What Happened?! Do We Love Our Vintage Stereos More Than I thought?
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- We had a video explode with views a couple of weeks ago and it got us to wondering, "what happened?". In this video, Keven unpacks some theories on why the video did so well.
Mainly, we have you, our viewers, to thank! If you have any ideas why the video did so well, let us know in the comments. Why did it resonate with you?
Thanks again for all of the views, likes, shares, and new subscribers!
If you missed it or want to see it again, here is the link:
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If you weren't 1800 miles away I'd be buying stuff at your store, Great channel.
Thanks, appreciate it
X2!! 😂😂
Everyone who responded to the video did so because they felt as if they were, for a moment in time transported back to a simple and happy place, its good for soul to do that, well done Kevin
Thank you, Scott
I just scored a Marantz 2225 , the same receiver I had when it was first introduced . I Love it , I have a pair of Jensen speakers hooked up and it sounds Killer
I just turned 40. I didn't grow up with the kind of equipment you show on this channel, but I got ahold of a SX-535 when I was 16 and haven't used anything other than a vintage receiver since. I still have the SX-535 and is in need of severe repair but I can't bring myself to get rid of it. After watching you videos I acquired a SX-838 about a year and a half ago. I love everything about vintage stereo equipment. Thank you for all of your content!!!
Everyone’s first component stereo system gave them that same great feeling like our first bicycle. Freedom.
True. I had a kick ass Huffy!
Kevin, as a kid who grew up in the second largest metro area in the U.S. in the 1950's-1960's, the magic of stereo stores and record shops was just as strong for me as it was for you in the cornfields of Iowa. Outstanding video!
I'm 58 now, but I can still vividly recall those late 70s and early 80s, when I was just a young teenager. My cousin Richard, four years older than me, and I would spend hours together at my uncle and aunt’s house, sitting by his modest stereo. We'd listen to what’s now considered classic rock, each note filling the room with a sense of freedom and discovery. Those were the days when the music seemed to speak directly to our souls, shaping memories that still linger with me today.
Absolutely
Wow, you are the most kind, humble, thoughtful and relatable guy. I’m so thankful to wake up every Sunday morning to a new video, I truly look forward to it every weekend. Thank you so much for leading a very special forum for all us vintage audio lovers to come together to enjoy. Once again thank you for everything you do, it’s so appreciated.
Thank you, Darryl. That means a lot.
I agree! These are fond memories for me: the first system, buying my own music, listening to my favorite songs; all good!
Yeah, I've been trying to figure this out as well! 🙂That video hit on a new topic, but also, YOUR DAD came back, which was FANTASTIC news that also resonated with all of us. We are a male dominated category, so it made us all appreciate our dads just a little bit more.
Thanks Scott. Me as well. I'm taking the old man to a hockey game tomorrow. Thanks for your feedback and videos!
Thank you for another fantastic video!! Everything from that era (60's, 70's, 80's) makes one feel warm and fuzzy, but the music shaped a generation. The search to find the latest album by your favorite artist and racing home to play it. The smell of new vinyl, holding the jacket, feeling a little superior to your friends that didn't score the new album, but we didn't care as long as someone in our circle had it, we would all go over to that house to listen. It is a lot like watching a sporting event today, fellowship, camaraderie, tunes, maybe dinner. It was a social event. Day after day. And as equipment got older we would talk to it, ( c'mon o'l girl let's jam) and when it did quit there were places that would fix it in a week or so. I miss those great times!
Called my insurance lady today. While she was looking something up, it took a few seconds, she reflexively apologized for the "long wait." I told her that she didn't have to apologize because I'm a Gen Xer and we still have patience. That's a big reason why I love my vintage audio and vinyl records. It's a highly palatable antidote to today's InstaCulture. Keep doing what you're doing Kevin 🤙
Thanks for the memories ! We has Radio shack,Team Electronics, Shack electronics,the list goes on. This is the reason I collect and listen to these beautiful machines ,it keeps me young.
Good point, Thanks!
My interest in vintage audio equipment is a bit different. Back in the 70's it was popular and social to listen to the current music and attend concerts. It was a big part of my life then.
I was a poor student and couldn't afford nice audio equipment but I still remember listening to the ads on the car radio and imagining some day owning nice stuff.
About 16 years ago I started collecting vintage equipment and restoring them. Definitely a nostalgia thing. Then people started giving me items that didn't work. I discovered I enjoyed the challenge of fixing and restoring them even more that listening. Probably a bit unusual but that's my story.
Say hi to your dad.
Thank you, will do!
The music of my youth being played on a stereo system from that same era is a personal Time Machine. And I enjoy it over and over again. I get to reconnect with the mood and excitement of listening as a teenager or twenty-something.
I'm 69. I grew in northern Illinois. I got the bug listening to my brother's stereo purchased from an army px. All of his friends had similar systems. I purchased my stereo in the late 70s. I still have and listen to it. A few years ago, my grandson got the bug and gifted him a setup that I had put together and last week he was home from college and he said next year when he moves out of the freshman dorms, the stereo will be the first thing that gets placed in his apartment. There is hope for the younger generations and lure of music, and hifi will continue. It helps that he plays in a band, I guess.
Always hope :)
I'm now 59, pushing 60, and youngest of 4, and I have 2 pieces from my childhood - my parents' 1962 Airline console they bought at Montgomery-Ward before I was born, and the 1974 Pioneer stereo my sister gave me when I was 14 (in 1979) and she moved out of state. For me it's not that they're characters or entities that were my friends, they are objects, but they're part of a feeling of "home" - a familiarity, good memories, nostalgia - and they tie my current home to the home I knew growing up. To me they always sounded good and still sound good. They make me smile. Not high end, but not cheap or junky either. Someone recently asked in a FB group what junky stereo you had growing up that sounded bad. I couldn't answer that, maybe a clock radio? And monetary value only has meaning if a piece is to be sold. These pieces can be sold at my estate sale, so their market value has no meaning to me.
Just turned 60 and i grew up with several uncles and an aunt who were into music and had really cool equipment.
I found out almost a year ago that vintage hifi was even a thing and man Ive jumped in with both feet. I love it. Only regret it wasn’t on my radar sooner.
It’s the real emotion, whether for sound equipment, furniture, collector cars of all types, you name it.
It’s not just the thing, it’s the triggering of the emotion. That, and you are truly great at this! I need to stop in soon.
This brings back many memories of the days way back when, I would save every nickel to get the rig I wanted. I was in heaven. Thank you for your vids and soon I plan to make a trip to Iowa!
Im 58 and I loved going to Smithaven Mall and going to Lafayette, Numark and Lewis, Friendly Frost , Service Merchandise and checking out all the stereo equipment on the wall. I remember that the sales guy (with slick suit, narrow leather tie and cowboy boots) on the switch board between receivers, speakers, amps. So cool. Thanks for sharing the memories.
Forgot about service merchandise. You had to carry the card to the counter, lol. Thanks!
I have one of the craziest stories related to Hi-Fi in the 70s which is about 8 years before I took a real interest in it myself. For me it was always pursuit of "musicality." If I could change something in my stereo that would allow me to hear something on a favorite album that all the other systems couldn't reproduce that's what I was all about. I love this stuff, it brings me joy to even just talk about it. As for the crazy story, it's hard to know where to begin without everyone thinking I'm crazy so maybe some other time.
The best stories end with the listener thinking you might be a few degrees off, lol
Everyone loves vintage look, the simplicity of use and the sound quality.
Agree
I bought my first stereo system in 1979 when I was in the Air Force. Bought a Technics SA-500 receiver, SL-D2 Technics turntable and a set of speakers which for the life of me I cannot remember which Technics they were but it was a great system and I lost it in 1984 in a house fire. Just a few years ago I found an SA-500 receiver on eBay and had it rebuilt and it's just as great as it was in '79! Tried to get an SL-D2 turntable but they want too damned much money for them. Nobody will appreciate the classic systems like the generation that came up in the seventies! Love your channel, Kevin! Keep it up! Peace!
I remember CMC stereo, hifi buys, peaches records...I remember at the local mall the stereo store had the rack by pioneer in the window.....man I wanted that!
What a great time
I remember my first stereo. It was a present for graduating 8th grade in 1963. My first record was Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. My audio system has grown over the years. Still have vintage Sansui, Akai and Dual equipment. Thanks for the memories. In fact I just listened to Roy today at my workout!
I appreciate your channel. I'm 75, and my fondest memories as a young adult, and as an adult; revolves around Audio. From assistant sales Mgr of a Hi-Fi store; to working for Sony as one of the first employees of their new Car Stereo Division; to working as a Mfg. Rep salesman. Being in a product meeting with Bob Carver, to auditioning Infinity Prelude speakers with Sidney Harmon. It was fun. It still is fun. Thanks again for this channel
Me too! Thanks
Your store is on my bucket list. 15 hours away from Layton, UT and will make it there hopefully. I need some vintage again. Right now have a mixture of stuff, but will get a few pieces. My 1979 time frame original stereo was a Luxman receiver, JBL speakers and Kenwood cassette deck, and Pioneer turntable.
Music brought people together back then. Our personal stereo systems were a big part of that. You went to each other's house to get together and listen.
As a Minnesotan you and your store are the only reason I’d go to Iowa. 😂 Absolutely love your channel. It’s like going to a family reunion.
What great memories you brought back! I would ride my bike up to the mall every Friday after school and go to Musicland. Then I graduated and joined the Navy bought a great stereo system in Japan, a JVC 4VR-5456X receiver, Pioneer CS-911 speakers , Technics SL-1500 turntable, Teac cassette player , can’t believe I got rid of all of it. I’ll have to stop by your store and start a new system, love that you’re in Des Moines. I’m from Minnesota.
1963 dad bought me a transistor radio (still have and still cherish), 1971, a Realistic receiver, 8 track player, turntable and speakers (WOW!) some family member has them now. I have recently been buying some nice old receivers, turntables, JVC Digifine CD player and speakers from the 70's at really bargain prices-some work well and others I work on successfully (having learned schematics, soldering, testing from the internet as well as refoaming speakers). I love the old stuff, and yes, remember the old HiFi stores and salivating over the high end stuff. Love your channel!
My Marantz/Technics stereo was a gift from my Mom for my High School graduation. I will cherish, enjoy and hold on to it as long as I live.
You nailed it Kevin. When I was a kid it was World Radio, Sound Environment, Musicland and Homer's Records. When my Dad passed away last year my brother and I spent several weeks cleaning out the house to ready it for market. We found about a dozen plastic tubs stuffed with old photos. Buried deep in one of them was a Polaroid of me plopped down in a giant beanbag chair listening to my first good stereo on Christmas day 1978. Marantz 2220B, Garrard turntable and two huge Pioneer speakers. Led Zeppelin IV and You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish at my feet. That was my church. It shifted my dna and rewired my brain and to this day listening to records is my escape to my sanctuary. Analog music is better bumper stickers should be issued.
Sounds like a great time going thru those relics. Sorry about your Dad.
With regards to the "We used to love them. What changed?" video - that was my first time seeing your channel and I've been binge watching it ever since. Like others have stated, I enjoy your honesty and your whole vibe. So, what made me watch that video is that my wife and I have a 20 yo son and watching him go through his musical journey right now is really eye opening. Even though my HS/College friends are scattered all over the country, we still keep in touch and a lot it is still discussing music, bands we follow, concerts, etc. I believe we form most (not all of course but most) of our musical interests around that age of say 13 to 24/25. I did the same things you did, it was the record store, electronics store, stereo store and when used albums/tapes and later disc stores popped up, we were all over that. So, yeah, for me this video and that other video just caught me in a moment of nostalgia. Anyway, thanks for this channel, I really enjoy it.
Thank you for sharing. Music is special that way.
You are one extraordinarily thoughtful human being. Keep sharing!
Wow, thank you!
Milk crates full of albums. Dual 1229 turn table. Sony amp / receiver. JBL speakers. Still have them all in the basement. Almost wanna find a Shure cartridge for the 1229 and do it all over again. My parents used to yell at me to TURN IT DOWN. Now my wife makes the rules. Love, Love, Love your input. Thanks.
Thank you, Brian
My first stereo I ever bought was a Sansui TA300 for 200 bucks in 1980. I wasn't popular my Junior year in high school. Purchased the stereo the summer before my senior year. All of a sudden I was invited to parties. Have a nice Parasound system now but purchased a used TA-300 off Ebay and recapped it. Still sounds good,and I use it on my test bench and listen to it pretty much everyday ! What was really ingrained in my head was the smell of opening that box for the first time. Smells about as good as any good food to me. It hits me the same anytime I open up a stereo component to this day. Takes me right back to that day 42 years ago. Good times!
Kevin!! You are so correct on this!!
I’m 59 and great video Kevin. I appreciate the presentation. I grew up with a Bose 901 system with a Sherwood receiver. Well it was my dad’s. I still have the 901 speakers. They sound ok but it’s cool that I have them now. My dad also had a Sony reel to reel. I have it now. We also had a 3m eight track recorder. Lost that somewhere. Any how I always loved the looks of those old receivers. They are a work of art in my opinion. Thanks for all you do! Scott 😊
Agree with all you said. And, that Molly Hatchet album was one of my earlier purchases lol. Not sure I could listen to it now. I’ve mentioned this on other comments, other vids, some of the music we grew up with sounds pretty darned good out of a cheap car stereo. I’m not sure imagining and detail are essential to enjoying Molly Hatchet. Cheap beer might be more appropriate. Bottom line, I think some (not all) music sounds “better” on the stereos that were out around that time. YMMV.
There is some truth to that for sure!
Having a really nice stereo system was also a bit of a FLEX for my family back in the 70s. When friends would come over and see the huge speakers and the stacks of vinyl, they were impressed. And when you threw on the Ted Nugent album and selected Stranglehold? Air guitars deployed! It was just as important as having your own black and white TV set in your room! Thank you for another stellar video.
Music was always a part of my day growing up because my mom was a teen of the 1950s and she had an RCA console with an 8 track player that had that rich room filling sound that I love. It wasn't until 1976 while living in Boone Iowa when my older brother came home with a KISS 8 track, Rock and Roll Over, that I discovered how loud that console could go. Good times indeed.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you, I just had a Pioneer SX-650 delivered to my house today. Hooked it up to some Polk Audio S-4 speakers from Goodwill I got for $18.00 and it sounds amazing. I've been watching your videos for the last couple of months and wanted to relive my teen age years. I just retired a couple of weeks ago and want that music and sound in my house. Thanks again
Good Job Kevin. My wife just rolls her eyes when I’m sitting in front of the stereo with the volume kind of high. Maybe that’s why I wear hearing aids. I would love to see some kids get hooked and learn to repair this vintage gear.
I came across your videos by random, and loved the content. So I figured you were in California some where just because a store like yours just seems to fit out there. So looked you and I about fell off the couch when I seen west Des Moines. As a fellow Iowan I was stoked to see your store was only a few hours from me. I will DEFINITELY be making a vist.
Iowa is cooler than most of us give it credit =)
When I was young, my friends and I used to hang out in one of our local family owned record shops. We would ride our bicycles as soon as we got out of school and spend the whole day there listening to LP’s.
I really miss those days 😢 but they left some of the greatest memories of my youth! 😊
I have always loved vintage. I loved my das system from 1971 Pioneer SX 626. Plus his Dual 1215S. So much so I bought a Realistic SA1001 Amp. I a only had a Lab 49 turntable, but by 1980 bought a Dual 1216 used. By 1987 I bought a STA2700 Realistic receiver. I never stopped playing it. Last 20 years added 9 tables and a second STA2700 receiver. I also, play my Dads. I have CD plyers for the car.
I was captured by the Hi-Fi/music bug in the same way growing up. Only I wasn't living in a rural community. I was growing up in SF Bay Area and had a wide selection of music stores and stereo shops. Pacific Stereo was loaded with old component systems by Kenwood, SONY and Pioneer, but there were also a couple of high end boutiques like Magnolia as well as mom n' pop specialty Hi-Fi stores where the equipment was way out of my financial range. Looking back, every friend and every acquaintance had their own vintage music systems or consoles so being introduced to different brands and systems was a constant occurrence. It all changed the first time I heard a pair of Magnepans driven by Spectral amplifiers and a homemade kit preamp. The audiophile bug bit hard and I started saving up to build my personal system step by step, which was mostly Yamaha back then. To this day, I still have a soft spot for those over-powered receivers that pressurized the room effortlessly and graphic EQ's with spectrum analyzers that pulsed to the music. Even today, those vintage systems are a great introduction to Hi-Fi to pass down to newer generations who are really missing out from being fed a steady diet of compressed music streams. There will always be music lovers, and there will always be people who appreciate that music much more when played through a decent system. Vintage retailers are doing the lord's work. :)
I have a Marantz 4430 in my garage that I listen to Spotify when I am out there and it still works great. I have a Scott130 pre-am, Dynaco ST70, a Rega Planar 2 and Magnapan MG-1s as my home stereo. All sound great and I never want to part with them. I grew up just like you and I miss those times. Keep doing what you are doing.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
I remember in 1977 for my 16th birthday, my folks got me a brand new Pioneer receiver to replace the crappy one from Sears. I was in love.
Thanks!
I personally have so many similar memories to the ones you described. I even worked in a hifi shop through college which further cemented those feelings
Wow! Waiting for your Sunday morning videos are like, as a kid, waking up Saturday morning looking forward to Bugs Bunny and Woody woodpecker. My current vintage audio set up is a Marantz 2015, Dual 1209 turntable, EPI M202 speakers. My previous receiver was a Pioneer 1010, how I wish I could trade. Some of my vinyl records are labeled "Musicland" - $3.59. Ah, fond memories. As Ol' Frank said, Thanks for the memories.
I'm 53 and you're right about going to the mall when we were kids and checking out the local stereo shops ( Sound Trek, Electronics Mart, Radio Shack) Great memories. Now, I have a habit of buying as much vintage as I can afford and your channel has increased that LOL!!!. I enjoy all my equipment that you forced me to buy Kevin LOL!! Right now I'm using my McIntosh MA6100 as a preamp to my Dynakit ST-70 which is pushing a pair of Klipsch RP8000F II that sounds pretty good in my opinion. Thanks for the awesome look back on past memories Skylabs.
Thanks for watching and sharing
I love listening to my albums on my 70 & 80 vintage gear. Pink Floyd is my most favorite to listen too. Maybe someday I'll make it to Iowa from S.E. Wisconsin to check out your store, your videos are great.
The stereo shop I went to back in high school in Iowa City. Audio Odyssey. Lots of memories picking out my first audio equipment. Stereo shops are cool.
Yep. I’m 50 and my daughter is 14. As a little kid I was huge into tapes and playing them on my Hitachi boombox. Then at 14 I got into punk rock and all those bands were putting stuff out on vinyl while everyone else on major labels were putting their albums out on CD’s, so I got huge into records and not CD’s. I lost all my records to Hurricane Katrina (I’m from New Orleans) and switched to just using an iPod since I didn’t want to start all over at 30.
So a couple of years ago I started all over at 48, haha.
Now I have 6 different vintage stereo systems and a crate full of records and my 14 year old is into it too! She has a Realistic STA-84 and a pair of Advent Baby 1 speakers, an Audio-Technica turntable, a Yamaha tape deck and Kenwood 5 disc CD player (also a Walkman and a Discman!). She can stream through her receiver if she wants to but 99% of the time it’s physical media. As I’m writing this she’s playing her Weezer Blue Album CD. Most of what she listens to is 90’s music and some early 2000’s. The “newest” music she like is My Chemical Romance, a band that broke up the year she was born. And I don’t really push her musically, she mostly seeks out stuff on her own.
I might be weird, but I remember going to the stores and enjoying the sweet smell of 70’s stereo equipment cooking…. almost better than baked cookies.
Your video here spoke my language, as I too, for me in 1978 to maybe 1983 spent every moment I could in the two record stores in my local small town Tennessee mall, and we had one really cool hi fi store too. The stereo shop was exactly how you described, wood and brown everywhere, almost no lights - and the smell - you could smell the amps and all the equipment.. but I too just looked and knew asking for a demo was silly since I could not buy anything. So I settled for the best I could at radio shack for Realistic. And that little system was my life….now like you I can get about anything I want for a retro system (love my 2270) but sometimes I long for my little Realistic system that was mine, built by me! ❤
Our store smells the same too. I almost put up a sign that says "free smells" like Jimmy Johns. It smells like vintage electronics in here. Thanks!
100%!! As a young man, my parents had one of those huge console stereos, and it had some kick! I then got my first stereo, all mine, and it was a 3 in 1 Hitachi. That was awesome! I still remember walking into the "expensive room" at Lechmere's in Natick, Mass. They had the theme song to "Hill Street Blues" playing, and just the bass, the vibe.....it was something I'll never forget. Being a metalhead was awesome in the 70's and 80's! Getting the KISS Alive album, or ACDC Back in Black in 1980 was magic.
Thanks Kevin. I'm 62 years old and far away in Syracuse New York. Being a teenager in the 70s our stereos were everything. My first component receiver was a 15 W Realistic from RadioShack used in the store. To me that beautiful thing with knobs and a fully lighted radio dial was just everything. I'm pretty new to your channel so I've been watching a lot. The memories of these components just come flooding in. I'm even tempted to buy a nice vintage receiver just to light it up. No speakers or anything. And I fully agree with your philosophy that LED lights look terrific in vintage receivers. 👍🏻
Nothing wrong with that
We love our HiFi equipment the way previous generations loved their radios. Queens Radio Gaga is an excellent tribute to that.
I miss all the electronics I had back in the 70's, it was so much better that what is out there now.
Agree
I don't even have the attachment to the vintage amplifiers or much interest in getting one, but I still love the content here. Just a feel good fun channel to watch while I go through my hi-fi journey.
I appreciate that. Thanks
I can relate. I'm doing this mid 70's. The best part for me was that there were great systems to put together on every budget. I enjoyed being a step or two down from top of the line and putting my system together for much less that to my ear sounded just as good. There were so many manufacturers and price point options that it could be done. Just an incredible time of music and equipment to listen to it. Wouldn't trade it for more time if I could.
Me either! Thanks
My Dad made me aware of Hi-Fi at a very young age. His first Hi-Fi was a Heathkit preamp and tube amplifier. He had one AR2a speaker because he couldn’t afford a second one. He was in the military and we were assigned overseas. He built a second system because we left the first one in storage. He bought a pair of AR3 ($500 in 1965 dollars). He built a Harmon Kardon Citation preamp. This was coupled to a Sony 50 W/ch solid state amp. I was surrounded by high fidelity music all through my younger years.
On the note of the connection to the youth, I think I easily have that connection to my old ipod video. I have since bought replacement batteries, redid it with sdcard compatibility, and a new chassis and screen. Its theseus' ship by now but its a cherised music item from my childhood! I love all my handmedown vinyls and the merantz thats from my great uncle that I still own. I wonder likewise for my kid, but he too seems to like my music stuff!
I am 75 I grew up with a 1950ish Magnavox consol stereo mono HI-FI my dad had a dixeland jass band. My first radio was a chrystal set listened to am stations from all over the US different days different stations weather dependent. I grew up on Burl Ives, Kingston treo , Chad Mitchel treo. Wolf Man Jack ect. Sorry about spelling bad memory love your channel Cheep audio man turned me on to you. Keep up the great programing.
I'm 67. I still have the stereo I bought in the mid to late 70's. Marantz 2325, Dokorder 1120, JVC KD85. Turntable has been replaced.
Smart!
I still remember having saved up enough money to buy the Pioneer CT- F9191 at Schaak Electronics in Minneapolis. I could have got 2% off the price I negotiated if I'd worn my jammies that night. I played that deck for about 18 years. I was a stereo repair tech for a short time in those years and got the repair manual. I gave it away after those years, still working. The technology had marched on. I don't have vintage gear now... I've gone all digital. But I had some fun stuff as I grew up.
Well, I can certainly relate to what you have spoken about in this video, being a Gen X guy myself. Back when the rock music groups and singers were really talented, and they knew how to play and sing the music. Along with that, the stereo systems being made by top notch companies with quality and dependability. I really liked a kickin' set of big speakers pumpin' out the sound without distortion. Woofers that delivered the bass into the air along with crisp and clear midrange and treble. and I would just sit and listen to whatever I was playing on my 8-track, record player, cassette deck, or the local hard rock station on the tuner. I was in another place, not bothering anyone. I actually still have a bond with the old stereos I still have from years earlier I won't get rid of. It keeps the good memories alive.
Everybody's trying to roll back the clock 50 years. I had a Pioneer SX 1250 , sold it to a friend that had to have it and bought a Technics 5770 , kept my 901's . I wish I kept the Pioneer, it was beautiful just turning it on .
Okay... here's my answer.
In the late 1970s I home brewed a full stereo from the ground up. Pre-amp, EQ, Power amp, Speakers, even the stands... But I lost it in a house fire when my neighbour decided to dump frozen french fries into a bucket of boiling oil. The next stereo setup was a Luxman with Heresy speakers. I had that right up to 2005 ...
If I could go back to that original setup, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
But it's not just the equipment... The music back then was soooooo much better than today. Heck bad pressings from then were better than some of the best stuff from last week.
Add the music to the gear... and you've got both sentimental and emotional memories that just aren't going away.
The two places I would go to drool over receivers as a teenager were Pacific Stereo in the Brookfield Square mall and Flanner & Hafsoos at the Mayfair Mall
Not too far from ya on the right side of the border in MN. As young teens, we'd hover around each other's stereos like gearheads comparing V8s. These systems were personal and we built and cherished these things like offspring. Will chug down your way soon, as I attempt to rebuild that piece of my history. Thanks for the fine videos.
I commented on that video and also read many others from folks my age. You hit a nerve, Kevin, and it showed. Spending allowance and first job money on records and cassettes apparently was common. My friend and I would go to K-Mart and sort through the 50 cent 45's looking for King Records and James Brown recordings....every week. There would be a new selection each time we went and we got "cheap thrills" before that band name was a reality.
Thank you for sharing!
Good video and great channel. I would love to visit your establishment but I live in FLA…1500 miles away… oh well 😏
Thanks
I Always loved Music ,remembered looking at albums ,stereo stores,car stereos ,my fists stereo I bought jvc with eq & cv speakers !
Well sir I'm a bit more vintage than yourself.
I was just out of the Marines in '69 when my interest in listening to music peaked. I purchased a pair of Fisher speakers, a Dual turntable, and a Sansui receiver at the PX and had them shipped home from Japan.
A few years later they were sold and my current VSX-D1S and 4004 took over. The 901's were recently sold and Sonos Faber took over. I'm currently in the process of some wiring and turntable upgrades, (new brushless motor, and remote control for the second 4004 that just arrived .)
Once bitten it's hard to stop...a Soundsmith 'The Voice' is next on the wishlist.
POI...DW just "made" me buy a Dual 1229 for her collection of '78's and of course, a pair of Edifier R1280T's had to be ordered for the proper listening experience. 😂
Happy Daze...Bob & Sandra
I blame YOU!!... Kevin, for re igniting my passion for vintage receivers, speakers and re living the memories of the 70's & 80's, since I started following you I been dragging all kinds of vintage equipment in my house I recently got a Sansui g7500 which I fix myself, yes I also been learning how to fix them myself, which make it even more rewarding to be able to rescue some of this time machines that can bring some of us to our past. for all of that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
After you fix 1, its over. Very addictive :)
@@skylabsaudio absolutely I'm hook. lol :)
Our attachment to our sound equipment did not cross over to TV sets. I guess because they just changed and improved so much, that it made us buy the next best thing invented.
I can identify with being in love with your first stereo my first experience with stereo and music was my parents General electric 1966 console stereo I would lay in front of it in the living room and listen to music and all my siblings records it become like my best friend growing up had such a sentimental attachment to that piece of furniture. I got to inherited, of course overtime it needed some work, but like things were back then it also came with a manual and a schematic which I have so did a little bit of work on the chassis still sounds great to this day.
Good stuff!
Classic toys are more fun. I remember the mid-late 60's (as a child) listening and falling a sleep to my transistor am radio under my pillow. The seed was planted.
Im with you on your opinion..this may be the last generation meaning us baby boomers having that experience of home aufio..high fidelity .My dad bought me my first stereo. It was a all in one contained system. I wished i still had that. The next one i had was a Sony amplifier ni bells and whistles but boy it had bass clarity like nobody's business. My next one for over 25 years was a Pioneer 737 receiver. With homemade speakers ..replaced them with ADS 710..an excellent paring..and eventually a Sony cd player. And then 8 moved on to bigger and better systems. Greatly appreciated this post keep up the great work !!!!
I was just thinking about that scene in Ruthless People yesterday..
Vintage isn't digitally enhanced and filtered, its rawness makes me want to listen to it!
On point with this one...recall going to Brandsmart with my older brother who purchased a Marantz 2225, Dual turntable and Marantz speakers (Imperials I think, 3 way with 12" woofers). He bought the speakers after being shown some Bose 301's & he asked the salesman if he had anything 'more impressive looking' lol! I currently have a Marantz 2275 bought in part due to this stereo my brother had which I enjoyed as an adolescent/teen.
Fun!
The upside side of reaching almost 80 is that I've seen and heard a lot of evolution in sound, and enjoyed a few pieces of gear when they were realy new and had no reputation as classics, but eventually did, and are still in play today. I think never never a real 'audiophile', I liked hardware and the way it looked and 'felt', and 'sound' in general. By the early 70's I was in the upper third of the range of consumer-grade stuff - JBL, Marantz, Technics, TEAC. The closest I have to vintage today are the HK T-40 and T-60 I picked up back in 2017. It's always great fun watching your videos. Thanks!
Thanks, William
It's kind of hard to get together and share what someone just streamed. I go to a local used record store every few weeks to see the inventory. I like how vinyl is making a comeback, and with that, stereo systems. Nice to see young people in the store. I shop on Amazon regularly, but i think we miss malls. I sure miss my 70s system. I may have to buy one again.
Most music that I bought was bases of the coolest looking album artwork.
agree!
Same here my friend.
I remember being wowed by the red or blue lights on each lever of the equalizer! The more lights the more impressive it was!
Still is!
I lived in Arkansas cities in the 70s-80s. We had few TV channels and not much to do beside riding our bikes between friends houses. What did we do when we got to the other guys house? Listen to the stereo! If we went to the movies, they advertised the local record stores: "Peaches Records!,, Discount Records!,, Sooooooul City Records!"
Love it. Thanks!
Thanks again!!!!!
Thank you!
The 1960s Iowa cornfield I was in only had country and western stations, Xrock out of Little Rock Arkansas on AM radio was the only Rock that we had.
I actually bought a couple of „on sale“ cassettes before I even owned a cassette player- took me almost two years to get the money together for my first „Sankyo“ cassette deck
Been there too!
I need to make a trip to your store from Fort Worth or the next time I m in KC on business.
Thanks!
How did I guess you had decent taste in music!
I swear most people into hifi have great taste in music, although it's not necessarily always my choice of genre, its always good.
Love your videos. Is giving me inspiration to have a Sansui AU-719 recapped (especially the black flags) and serviced, although it works just fine currently. Now if I can find someone who won't hack job the thing as I just don't have time to do it myself and I don't want a terrible service job done.
You hit it right on the money good video
Thanks for watching!