Niiiiice setup! So how's the turntable sound?

Very nice! Hafta get a new stylus for it, though.

Aww, those looked like Dynaco A25 speakers for a second there (which, if you want to buy up, can occasionally be found at a pretty good price. They may need replacement of the drivers and caps due to aging, though.)

I don't get the point of fancy audiophile stuff, personally. By the time someone can afford the fancy gear, they can't hear much above 10-12 kHz anyway.

(snicker) Too true.

Looks about like my set up before I became a bit more solvent and potentiometer scratch became an annoyance. I still have 30+ year old Pioneer speakers. About 6 Years ago the 10 inch bass speakers did not survive a playing of Oh Yeah by Yellow. Instead of tossing these speakers out (which cost a pretty penny back in the 70's) I replaced the blown speakers with an inexpensive set of car audio bass speakers for $50 and wow, the difference was amazing. The cheap car speakers sounded better than the originals and could handle much higher volumes.

(nodnods) If and when these speakers blow, I'll probably do the same.

You still don't have an 8-Track player.

I'm keeping an eye out for one. Preferably a recorder.

Used to have one; I'm one of the few people out there who has recorded an 8-track from a CD.

I've also actually done that myself!
Back when I was in high school, one of my best friends had gotten his first car hand-me-down from his grandfather. His grandad had bought a Ford Galaxy back in '55, and Grandad had pimped his ride back in the day and took very good care of it over the years. Installed his own A/C, had an AM/8track car stereo with EQ added and wired speakers in every door and in the back window.
With only AM radio we were looking for anything to play some kind of modern rock music. Luckily my dad was a used car dealer at the time, and I had amassed a nice collection of abandoned 8-track tapes cleaning cars as part-time job for my dad. Even with the likes of Boston, Journey, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, the complete set of ZZ Top albums others on 8-track we still wanted some newer rock, so we rigged his sister's CD player to the old home stereo with 8-track recorder my parents had and made two compilation tapes of our fave songs on 8-track for listening to in the car. It wasn't until after that we discovered that cassette-to-8track adapters existed and my friend bought one, so we just used our cassettes after that.

sweet beta!

J/K

That's a sweet set up.

Thankee! Got a stylus for the turntable this PM and am listening to a 50 year old jazz LP as I type this. :)

Schweet!

Waddle-doodle-doddum!

Remember when open reel tapes were the audiophile format?

Yeah. Now try and find tape for the beggars... :)

I have some 9-track data tapes. Will they work? (just kidding)

(snicker) Actually, I used to have a reel to reel which was apparently set up as a data machine... :)

Did it have a wefax (weather facsimile receiver) connected to it? I saw a TEAC connected to a WEFAX connected to a steerable UHF antenna of some sort. It was capturing images from GOES satellites, I think.

Naw, just the tape mechanism itself. It didn't work as a proper tape deck, and my father's explanation at the time was that it had been rigged as a data-type tape machine. Long since discarded a quarter-century past and then some. ;)

Nice set up!

What else do you have? What do you play your 78s on? How many records do you own?

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I use a Panasonic three-speed changer for 78s, and a Catalina portable for the 8-tracks. I also have a TEAC A-6010 reel-to-reel over at an audiophile buddy's place.

I probably have close to 150 LPs per shelf, so figure about 800 LPs, 50-60 78s, a hundred or so 45s, 75 8-tracks and dozens of cassettes... ;)

Oh, that Teac is a nice deck!

Any rock 'n roll 78s in there?

Mostly big band and novelty, though I do have a couple of rock and roll 78s on the "Variety" label with "Famous Stars of Radio And TV" on 'em, which I suspect are K-Tel spiritual ancestors (particularly since they manage to cram three tunes to a side, making them EPs of a sort)... :)

I have a few of those. They're worse than K-tel because they don't feature the original artists. They re-recorded hits of the day using no-name studio singers. Sometimes kitschy and fun though.

Yeppers! One of the local fleas has stacks of battered 78s at a buck a pop. I gotta spend a couple hours going thru 'em one of these weekends. :)

Crap, that's expensive for juked 78s... my average price is 50 cents. I once found in a garage sale 5 Elvises, a Fats Domino, a Buddy Holly and 7 other 78s all for $5.00 total! That was a lucky, lucky score though, not an aveage find. I also bought 1200 78s at $0.25 each once from an old man, but most of it was French, except for one Elvis and one shiny Ricky Nelson left behind by the previous crate digger. Records are yum! :D

Indeed! Never know what you'll find... :)

im not sure but i think i see a cheech and chong los chochos album on the far right middle shelf i could be wrong though good album though =3

and nice set up too X3

Thankee! Good call on the album; that is, in fact, part of my collection.

I'm faving this as reference for early 00s-era technology, should I need it for a comic.

Kewlies! :D

Records, I love records! I do not know what it is but the sound is warmer, more natural than the digital sound. Maybe I am delusional, but I feel like that the sound of records is like acoustic chocolate.

Definitely! There are tones and undertones that digital simply does not capture.

Exactly! Well said! I sometimes lack the vocabulary to put this into the right words, sorry for this. Anyway, it is great to meet a fellow lover of records on FA! I thought that people who love records have died out completely (I have never met anybody in the West who still owns records).

There are a few vinyl cognoscenti here on FA, if you look around.

I will, thank you very much!