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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 18:02:56 GMT
But its not real, hands on vintage. What i thrive on.
However Digital Eq/Tone or not an Audio enthusiast will still not use it.
Ill get mi coat.
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Post by dsjr on Jan 11, 2017 18:04:06 GMT
My first turntable was a wind-up gramophone and a stack of 78 RPM shellac discs, including Stanley Holloway ( With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm), and Beniamino Gigli ( La Donna è Mobile) when I was probably about 7 or 8 years old If you can beat that then tell us all about the wonders of the wax cylinders you played as a boy.   Yep, I went the wind-up gramophone route too in the early 60's and we even had country-dancing lessons to 78's played via one in the temporary classroom called the 'Temperance Hall.'
More importantly, a pal of mine has something of a HiFi Museum, where a goodly pile of my stuff ended up over the years, including a Garrard 401 he can't now locate  He also has a beautiful cylinder player and a box of carefully stored cylinders to play on it. Twenty odd years ago, it was strange hearing recorded voices that were probably dead nigh on a hundred years before, but of course this was before the mass culling of popular artists we've suffered over the last year or two.
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Post by Slinger on Jan 11, 2017 18:57:14 GMT
More importantly, a pal of mine has something of a HiFi Museum... He also has a beautiful cylinder player and a box of carefully stored cylinders to play on it. Twenty odd years ago, it was strange hearing recorded voices that were probably dead nigh on a hundred years before, but of course this was before the mass culling of popular artists we've suffered over the last year or two.
If he doesn't already know it this site might interest him, and you perhaps. UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive |
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Post by Sovereign on Jan 12, 2017 15:02:06 GMT
I think it was my brother that got me into hi-fi, when he did his work placement on his degree he took the £3000 that he earned and blew it all on one hi-fi system I remember my mum going bananas. I know it was mission stand mount speakers and a Marantz CD player but I can't remember what the amplifier was , he bought it from a hi-fi shop in Coventry.
When a friend of mine was selling his budget Yamaha separates Hifi system I thought it off him as well as some tannoy speakers, I paid £100 for the whole think which was probably a very good deal. I went on from there and kept on going really. When I emigrated to America I had a break for a few years but then started again when my bank account amount Allowed. However I found the most joy from hi-fi came as soon as I started to make things there is a certain satisfaction and tweakery that I really enjoy .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 16:04:01 GMT
I have had hifi in my life since I was a young child, although I first got interested when I was around 10 years old and my Grandma offered me their old system, similar to the one below;  For whatever reason my Dad didn't want me to have it, so as he was considering modernising his system, he said that if I waited a while, he'd give me his receiver and one of his cassette decks, which were a lot better than my Grandma's system so decided to wait  The bug has never really left me since then. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 14, 2017 16:43:08 GMT
Music came first via a radio.
First record With the Beatles which was played on the *Stereo* Radiogram we has
Our next door neighbour had some Nikko or Onkyo kit with big home made speakers.
That sounded a lot better than the radio or even the *Stereo* Radiogram - so I had to have my own kit
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Post by Chris on Jan 15, 2017 9:36:15 GMT
Bit of a mix for me. My Dad listened to a fair bit of music and radio plays and I used to enjoy them a lot. Being a bit mad meant I was never inside though as a youngster so a Saisho boombox was my teenage music provider up to about 14. There was a hifi shop that I used to pass and they had a Quad valve amp in there and that always grabbed my interest and fancy even though I knew NOTHING about them. There followed a rather turbulent period in my life and when that blew over a friend showed me his system and we took outprselves off to various hifi shows which reignited an interest for me - think I was about 22/23 at this point.
Kept that system for a while then started to notice that valves were pretty affordable and that hifi forums were pretty good for bargains.
Never looked back after that!
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He also has a beautiful cylinder player and a box of carefully stored cylinders to play on it. Twenty odd years ago, it was strange hearing recorded voices that were probably dead nigh on a hundred years before, but of course this was before the mass culling of popular artists we've suffered over the last year or two.
