show your newest vintage electronic entry !

you're right, mate - but do not consider this to be the first stereo-deck at all, it wasn't (at least this is what the web says...). and do not forget the great Uher CR-124, introduced roundabout the same time, the Uher featured Hifi stereo plus autoreverse !

 

found this Sony PS-6750 for small money. it was dusty deluxe and conservated properly by tar and nicotene - so i took it apart completely, cleaned it, took the ugly plastic-foil from the plinth and put some teak-veneer on it. the original silicone-filled mat is quite deformed, but i still had a glass-plate as replacement. instead of the original headshell, i quite like the look of my old Ortofon headshell on the carbon-arm:

 

After several years enjoying a Nak ZX-7, sold it to a buddy who wouldn't leave me alone and offered me a good price. Fell back to using my CR-1A which was fine, since my cassette operations these days is almost primarily for PB, not recording. But this came along, restored, recently, and I couldn't resist. Out of the box it sounds fantastic. Solid player.

 

Those Sony DD's are fantastic players. That's a beauty, and not easy to find.

I've been enjoying a 2251 for some time. Recently added a Graham tonearm to it, and it's a nice match.

 

yay, in the lower shelve i spec an Ela Miracord 50H ?

 

it‘s actualy 5 mm transparent acryl but you can buy proper glass ones from crystal glass as well:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/29308851572...yg5iKok4L2jZsyh3bo+cuo2tPv|tkp:Bk9SR7LN-sjRYQ

i decided that i don‘t like it and will get me a leather-mat instead.

 

Yes! Dependable as they come and at this point the only “true” idler I own(also have the hybrid Thorens TD 124).

 

Mine is actually a 50H II. The outer ring strobe was missing when I got it, but it does have adjustable speed control so I'm still able to use my own strobe to set speed accurately. It's my only fully automatic table which is a nice feature, and it tends to be my primary table for 78's, which I usually stack 5 or 6 at a time. It has a very gentle drop and I've never suffered a cracked disc.

 

Ah yes! Sorry. Yeah love that table. Also have an AR XA which I really like. And several other tables, again some listed in the profile section. I've gotten to the point where I look at classifieds and while some things tempt me now and then, I usually have real desire to buy anything. The last thing I bought recently was a restored Nakamichi 580 cassette deck. I still play cassette's quite a bit as a lot of new music is only issued that way as far as physical media goes. But turntables and speakers are my weakness.

 

Just picked up a restored Pioneer SX-440. 12 mighty watts. I couldn't resist even though the rest of my electronics zfd pretty much all vintage McIntosh and on paper outshind this little guy. But there's a story here. The 440 was the first piece of "real" audio gear I ever bought. When I was 15 years old, I was able to (with a little help from parents) buy it in 1972. I had it all through college, but finally disposed of it in my early 20's. But I got a lot of first musical listens on it in my bedroom through a pair of EPI M50 speakers, and a Dual 1019 turntable. No problem getting to levels on it that caused mom to yell "turn it down" more often then not. This one sounds great though a pair of '77 Klipsch Cornwall's, and truthfully beats my McIntosh MX110z's tuner for picking up stations. It's a nice way to regress.

 

nice score indeed

 

It is always nice to get something from your past. I have gone as far as re-buying my first camera despite it being a 126 format which you can't get film for these days. The top of my wish list now is a particular Kienzle clock my parents had throughout the 70s.

At least you knew what you had. We get a surprising number of people asking questions like "when I was a child I had a silver boombox with three knobs on the left. Any idea which model it was ?".

 

You’re right as most things from that( and many others) part of my life are not remembered. But I remember wanting my own real stereo so badly as I had been collecting records and was already pretty heavy into rock’n’roll being a dedicated listener of Boston’s WBCN and reading Rolling Stone and various other lesser pubs of the day. So when I got the job after school and summer that’s what I was aiming for. It had been on the market since ‘69 so by this time you could get it on sale as the newer similar 424 had, or was about to come out. Think I ended paying maybe $150 or so. Good memories.