One for those over a certain age

One for those over a certain age

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NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Thursday 15th February 2018
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techiedave said:


Nad Amp that found its way into many a system
Great shout.

I remember buying that amp - from Unilet in New Malden I think. Mission 700s speakers, Rega turntable. Brilliant - felt 'proper'.

Eventually moved (over time) to an LP12, Musical Fidelity preamp, mono blocks, Ruark speakers.... I worked on the 3 big hifi mags at the time and we could blag a lot of stuff that was sent for review - but I did actually buy the first system.

Brings back some memories seeing the NAD.

sidaorb

5,589 posts

205 months

Thursday 15th February 2018
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All these old pics of airguns reminds me of my first air pistol


Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Thursday 15th February 2018
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I still have my old Webley Falcon-->

motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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I'm still using this:


anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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This sort of thing became popular in the 70s.





Only to fall out of favour over the next decade to this type of thing:



As with everything there was the "proper" stuff or the more basic type.

S6PNJ

5,157 posts

280 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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techiedave said:
Only to fall out of favour over the next decade to this type of thing:

Still got all 3 elements of the 'stack' from my Sansui kit, amp and tuner work well, tape deck is a little sticky! The Harksound record deck (with strobe for accurate speed alignment) has sadly gone missing over the various house moves.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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If memory serves a more "proper" stacker consisted of actual seperates connected via RCA Phono plugs for the audio. There were also others that connected to each other via ribbon cable and a pesky third such as the Amstrad.
The third type were simply one unit made to look like equipment stacked on top of each other.

Gunk

3,302 posts

158 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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My parent bought one of these back in 1970’s it’s still doing Sterling service.

Great memories of Wings, Venus & Mars belting out at full volume


anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Gunk said:
Great memories of Wings, Venus & Mars belting out at full volume
Good grief Venus and Mars was actually my first "proper" album bought for me. I remember being surprised at the last track being Crossroads theme tune.

driverrob

4,687 posts

202 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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techiedave said:
Snap.
Although you seem to have lost the fragile bits.

I've just had to replace the stylus and speakers.
I use it mostly for music in the day and TV (AUX input) in the evenings.

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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driverrob said:
Snap.
Although you seem to have lost the fragile bits.

I've just had to replace the stylus and speakers.
I use it mostly for music in the day and TV (AUX input) in the evenings.
That CD player looks identical to an old Philips CD player I had (I may still have it somewhere). I assume made by Philips and re-badged?

Ginetta G15 Girl

3,220 posts

183 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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IIRC 'Matsui' was a Currys brand name.

I had a Matsui VHS recorder about 25 years ago.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Ginetta G15 Girl said:
IIRC 'Matsui' was a Currys brand name.

I had a Matsui VHS recorder about 25 years ago.
Nails it in one.
Matsui was Currys own brand
ProLine was Comets

Phillips definitely DID NOT make that CD Player for Matsui/ Currys
The Philips one the poster before had would have been of much better build quality
Around that time though Phillips made some extremely good CD players and they also owned Marantz so a lot of their electronice ended up in Marantz players and being remodelled and improved upon

Nimby

4,572 posts

149 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Still up in the loft somewhere, from the late 70's:



Sold as a kit; you had to solder all the components yourself. I went for the180 watts RMS per channel option, with Kef 104AB speakers and a Dunlop Systemdek turntable with Hadcock tonearm.


Robbo 27

3,605 posts

98 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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1980s tower stereo systems, twin tape decks with AMSS and Dolby B/C

I had a Quad valve system in the 1970s - the make not quadrophonic, fabulous sound but only 10w.

Jaw hit the floor when girlfriend FTTB said it looked boring.

The system lasted longer than she did.


anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Our TV from the 1970s

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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techiedave said:


Our TV from the 1970s
I used to sell and deliver those. smile

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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GetCarter said:
I used to sell and deliver those. smile
I used to live briefly in a caravan on a static site. I rented one off someone. Great TV watched loads of telly on it but but................
When arriving home when it was switched on it would make the loudest scariest clicking noises. Believe it was due to damp condensation whatever in a thing called the tripler ?
As I understand it the damp was causing something in the tripler rubber neck thing to short and take the quickest route ?
Does that make sense

motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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I built a Heathkit open reel tape recorder from a kit in the early 1970s:



It came as a load of discrete components, a bare PCB, cabinet, and tape deck. Took hours to build but still works to this day.

The Don of Croy

5,975 posts

158 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Our first colour television in 1973'ish, Dad relented and hired one of these;



- a massive 13 inches of diagonal pleasure (fnar fnar) that we as a family of five watched from across the other side of the living room (much the same dims as my current lounge where we watch a 42" version).

How the hell did we ever see what was going on? Better eyesight I suppose. Tuning in manually to each of the three channels, it never went wrong and lasted about 10 years iirc (before we moved out of the rental co's area).

The television picture I copied from this interesting website;

https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagetv.htm