howling. As soon as our parents left, my older brother would slide open the doors, slide out the turntable, gently remove one of his albums from its jacket and rock the country side with the rock of the late 60s and early to mid 70s.

Dad got the console as partial payment from a guy who owned a stereo and TV store. The guy's delivery van was in a wreck and Dad, a bodyman by trade, fixed it as a side job. Once the van was fixed, Dad took Mom to the store to pick out her new console stereo. She saw that big, glossy walnut console and fell in love. That was back in 74 or 75. It was still playing and sounding great all the way up until 1990 (a year after Mom passed away)...when my older sister and her trailer trash boyfriend decided to set it outside in the rain to make room for their new stereo. When Dad and I found out what they had done....well, mad was what were we for the first couple minutes...then it got real ugly from there.

OBIO

 

[OBIO]

Another thought...have you noticed that those older stereos were 30, 35, 40, 50 watts per channel...but they would shake an atom apart and sounded great all the way up to and including full volume. While modern stereos are 500 watts per channel and sound like crap pretty much at any volume.

OBIO

 

[Bjoern]

Some of that stuff looks pretty high tech for the 70s.

Totally au contraire to the stuff available behind the Iron Curtain.

Although I have to admit that this radio is extremely durable. My dad bought it with his first salary made as an engineer back in the early 70s and it is still working and currently residing in my kitchen.

 

[Lionheart]

Those were the days...

I remember when big radios had to warm up before they came on.. Same with the TV. The greatest innovation whas when they figured out 'instant on TV'. Although, they didnt tell us basically they kept it on, and it mearly turned on the screen, lol...

Anyone remember testing tubes at the tube tester machine at stores like K-mart when trying to fix your TV yourself?


:d

 

[HouseHobbit]

I am still using my Pioneer SA 6500 150 watt AMP(per channel) I got in the Late 70's and the Dual turntable and The Sony casette player I got back then too, with my Boise 901 speakers I brought in germany when I was stationed there in the ARMY..Of course I have a graphic equalizer (12 band)Pioneer also..And I still use the Pioneer Tuner that I brought with the Amp..I added a AMP meter(Radio Shack) to it all in the early 80's just to see if it really did put out 150 watts and it did..LOL..
And CD player and that stuff now added, But I couldn't think of changing..
I have a 70's Kenwood 4 channel Amp (150 watts per channel) Model Eleven, I found at a yard sell several years ago in case the Pioneer ever quits..
And a set of Jenson Model four studio speakers I got at a sell in the 80's if the Boise 901's ever quit, They are now sitting waiting with the Kenwood to be used..
But for me i do love the sound from these old units..I gress at my age some find it strange that i still Love my music..Just a love i picked up from my father, He and Mom are into Bluegrass, and me into to "Classic" Rock and folk..
One of those things that hasn't changed with time..

 

[demorier]

I remember those old type tape decks with the big spools. Take up half a cupboard just to store them.

 

[Blackbird686]

I just had a 1970s flashback....:d
Remember when recording tapes, you were trying like heck to make the needles on each channel peak out at exactly the same level :ques:.....

I still have my old TEAC reel to reel... It has 4 individual tracks and 4 of those silly "VU' meters :isadizzy:. I used it alot back in those days. It's been sittting for a long time tho, dunno if it still works or not.

BB686:USA-flag:

 

[harleyman]

Personally I think nothing sounds as good as compared to music thats pumped thru tubes...

i has old Fisher tuners and amps and them coupled together with my old Bose 901A speakers was incrediable..
I think it sounded better than the Onkio and Piniacle system I have now

 

[harleyman]

I am still using my Pioneer SA 6500 150 watt AMP(per channel) I got in the Late 70's and the Dual turntable and The Sony casette player I got back then too, with my Boise 901 speakers I brought in germany when I was stationed there in the ARMY..Of course I have a graphic equalizer (12 band)Pioneer also..And I still use the Pioneer Tuner that I brought with the Amp..I added a AMP meter(Radio Shack) to it all in the early 80's just to see if it really did put out 150 watts and it did..LOL..
And CD player and that stuff now added, But I couldn't think of changing..
I have a 70's Kenwood 4 channel Amp (150 watts per channel) Model Eleven, I found at a yard sell several years ago in case the Pioneer ever quits..
And a set of Jenson Model four studio speakers I got at a sell in the 80's if the Boise 901's ever quit, They are now sitting waiting with the Kenwood to be used..
But for me i do love the sound from these old units..I gress at my age some find it strange that i still Love my music..Just a love i picked up from my father, He and Mom are into Bluegrass, and me into to "Classic" Rock and folk..
One of those things that hasn't changed with time..

Dude STOP...My 901's came from Germany too..My wifes (X now) previous BF brought them for us from Germany...

Hint..The interior was full of packing material too...LOL

 

[Snuffy]

Ummm .... I'm still using that equipment!