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Hiya doin,
Oh nice, is that a Phonola? Usta have one myself back in the day. Glued a silver dollar to the handle head to prevent skipping!
Actually, most of my friends and myself were audiophiles in the 70s and had some juicy set ups. Some even worked as commission salesmen in a high end stereo store with a full price range with lots of brands. We all got their discount price which was substantial.
I have zero pieces left, having sold my remaining JBL 88s 40 years ago, which I'd bought new and liked more than the 100s because of the bass. However, one friend still alive has a LOT of those 50 year old pleasant components in his home and it all works fine. Even has the quadraphonic set up with some of his speakers but I can't imagine him cranking things up much anymore. Sigh, ok then.
I do enjoy your being here and adding some spice to a mostly really dull bunch of foreign geezers and sorry to twang your post offtrack a bit. Just saying we kinda share (or shared) that crazy train of thought.
Martin
Fabulous system you have there, congratulations! I am extremely jealous! Mine is not in the same league I admit, but I am getting an insane amount of pleasure (err, yeah, ok!) from my 1970's Sansui based hi-fi which had not seen the light of day since around 1990 until last year when we moved from a 4 bedroom house to a 2 bedroom pensioners bungalow.
The second bedroom has became an all purpose office/music room/spare bedroom. I refurbished the turntable gently with some oil, a new belt, and new cartridge, replaced the heavy stand mounted speakers with small bookshelf ones, acquired some new old stock headphones and fitted new cables all round!
I then checked out the current price of vinyl records - are they having a laugh or what, £30, don't think I'll be getting many new ones, but there are a couple of second hand record shops in the area which I intend to visit! And with around 400 vinyl albums and an equal number of cd's and cassette tapes (remember those?) I have at least a couple of years worth of listening - just revisiting my past!
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Yep, SR222 MK2 (think they ran out or 2's then!)A Sansui SR222 by any chance? An absolutely classic if it is. Looks a nice little tidt system and Sansui were great stuff in their day.
Don't know how many albums I have but possibly quite some value in the older 1st release material. Aim to library them on Discogs and value them at the same time.
My system before the recent downsize..
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Too many boxes even if they are nice. Some on ebay at the moment
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