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Thread Number: 85665
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
high grade home audio: 1972-82... |
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Post# 1102230 , Reply# 1 12/27/2020 at 18:24 (1,215 days old) by kb0nes  (Burnsville, MN) |
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There is a huge resurgance in the "Vintage" audio world. This is due mainly to nostalgia and the fact that all the kids that drooled over those big flagship receivers now are at a point in life where they have enough money to own one, no matter the cost!
But I chuckle that they are just receivers, by definition a receiver is a compromise box that is designed to give reasonable hifi performance to people that don't have the space, money or interest to choose seperate components. A receiver was never any brands top performing path to hifi and receivers are so limiting as far as versitality goes. And if a receiver is going to cost $2500 today, you can easily assemble a system of modern seperates that will best the old receiver in performance and reliability. But a lot of audio is all about nostalgia and agreeable distortions and imagined perceptions. The LP resurgance is a good example, tube amplifiers are another. In the end the highest fidelity perhaps isn't what makes the listener happy, but all that matters is that one enjoys the music. | ||
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Post# 1102265 , Reply# 4 12/28/2020 at 01:52 (1,215 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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Even modern stuff goes up in price. I bought a used Marantz 7010 receiver a couple of years ago. paid $500 ish, now see the same model going for $700-900. | ||
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Post# 1102283 , Reply# 6 12/28/2020 at 09:17 (1,214 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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I remember CMC Audio which was up at the nearby mall which was semi-high-end (the real high-end place in St. Louis was Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum where my father and I went to get them set up about 1987). All those receivers up on the wall, and the luxurious Marantz horizontal thumbwheel. Really classic designs. There's a fun vlogger on old and obsolete hi-fi equipment from the UK---Techmoan on Youtube.
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Post# 1102285 , Reply# 7 12/28/2020 at 09:56 (1,214 days old) by philcobendixduo (San Jose) |
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Way back when....
....I had an all Pioneer system consisting of an SX-980 receiver, an SG-9800 graphic equalizer, a PL-630 turntable, an RT-707 reel to reel and a CTF-1000 cassette deck. I purchased all of them from BEST Products - a now extinct "catalog showroom" store.
The picture here has the added Yamaha CD-1 and a Dual turntable/automatic changer. Also a Pioneer timer. The RT-707 is on a shelf below the CD player. I needed to downsize many years later so they're all gone now except for the RT-707 which I don't use anymore. I'm hanging on to it as an investment! As I get older and my hearing deteriorates, I find most anything sounds "good enough" to me! I can't tell a "high definition, low loss" audio file from an MP3.
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| Post# 1103471 , Reply# 9 1/6/2021 at 19:59 (1,205 days old) by statomatic (France) | ||
A lot of receivers and other hifi are high priced on epay but the real vintage hifi lovers don't pay that much, they prefer buying defective and fix it themselves.
Most of the fully restored vintage hifi from epay are just recapped with cheap capacitors, switches & pots barely cleaned with some spray (not good especially if that came from a blue & yellow can, the best way to ruin equipment). Collecting high end cassette decks is my other hobby along with collecting vintage washing machines. Here's some equipment from my collection, Alpage AL-300 (an excellent sounding deck but very difficult to restore), Kenwood KX-7030 (high end from the 90's, when the bpc era started), Nakamichi RX-505 (the coolest autoreverse deck ever), Pioneer CT-50R (one of the first decks I've restored), Sony TC-K777 (my main recording deck, a real masterpiece), Sony TA-AX4 & 6 (very unusual amplifiers featuring a pulse power supply instead of a common transformer), Teac V-9 (aka the chameleon), Toshiba PC-6030 (a monster cassette deck, built like a reel to reel) and TDK SA-X & That's cassettes. | ||
| Post# 1103525 , Reply# 10 1/7/2021 at 08:40 (1,204 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas) | ||
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This is the first "high end" radio set I remember. I think the Army paid $15k for each of these in the early '90s. Had decent reception, and you could even go secure so the Reds couldn't listen in.
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| Post# 1103678 , Reply# 11 1/8/2021 at 12:01 (1,203 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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I guess high grade audio would have been a signal to noise ratio of at least 90db., a channel separation of 80, distortion lower than 20%, and an output of at least 10 watts per channel@ 8 ohms. | ||
| Post# 1103778 , Reply# 12 1/8/2021 at 23:06 (1,203 days old) by Natosha_Jacobs (New York) | ||
OSD Audio 240W Commercial Amplifier
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