Old Enough To Remember?

i had a Schwinn Continental with one of those bicycle generators on it. i moved the generator on to my New Schwinn Traveler. one night i turned on the generator and after a couple blocks it was making a weird noise so i pulled over to check it out. what i found out was that the Traveler had 27X 1 1/8 tires and the sidewall was to thin, the head on the generator had almost cut through the sidewall
 
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Many years ago I had a Fisher high end receiver/ amplifier stereo system. This was before a lot of solid state equipment and it used a lot of vacuum tubes.

At the time I rented a second floor apartment in a house. I had the Fisher amplifier sitting under a window in my bedroom. One day when I was coming home I was shocked to see a Firetruck in front of the house with the door to my apartment open. Apparently I left the stereo turned on with the window open and the wind blew the curtains into the back of the amplifier and the very hot vacuum tubes caught the curtains on fire!

My landlady was not very happy. Those old tube amps really ran hot.
 
bdalameda said:
Many years ago I had a Fisher high end receiver/ amplifier stereo system. This was before a lot of solid state equipment and it used a lot of vacuum tubes.

My landlady was not very happy. Those old tube amps really ran hot.
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I had a friend who spent a fortune on sterio equipment. McIntosh vacuum receiver/amp, Nakamichi tape deck, a turntable with a $500 hydraulically damped tone arm, tower speakers etc....... Frankly, It didn't seem to sound much different to my tin ear. If he turned it up too loud the house shook and his parents screamed at him to turn it down.
 
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I had a Maranzt sterio system, PSB speakers and a double deck tape recorder. I purchased Maxell UDXL blank 90 minute tapes by the box to make tapes I'd use in the Blaupunkd car system I had. Sound ancient looking back, but it worked.
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On my first, a Siemens compact system, I wore the tape heads down... ;)
Me hooked soon an NAD7020i, a Dual turntable, NAD5320 and a nice AIWA deck came along... and Wharfedale Diamond 3...
Except the AIWA all still existing and in working order...

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ReSTored said:
I had a Maranzt sterio system, PSB speakers and a double deck tape recorder. I purchased Maxell UDXL blank 90 minute tapes by the box to make tapes I'd use in the Blaupunkd car system I had. Sound ancient looking back, but it worked.
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I have been a dbx fan for decades. I used to record new records using it to minimize record wear.

For those who don't know, dbx is a 2:1/1:2 compression/expansion noise-reduction method.
 
ReSTored said:
I had a friend who spent a fortune on sterio equipment. McIntosh vacuum receiver/amp, Nakamichi tape deck, a turntable with a $500 hydraulically damped tone arm, tower speakers etc....... Frankly, It didn't seem to sound much different to my tin ear. If he turned it up too loud the house shook and his parents screamed at him to turn it down.
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Now you're triggering my nostalgia. My first "real" stereo system was:

Dual 1229 turntable w/fold-out base/dust cover
Shure V15 Type III cartridge
Dynaco PAT-5 control preamp kit
Dynaco AF-6 AM/FM tuner kit
SWTPc Universal Tiger amp kits (2)
Rectilinear III Highboy speakers
SWTPc Class-A headphone amp kit
Koss Pro4 AA headphones
 
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