Taking the next BIG step…
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bobtskutter
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When I was in college (which is the step between high school and University in the UK) a friend of a friend let me play with the HiFi kit in this shop. I came away with a set of Tannoy speakers, Rotel control/power amps and a Marantz CD player. The power and clarity was unbelievable, it was playing The Prodigy Firestarter that sold the kit to me. Then at university someone in a flat below where I lived used to play their music very loud so I turned my speakers on their sides (pointing down at my floor, their ceiling), set the volume to "loud" and went out for an hour. They never played their annoying music again!
One of the power amps got damaged when I moved house and one of the speaker cross overs blew out when I powered the system up, not realising the amp was damaged. The original speakers went in the trash, the amp was repaired, but it's all been sitting in my dinning room for the last 10yrs gathering dust.
I struggle to throw things away. (Film cameras, digital cameras, old HiFi, computers, scrap wood).
Bob
One of the power amps got damaged when I moved house and one of the speaker cross overs blew out when I powered the system up, not realising the amp was damaged. The original speakers went in the trash, the amp was repaired, but it's all been sitting in my dinning room for the last 10yrs gathering dust.
I struggle to throw things away. (Film cameras, digital cameras, old HiFi, computers, scrap wood).
Bob
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Appears I'm not the only woodworker that has a 'HiFi past'...
I've had many different systems in my earlier years, but then purchased a Bang & Olufsen 5500 system in 1988 (receiver, turntable w/MMC2 cartridge, cassette, and CD player units) that once had the Master Control Link for multi-room speakers connected. Have the ADS M12s in the main room, then had B&O CX100s w/subwoofer in room 1, Phase-Tech 2-ways w/subwoofer in room 2. All still works except for the CD player- it will play the first song, make a loud 'pop', then shut off. I don't use the system very often anymore- too convenient to play music off my phone connected to a bluetooth speaker (B&O Beolit 15). Some of the speakers are now hooked up to a Pioneer receiver in the shop so still get some enjoyment out of them- I wonder what my neighbors think when I occasionally crank up Rush 2112, Boston, Van Halen, or the Who!
And yes- I still have my walnut-handled Discwasher- a record was never played without that touching it first.
Regards,
Gerald
I've had many different systems in my earlier years, but then purchased a Bang & Olufsen 5500 system in 1988 (receiver, turntable w/MMC2 cartridge, cassette, and CD player units) that once had the Master Control Link for multi-room speakers connected. Have the ADS M12s in the main room, then had B&O CX100s w/subwoofer in room 1, Phase-Tech 2-ways w/subwoofer in room 2. All still works except for the CD player- it will play the first song, make a loud 'pop', then shut off. I don't use the system very often anymore- too convenient to play music off my phone connected to a bluetooth speaker (B&O Beolit 15). Some of the speakers are now hooked up to a Pioneer receiver in the shop so still get some enjoyment out of them- I wonder what my neighbors think when I occasionally crank up Rush 2112, Boston, Van Halen, or the Who!
And yes- I still have my walnut-handled Discwasher- a record was never played without that touching it first.
Regards,
Gerald
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I have 3 separate active stereo systems running in the house. Have equipment for one more that hasn't been hooked up yet. No blue tooth, nothing modern. All old silver face and some black face. Sansui, Dual, Denon, B&W, Gallo, Technics, etc. 2 tape players, CD, 2 turntables. I can make the brick house rumble.
Wife uses modern blue tooth. Sounds like crap in comparison.
There is decent to very good value in old stereo equipment. Don't toss it. I'm always hunting for more. Look on craigslist and you'll be amazed at some of the items you'll find and prices.
Wife uses modern blue tooth. Sounds like crap in comparison.
There is decent to very good value in old stereo equipment. Don't toss it. I'm always hunting for more. Look on craigslist and you'll be amazed at some of the items you'll find and prices.
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lost the disc washer and brush long ago. I use a small Office Depot style compressed air can these days. Works well.
Back in the early 1970s, I was working in the camera department of a now-defunct major retailer, Fortunoff’s.
The large building was presented as a single entity, but different departments were owned by one half of the family and the balance, the other half. The two halves had split as a family, distrusted each other and never spoke (according to rumors).
The store hours were from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The cleaning crew came in at 8:30 each morning. Because of the distrust, a staff member of the camera department, the jewelry department and the silver departments had to arrive at 8:30 to ensure that there were no thefts.
The camera department was mainly cameras, but they also carried some high end sound equipment, including one reel to reel tape recorder/player with a demo tape.
So on the two mornings each week when I was assigned the 8:30 to 10:00 security detail, I was in a largely empty 100,000 square foot building. I would play the demo tape at a volume that could be heard in the entire store.
I can remember two of songs: Dusty Springfields “Wishing and Hoping”, and Roberta Flack’s “First Time I Saw His Face”, and right now I cannot get the Wishing and Hoping song out of my head. I suspect that when it does leave my head, it will be replaced by the Flack song. [big grin]
I worked at the store for 5 summers and I believe that the reel to reel was never sold. I listened to the demo tape probably 200 times over that 5 year span.
Correction: I just looked up the store size. It was 150,000 square feet. It does not change anything else about this post, however.
The large building was presented as a single entity, but different departments were owned by one half of the family and the balance, the other half. The two halves had split as a family, distrusted each other and never spoke (according to rumors).
The store hours were from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The cleaning crew came in at 8:30 each morning. Because of the distrust, a staff member of the camera department, the jewelry department and the silver departments had to arrive at 8:30 to ensure that there were no thefts.
The camera department was mainly cameras, but they also carried some high end sound equipment, including one reel to reel tape recorder/player with a demo tape.
So on the two mornings each week when I was assigned the 8:30 to 10:00 security detail, I was in a largely empty 100,000 square foot building. I would play the demo tape at a volume that could be heard in the entire store.
I can remember two of songs: Dusty Springfields “Wishing and Hoping”, and Roberta Flack’s “First Time I Saw His Face”, and right now I cannot get the Wishing and Hoping song out of my head. I suspect that when it does leave my head, it will be replaced by the Flack song. [big grin]
I worked at the store for 5 summers and I believe that the reel to reel was never sold. I listened to the demo tape probably 200 times over that 5 year span.
Correction: I just looked up the store size. It was 150,000 square feet. It does not change anything else about this post, however.
SRSemenza said:
Just outside the mall and sharing the parking lot with Ohrbach’s, another lane retailer that has vanished.
When I was growing up, it would have been adjacent to the outdoor ice skating rink. At that time it was an open air mall.
The first image shows it adjacent to Gimbels.
