Saturday, March 10, 2018 9:31:45 AM
SC, I see there's a tube collectors website, and they have a magazine called 'Tube Collector' -
http://www.tubecollectors.org/
Speaking of tubes, my dad has a Grundig Hi-Fi from the 1950s/early 60s - a large piece of furniture (see below), with AM/FM and shortwave bands and a built in record player. A lot of vacuum tubes in there, but one of them burned out decades ago. It would be fun to get it working again.
I always liked the older hi-fi / stereo equipment (1970s) when the front surfaces were made of brushed stainless or aluminum. It was so much easier to read the dials and controls, and they looked cooler too. But somewhere in the 1980s everything went to black and now you need a flashlight to read the controls. I still have and use a 1970s era Kenwood tuner/receiver, and also have a 1980s Sony system with 100 watt per channel, which at the time was a lot of power. Also a TEAC double cassette deck from the mid 1970s, and an a Ampex reel to reel, though managed to blow out one of the channels by running an electric guitar through it. Youthful exuberance I guess :o)
(looks something like this but without the round speaker holes in front)
http://www.tubecollectors.org/
Speaking of tubes, my dad has a Grundig Hi-Fi from the 1950s/early 60s - a large piece of furniture (see below), with AM/FM and shortwave bands and a built in record player. A lot of vacuum tubes in there, but one of them burned out decades ago. It would be fun to get it working again.
I always liked the older hi-fi / stereo equipment (1970s) when the front surfaces were made of brushed stainless or aluminum. It was so much easier to read the dials and controls, and they looked cooler too. But somewhere in the 1980s everything went to black and now you need a flashlight to read the controls. I still have and use a 1970s era Kenwood tuner/receiver, and also have a 1980s Sony system with 100 watt per channel, which at the time was a lot of power. Also a TEAC double cassette deck from the mid 1970s, and an a Ampex reel to reel, though managed to blow out one of the channels by running an electric guitar through it. Youthful exuberance I guess :o)
(looks something like this but without the round speaker holes in front)
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