Let's not forget the DAK catalog!
How old were you when audio gear first caught your interest?
Wondering how old people were when they first started to get interested in audio gear.
I first heard of Dual and Acoustic Research when I was around 13, but it did nothing for me, however, by the time I was 15 or 16 I definitely was interested. A relative had a Dual turntable, Scott receiver, Tandberg reel to reel and Rectilinear speakers (and he still has that gear, and the Rectilinears are still in use). I remember helping him get the speakers into his apartment. I also knew of Thorens.
That’s all back in the 70’s
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Oh yeah, good syuff I recently restored two pairs of AR-2ax (I had them in my College Days, late 60’s) https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10092 And I had a Fisher 800C (500C but AM also) (sometimes called the ’Executive’) which I traded a member here for his Mitsubishi Vertical TT, LT-5V seen in one of the photos in that link above. I’ve got One 500C ready for sale, one other just needing to have the FM aligned, and a 3rd for parts, and maybe a spare faceplate, the width chopped down to fit inside a case
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all the money you had. My senior year in high school, 1964/1965 I had a part time job, a weekly budget on payday: $6. I could get 3 Mono LPs for $2. each, or 2 Stereo LPs for $3. each. Agonizing decisions, because the Stereo decision was for the future, my crappy Magnavox with a flip down TT didn't sound a whole lot different, but I knew, from my neighbor's system that when I got something better .... I wasn't asking the evil stepfather for anything, including gloves in the winter in Burlington, VT! |
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