Re: Those wonderful 1970's

Polythene records and households that cuoldnt afford any furniture.

NT

I do not have a single item of the 70's in my possession.

I do have however, plenty of items dating back to the early part of the 20th century.

I still have my Quad amplifier and IMF monitor speakers, all still working fine.

having suffered a mains failure this morning, I dug out my battery portable radio. It still has the 1978 stickers on it that the BBC kindly gave us to mark the postitions on the dial of the 'shuffled' stations. That probably puts a date on the radio, too. (no, not Radio Two)

In 1973 I got a brand new Yamaha moped FS1E for around £60

the USA in the 60's had funnier safety announcments

I met my wife in the 70s - and I've still got her!

I've got a 1970s Kenwood tuner/amp on the desk beside me, with the quintessential wood grain effect case and glowing display (there's even a sticker on the side proudly declaring "simulated wood grain finish" :-)

It's a wonderful bit of kit; all the metal controls just "feel" right - I reckon some designer spent hours getting the clickyness of the switches, the friction on the tuning control etc. just-so.

The only downside is that one of the speaker source buttons has snapped off (it was missing when I got it from previous owners); it doesn't stop it from functioning, but it would be nice to get it cosmetically back into top condition one day. I'm not sure how hard finding some of the transistors would be - but equivalents are presumably available, and I do have the schematics for it, so should be able to keep it going for years.

cheers

Jules

Same here - but Spendors. And a couple of pairs of LS3/5a. And a Revox or two. Thorens turntable and SME arm. Got a B&D drill from the '60s still going although it was overhauled at the factory in the '70s and I think the only bit left is the body. ;-)

Wow! Has she still got her flared pants on?

In message , Doctor Drivel writes

I bet Drivel was a hippy

...Until he tried snorting coke,

... and the bubbles got up his nose

of the gay persuasion.

JGH

Yes, I have the Revox/SME combo also, purchased in the early 70s. When I returned from the US in 1993, I unmounted the arm for shipping, and in fact haven't ever put it back.

Still use my record deck quite regularly. Although mainly for transferring vinyl to digital.

(Thorens TD160/SME/Shure V15III into Arcam Alpha 10. DIY speakers from a design in HFN&RR "A no-compromise loudpeaker for the home constructor).

ICBA with that. Perhaps once I'm retired and have more time.

On a related note, I've just bought a Logitech Squeebox Duet streaming music player which seems like a nice bit of kit; it's to upgrade my Squeezebox 1, which although a nice piece of kit, has a UI from the ark.

I don't think it works like that. I have no idea how I found time to go to work :D

Still got my 1970's A&R A60 amp but it's lying unused as it's got a fault that I've never managed to fix.

I have a tape recorder in a similar state (doing nothing waiting for sufficient TUITs to accumulate)... It's a Studer which had cost over =A3400 in the mid 60's, and was sold off for a fiver in the late 70's, which was when I got hold of it. It appears to work but there's olfactory evidence of something getting rather hotter than it ought to, and I've never managed to work out what. It also needs some replacement heads... I do also have a genuine 70's tape recorder - a Ferrograph Logic 7 - which still worked fine the last time I turned it on.