Vinyl

Hi,

I think the "prices" are relative, though I have some serious questions ... my receiver, that I bought in 1976 cost $400 THEN ... and it was 575W (Concept)  is the name) and it lasted me some 20 plus years until if finally had its last moment. I saw a bunch of these for sale, and all of them are the cheapies ... and NONE even list the Watt'age for the receiver. I had ESS HEIL AMT 1's and they required some power, so I assume that it would have been at least the 6.5 and above, and those are very spendy.

I'm not sure that most folks TODAY realize the difference between hearing something on a great stereo system as opposed to any kind of mp3 and headset ... let me tell you, that SW is nothing in comparison! In fact I like to joke that SW sounds like a halfway quality stereo system for folks that never had one and will never know the difference in quality.

Actually, I have two music systems myself. The proper Hi-Fi for my usual music listening from my collection, and computer as a source plus active loudspeakers for listening to new-to-me music, and when I listen experimenting with making my own versions of albums which I consider to buy as CDs.

The latter one is also an example of a music system which I think not so few people use today, and which is of lower quality than some of the typical systems in the '80s and '90s - and thus is lowering the price and quality of the average system today.

What is SW?

I think also that the vinyl revival is a factor which raises the quality and price of the average system. 

Well, for my environment and circumstance they work well enough.

Oddly, I've found the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has one of the best sound mixes to come out of my HT TV system. Doesn't matter who's performing, it hits on all cylinders every time.

Very cool!

Dug into the 'ol JD vault for this one.

My first real component stereo system from when I was 15.

TT pictured is the Hitachi PS12 which I still use.

Actually, I kind of miss the Musical Fidelity amps too, and most in their original version:

JVC seems very probable when seing the photo alone, and the rest of it sounds very well researched - anyway, looks great and reminds me of my Pioneer receiver which I had from mid-'70s to early '80s, and also have good memories of. 

It's probably this one:  https://classicreceivers.com/pioneer-sx-535

The receiver is either a Sansui, Yamaha or Panasonic I don't remember.

R2R is an Akai X-1800SD which had it's own amp because it had speakers. The silver square on the side opened up to expose the speaker. I never used it that way, always ran it thru the receiver. It also had an 8-track deck, very cool tape deck, I still have the 7" reel tapes I made.

The turntable is next to it, was a Dual TT, don't remember the model. Speakers I think were from Radio Shack, I kept them on the window shelf, you can see the wire going to it. 

On the 3rd shelf you can see some LPs, 7" R2R boxes and I think the brown case held 8tracks and cassettes.....

Fun times!!!