Vintage HiFi. Sounds great, looks cool, costs peanuts
So, that’s the Christmas and Birthday money spent then.
This was purchased from the antiques and vintage center at a local mill. No idea if it even works. So, now that I’ve got it home, whats the first impressions? Continue reading “Sony TC-377 Reel to Reel. First impressions”
I owned one of these magnificent systems. I taught me so much about valve electronics that I nearly ended up working for Quad.
Continue reading “Quad II Valve power amps and 22 control unit”
The whole teenager thing started with access to their own music on portable players. The Dansette was the iPod of its time. Portable and with a playlist capability.
The reason we call our records “albums” goes back a long time to the early days of records. This fine example of Gilbert and Sullivan “the Gondoliers” illustrates why.
The Sony Walkman WM-EX662 and WM-EX550 are almost identical high end portable cassette players. I have had mine apart. I took some pictures which you may find useful.
At a boot sale, I came across a high-end Sony Walkman for the princely sum of £1. A few cars down were a box of 45 cassettes for £4. As a fan of Vinyl, I thought it pertinent to give the cassette a re-evaluation.
The plinth and cover on my Dual CS505-2 turntable were rather tatty after 30 years, so I built this to smarten things up and make the form match the function.
This beauty of a valve radio was bought for just £2 from a boot sale. It’s a Roberts, valve, shortwave, and portable..
Continue reading “Roberts Radio 56462 with Amplion Convette”
Roberts Radio’s have held a Royal charter for many years, and rightly so. This has nothing to do with the fact that the Rambler model was the only radio which inmates of her majesty’s prisons were allowed to have. Continue reading “Roberts Rambler Radio at Her Majesty’s Prisons”
This beauty was acquired from a well known high street pawn brokers for £20. A bit dirty, but otherwise working fine. As usual with 2nd hand purchases the lid had to come off for a nose about inside. Continue reading “NAD 4225 Tuner. Not all it’s cracked up to be”