Which system

L.V.X. wrote: Tandberg amplifier (TR something) and speakers, the signal source was a casette player, think it was Philips. Year 1979, album "The Wall" by PF.

 

L.V.X Take yer pic buddy:

Receivere Tuner Amplifier Hi-Fi FM TR 200 TR 200 Compact TR 220 TR 220 G TR 220 GC TR 1000 TR 1010 TR 1020 TR 1055 TR 2025 TR 2030 TR 2040 TR 2045 TR 2055 TR 2060 TR 2075 TR 2075 Mk II TR 2080

TUNER AMPLIFIER HI-FI FM (1969) Stereo forsterker 2 x 15 watt med FM radio. Kontroller for bass, diskant og loudness. Forhåndsinnstilling av 6 faste FM-stasjoner, og automatisk fininnstilling (AFC). Klargjordt for innplugging av stereo-dekoder. Stereo-indikator lyser ved stereo-mottaking. Ble levert i teak eller palisander. Innganger: Bånd (250 mV), Magn. pick-up (2,5 mV), Ker. pick-up (50 mV). Dimensjoner: Lengde 42,5 cm, høyde 13,5 cm og dybde 21,5 cm. Vekt: 5,1 kg. (Kilde: "Tandberg - lytt til levende lyd..." 1969) TR 200/TR 200 COMPACT (1971-74) Stereo forsterker 2 x 20 watt sinus (4 ohm). FM-mottaker (87,5 - 108 MHz) med forhåndsinnstilling av inntil 6 faste stasjoner. Muting - støydemping mellom stasjonene ved søking. Forberedt eller fullt utstyrt for stereo FM-mottaking. "Loudness"-vender. Også levert som TR 200 COMPACT med platespiller. Innganger: Platespiller (magnetisk pick-up), båndopptaker og en ekstra programkilde. Kabinett: Teak, palisander eller eik. Pris ny: Kr 1.795 (1973). Dimensjoner: Lengde 43 cm, høyde 8,7 cm og dybde kabinett 24,3 cm (+ knapper 1,8 cm). Vekt: 5 kg. (Kilde: "Tandberg 1973/74") TR 1000/TR 1010 (1972) FM receiver med stereo forsterker 2 x 35 watt (8 ohm). TR 1010 har i tillegg AM bølgebånd (mellombølge). Loudness, lavtonefilter og 2 høytonefiltre. Innganger: TAPE 1 (150-500 mV), TAPE 2 (150-500 mV), PHONO (3,6 mV). Dimensjoner: Lengde 43 cm, høyde 12 cm og dybde 30,5 cm pluss 2 cm for knapper. Vekt: 8,8 kg. Pris ny (1973): 2.745 kr. (Kilde: "Tandberg 1973/74") TR 1020 (1972) AM og FM receiver med stereo forsterker 2 x 40 watt (8 ohm). Loudness, lavtonefilter og 2 høytonefiltre. Innganger: TAPE 1 (150-500 mV), TAPE 2 (150-500 mV), PHONO (2-8 mV). Dimensjoner: Lengde 43 cm, høyde 12 cm og dybde 30,5 cm pluss 2 cm for knapper. Vekt: 8,8 kg. (Foto/kilde: Thomas J. Brekke/"Tandberg 1972/73") TR 1055 (-1975) Stereo receiver 2 x 55 watt (8 ohm) med FM og AM (mellombølge). Kontroller for bass, diskant og loudness. Lavtonefilter og 2 høytonefiltre. Innganger: TAPE 1: 150-600 mV, TAPE 2 (EXTRA): 150-600 mV, PHONO magn (cer): 2-8 mV. Dimensjoner: Lengde 44 cm, høyde 13,2 cm og dybde 31 cm pluss 2 cm for knapper. Vekt: 10 kg. (Kilde: "Tandberg Hi-Fi Stereo 75/76") TR 2045 (1978) Stereo FM receiver med utgangseffekt 2 x 45 W (8 ohm), forvrengning 0,09%. Kontroller for bass og diskant, samt loudness (bassheving) og lav- og høytonefiltre. Innganger for TAPE 1, TAPE 2 og PHONO. FM bølgebånd: 87,5 - 108 MHz. Dimensjoner: Lengde 51,5 cm, høyde 14,5 cm og dybde 32 cm pluss 2 cm for knapper. Vekt: 9,6 kg. (Kilde: "Tandberg High Fidelty" 1978) TR 2055 (1976-77) Receiver 2 x 55 watt (8 ohm). TR 2075 MK II (1977) Receiver 2 x 75 watt (8 ohm, 20 - 20000 Hz), med FM stereo og mellombølge. Utganger for 2 høretelefoner og 3 par høyttalere. Høyttalervelger med 6 posisjoner. Delte tonekontroller for bass, mellomtone og diskant. Loudness, lavtonefilter og 2 høytonefilter. 2 tape og 2 phono innganger. Dimmer for skalabelysning. Sammen med TR 2075 og TR 2080 var dette største receiver laget av Tandbergs Radiofabrikk. Dimensjoner: Lengde 51,5 cm, høyde 15,3 cm og dybde 35,3 cm pluss 2,4 cm for knapper. Vekt: 12,5 kg. (Kilde: "Tandberg Hi-Fi Stereo" 1977)

oliverstoned wrote: thius is an obsession!!! i dont mind about reviews i've heard a Rega planar 3 on a very big system (with a 1500 € Linn Karma cartrdige)and it was fanatstic. And i listen to a Linn almost everyday, several hours par day!

 

Deaf as well as daft then?

oliverstoned wrote: What is this crappy homemade turntable?! I doubt that it workd best than a LP12, even a Rega Planar3!

 

Oliver are you having a problem grasping English?

If you look back you'll see i think Rega & Linn are Tosh,Of course i don't expect you to agree cos your heads in the reviewers clouds.

That happens to be a bag of Bollox Rega'Planar' derivitive,you know Rega do manufacture the Planner for companies such as Moth,Akai,Nad etc...But there essentially the same crap.

All sh*t all the same.

Edited by Karnevil9

clemdallaway wrote: My 1st prog album was ELP Brain Salad Surgery, it was played on an early 80's Fischer stereo, i've still got it in working order lol.

 

Does it look like this

WATCH OUT WHERE THE HUSKIES GO, emdiar

Oh dear, Oh dear - first vinyl prog album would have been 'The Best Of Uriah Heep' back in 1974(ish); as it would have been played on my parents' "stereo" in those days, it would have been a Bush music centre (complete with moulded plastic lid...).

Not so much a record deck, as a lathe!

My first was Trick of the Tail, August 2003 on my Dad's Rega Planar 3 with RB 300 arm through Kef 103s. These names mean nothing to me but they've been drilled into my head because every time I wanted to listen to something I get a talk about how the system works.  But no longer! For doing well in my exams last year I got the record player! And long may I keep it. That record (followed by Wind and Wuthering) was enough to drag me away from indie and nu-metal anyway...

I had saved up a bunch of money from my newspaper delivering routes to buy the famous Yamaha receiver 1020 with the matching turntable and hand-made speakers from a friend from my father that were absolutely excellent and added some months later a cassette deck from Akai . Except for the cassette deck this set still exists and works quite fine in a friend's cottage in Collingwood , Ontario. Never a repair except for burnt fuses and lightbulb in almost 30 years. They probably don't make them like they used to.

But I listened to my first-bought Crime Of The Century on some 3-in-1 Sony deck from my dad. As I was always accaparating  it (75) , my father told me get my own and paid for a quarter of that Yamaha set.

Edited by Sean Trane

I think I have the saddest and (musically)
impoverished story of all but I swear it is true!!

Being from a household where music wasn't valued
that highly (i think this is partly responsible for my
obsession with it) I first heard recorded music on an
old Phillips tape deck, the slim portable, top loading
ones, black and silver with a chromed handle.

We used to listen to that in the car (my mother's Neil
Diamond tapes). This was about 1972/3 I guess.
That machine broke and was never replaced so I
had no facility for recording music or playing tapes or
records. Until we got an answering machine!

I used to record music from the radio into the
machine’s microphone and listen to songs i liked
played back that way again and again.
I also borrowed a copy of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club band from a friend (the machine used
regular cassettes) and first heard that album through
that machine. And folks this was about 1978.

The following year my older brother got a mono tape
player from a friend and on that machine I first heard
things in any proper kind of form - kansas
Leftoverture, AC/DC's Powerage and Back in Black,
The Police Regatta De Blanc, Led Zeppelin's In
Through the Out Door and Song Remains the Same.
It's terrible, I wish i could remember the brand name
of that machine!

Hooked, utterly hooked. Three months later I made
my dad buy me and my younger brother a Sanyo
portable stereo cassette recorder. I was at a
boarding school at the time and 'ghetto blasters'
were just making their presence felt in electronics
and you just HAD to have one. Ours was tiny and very
quiet compared to some of the monstrosities other
kids lugged around (this was pre-Walkman
people!!!) but I didn't care.

Indeed, I can distinctle recall some kid questioning
my taste in music while I was blasting out the
closing wah-wah guitar solo from Spirit of Radio - I
just sneered, passed some teenage remark about
his inferior musical intelligence and continued
grooving.

Ah yes, those were the days when rock and roll was
a secret society membership of which had to be
quested after. There was no Kazaa to download
everything you ever wanted from. Then you had to
search, hunt, scour for the records you wanted. You'd
go to bed dreaming of the cool sleeves and imagine
finding and buying those seemingly otherworldly
records. and finding them? Like wrapping your
fingers around the holy grail.

Nowadays I have an expensive, increasingly
high-end system but while I can revel in the bass
extension and the clarity of the top end and the
breadth of the soundstage, it still just doesn't seem
as exciting as slotting a new cassette of some
obscure band just arrived by mail order or sourced
by foreign school friends into a crappy tape deck and
feeling the sizzle of exicitement as those first
incendiary guitar notes arced out of the cheap
speakers and fizzed up and down your spine .

Growing old is a terrible, terrible thing

mirco wrote: Fitzcarraldo wrote: My first Prog LP was played on a friend's floor-standing radiogram with a wooden case - the sort of unit that was sold in the 1950s and 1960s. My first prog audition (ITCOCK) was in a device similary to the one described by Fitzcarraldo, . But i listen to my very first purchase in a stereo system composed  by a Garrard turntable, a Scott amplifier and Siemens speakers. Storia di un minuto, BTW.

Wow,can you describe the difference?