I moved here in MAY.... and I just finally got around to working on the upstairs stuff... unpacked the last box yesterday! Gawd I hate moving! I'll never do it again!
There's so much stuff a guy collects over the years it's just stupid! Easy if you stay in one place and just add to the pile of S....t as you go.... not so easy to move it all at once. Don't tell anyone - but some of this stuff was a little "dirty" too... So now as I find it's permanent home I'm dusting and windexing and polishing. I should be by this time next year <shoothing self in head>.
I still have my McIntosh C26 from like 1972.... don't use it, but it's sitting there...
Run a MC 7108 amp via a MX132 preamp/AV controller.... and B&W CDM1's and a pair of B&W bookshelf's for rears... can't remember what they are. Not bad music for down at the shop.
The other two pieces are unused - it's a CR 12 Multi Zone controller and the above mentioned C26 preamp.
Mark my words, when I move this year there will be one of those big orange dumpsters out in front of this joint.
I've "pared" the collection down while unpacking this time Todd... if it's not a real memory or of some real value (to me) I've tossed it. Trying to "de-clutter" and not have like everything I ever touched that had something to do with a car on the walls. Keeping it more "art" (in the beholders eyes) and the good stuff.
I still have my McIntosh C26 from like 1972.... don't use it, but it's sitting there...
Run a MC 7108 amp via a MX132 preamp/AV controller.... and B&W CDM1's and a pair of B&W bookshelf's for rears... can't remember what they are. Not bad music for down at the shop.
The other two pieces are unused - it's a CR 12 Multi Zone controller and the above mentioned C26 preamp.
And I thought my 70s Philips Hi Fi with period Fisher speakers in the garage were cool! LOL Waiting for the tubes to warm up is still kinda cool imo!
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Ha! You should have been on the "albums" and turntable text train the other day... what a hoot pulling out all that old stuff!
When my Wife & Daughter were cleaning out the attic recently, they ran across my old cassette carry case with 60 music cassettes in it. I had ... and still do have ... a wide, weird range of tastes. Ah ... memories.
When my Wife & Daughter were cleaning out the attic recently, they ran across my old cassette carry case with 60 music cassettes in it. I had ... and still do have ... a wide, weird range of tastes. Ah ... memories.
When my Wife & Daughter were cleaning out the attic recently, they ran across my old cassette carry case with 60 music cassettes in it. I had ... and still do have ... a wide, weird range of tastes. Ah ... memories.
Early '70's Bob Carver started a company called Phase Linear -- before Carver stuff ever existed. He had "Quadraphonic" preamps and amps up in the Seattle area. I still remember going up there to see what was what - and smoking a doob with him and a group of engineers... listening to their latest 400 Watt amp... You needed TWO of the amps to do "quadraphonic" and I couldn't afford TWO so I bought one and the Phase Linear 4000 Preamp... and then the coupe d'gras was the TEAC 3340 10" reel to reel that was 4 channel Quadraphonic. I blew up more speakers than I care to remember with that big ass amp!! Nobody had that kind of power back then - and the speakers just couldn't handle it. Even my JBL 99's!! Or the Marantz 7's.... oh man.... I can't believe I can even remember those names!
I loved to come home at night and put on some headphones and fire up the Teac deck and watch those reels go round and round.
I don't think today you could even buy a reel or the tape!! And the reels had to be aluminum or you just weren't kool!
This picture was taken later - because this is the apartment I first had when I moved to New York City in 1976... and if you look closely in this photo you can see the Phase Linear stuff -- and I think that was a Yamaha "tuner". LOL -- Good times back then!!
Spaced on why I brought that up! Shortly after I'd bought the Phase Linear and the Teac -- NAKAMICHI (?) came out with a high end "cassette" deck but nobody wanted that new fangled stuff! Who in their right mind would want a "cassette"? Shortly afterwards thats all we had...
Early '70's Bob Carver was started a company called Phase Linear -- before Carver stuff ever existed. He had "Quadraphonic" preamps and amps up in the Seattle area. I still remember going up there to see what was what - and smoking a doob with him and a group of engineers... listening to their latest 400 Watt amp... You needed TWO of the amps to do "quadraphonic" and I couldn't afford TWO so I bought one and the Phase Linear 4000 Preamp... and then the coupe d'gras was the TEAC 4340 10" reel to reel that was 4 channel Quadraphonic. I blew up more speakers than I care to remember with that big ass amp!! Nobody had that kind of power back then - and the speakers just couldn't handle it. Even my JBL 99's!! Or the Marantz 7's.... oh man.... I can't believe I can even remember those names!
I loved to come home at night and put on some headphones and fire up the Teac deck and watch those reels go round and round.
I don't think today you could even buy a reel or the tape!! And the reels had to be aluminum or you just weren't kool!
This picture was taken later - because this is the apartment I first had when I moved to New York City in 1976... and if you look closely in this photo you can see the Phase Linear stuff -- and I think that was a Yamaha "tuner". LOL -- Good times back then!!
Spaced on why I brought that up! Shortly after I'd bought the Phase Linear and the Teac -- NAKAMICHI (?) came out with a high end "cassette" deck but nobody wanted that new fangled stuff! Who in their right mind would want a "cassette"? Shortly afterwards thats all we had...
NYC in 1976? holy saturday night fever, studio 54, son of sam, 77 blackout batman, bet you got some stories.
Did your disco line go " come up and see my nakamichi sometime" or was it "it sounds better after my tube warms up??"
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