Music Stuff

[stormdog]

I keep planning to get a nice picture of myself next to all my audio gear for those who care. Instead, I shot a quick picture with my phone this morning before leaving for work. Thanks to my understanding partner, Danae, who doesn't mind having all this stuff in the living room.

Each piece of gear here was a thrift store find. I may spend too much time in them.

Realistic LAB-2000 linear tracking turntable. $20ish. Early '80s. Needed adjustment of optical sensors for arm movement and could use regreasing of transport mechanism. Works fine though.

Turtle Beach Audiotron network-attached music and internet radio player. $20ish. Early '00s. Fully functional.

Marantz 2270 Receiver in pride-of-place.$70. Early-mid '70s. Fully functional, except for burned out lamps. I have replaced the yellowed vellum-paper light diffuser behind the tuning dial, and plan to replace burned out lamps.

Kenwood fully digitally-controlled graphic equalizer. $20ish. Early '90s. Posi helped me fix a bad solder joint on the display.

JVC CD player, I think it's an XL-V161. Mid-'90s. Fully functional with missing headphone volume knob.

Sony CDP-CX355 300 disc changer model. Mid '90s. $40ish. Had CDs jammed in it; fully functional when removed. Missing one control knob.

Comments

[cmcmck]

The Marantz is a particularly nice piece of kit!

[basefinder]

That gear sure brings back memories. :-)

[acelightning]

Wow, that's some wonderful old stuff there! I remember when that Marantz was cutting-edge state-of-the-art :-)

(My earliest knowledge of electronic gear was actually with tubes, back in the late 1950s/early 1960s. By 1967, I was doing radio, and most things were transistorized, except for transmitter output...)