Vintage HiFi. Sounds great, looks cool, costs peanuts
It is amazing what you spot in a skip sometimes. Have beats fallen from grace so much since Apple bought them that people are just throwing them out?
I retrieved these two from a soggy skip while out for a run. I certainly wouldn’t have entertained the brand previously. I’m probably twice the age of the target market. Since they cost me nothing, It’s worth seeing if these are fixable and if they are any good. Continue reading “My heart nearly missed a couple of Beats”
Within a week I acquired these two pairs of headphones for very different outlays.
Both are rather nice, but quite different. Continue reading “Headphones. Open or Closed back.”
I have a number of portable audio players, Walkman and MiniDisc which use the rather convenient “gum-stick” style rechargeable battery.
It becomes less convenient when you want to charge it up. Continue reading “Battery chargers for portable audio equipment”
In defence of the Crossly Cruiser I present the Fidelity FE42 portable record player.
It’s easy for my generation to have a pop at the cheap and cheerful portable record players available from supermarkets and record shops today. As our entry to the hobby many of us used gear like this, bought from Woolworths. Let he who is without sin .. Continue reading “Fidelity FE 42 portable record player”
A good Walkman which runs on disposable batteries is a good thing to have. This was bought cheap on e-bay in the hope that it would be a simple repair.
The player was sold as faulty, citing wow & flutter. It was indeed sounding rather wobbly. Better see if I can get it going.
That was the rhetoric of the record companies back in the seventies. It was a two pronged attack on their profits. Radio and Vinyl. Continue reading “Home taping is killing music”
This was another £2 boot sale purchase. The seller told me it was working perfectly. He lied. * Continue reading “Panasonic RQ SX45 portable cassette player belt change”
My Sony WM-EX662 Cassette Walkman just doesn’t seem to work as well as my similar WM-EX550.
It has had a belt change, but still suffers from flutter. Recently it has also developed problems with the controls. This turned out to be complex to understand, but easily fixed. Continue reading “Sony Walkman WM-EX662 benefits from Aiwa parts”
Mostly, when I’m fixing old audio gear, I prevail. However, on this occasion my luck ran out.
I very nearly got this one working. Continue reading “Aiwa PX 457 portable cassette player belt change ends in tears”
Last Sunday was particularly lucky for picking up audio stuff.
This was my haul of goodies. Three Cassette players, a minidisc, remote control and a portable record player. Continue reading “Good haul at the Boot Sale”