Re: [MBZ] I have never seen an old console stereo like this before

So I am told. There was a really good NOVA on PBS recently about research on psychedelics that was very interesting and insightful that I highly recommend: https://www.pbs.org/video/can-psychedelics-cure-lxqulz/ -D On Dec 24, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes

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I know a guy who grows a variety of magic shrooms, purely as a hobby of course. I myself have not sampled any but I understand they are quite interesting --FT Sent from iFōn > On Dec 24, 2022, at 7:43 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > I’ll try this again with an attachment so

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I do. A friend gave us some gummy things, they were interesting... Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 9:20 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: And who lives in a state where recreational use is legal??? -D > On Dec 23, 2022, at 9:15 PM, Bob Rentfro via

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rom: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent: December 23, 2022 8:16 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: azbob...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] I have never seen an old console stereo like this before > > Yeah…I absolutely remember how good mus

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Me. A few decades ago. https://youtu.be/bdMAu-AYMGo Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: December 23, 2022 8:16 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: azbob...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] I have never seen an old console stereo like this before Yeah…I absolutely

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One word: gummies --FT Sent from iFōn > On Dec 23, 2022, at 9:16 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes > wrote: > > Yeah…I absolutely remember how good music sounded while stoned. > > AZBob, hit the weed hard in to ‘70s, haven’t imbibed since 1979. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 23, 2022,

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And who lives in a state where recreational use is legal??? -D > On Dec 23, 2022, at 9:15 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes > wrote: > > Yeah…I absolutely remember how good music sounded while stoned. > > AZBob, hit the weed hard in to ‘70s, haven’t imbibed since 1979. > > Sent from my iPhone

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Yeah…I absolutely remember how good music sounded while stoned. AZBob, hit the weed hard in to ‘70s, haven’t imbibed since 1979. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2022, at 6:41 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > Yes my memories of some of those listening sessions are somewhat

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Yes my memories of some of those listening sessions are somewhat hazy --FT Sent from iFōn > On Dec 23, 2022, at 7:53 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > Our minds were very “fuzzy” while listening to that system at the time. From > what I can recall, that is. > > -D > >> On Dec

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Our minds were very “fuzzy” while listening to that system at the time. From what I can recall, that is. -D > On Dec 23, 2022, at 7:45 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > I think that’s the one he had although my memory might be getting suggested > by that listing > > --FT >

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I think that’s the one he had although my memory might be getting suggested by that listing --FT Sent from iFōn > On Dec 23, 2022, at 7:31 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > Best friend in high school had a dad who was a very successful law practice. > Their house had the

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Best friend in high school had a dad who was a very successful law practice. Their house had the requisite “conversation pit’ of the time. He had a Pioneer quad system professionally installed around the “pit”. He lived close to school so we would often go over there at lunch and listed to the

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Vintage Audio has far more than it’s share of BS, I personally think much of the “high end” equipment is high end because it costs so much, and much of it is pure fashion (or more bluntly, affectation, like using a monocle or wearing spats). This attitude is also a problem in the “hot rod”

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A buddy in my dorm had some money I think in a trust after his dad died, and he was in the Natural Guard too so made some $$ from that. He was always upgrading his hifi system. Quadrophonic came out and he bought a system. Some huge receiver putting out a couple hundred watts, a quad

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I have a pair of DCM Time Frames on the 70” TV in the family room. Thanks to MI Mitch for pointing them out to me on eBay or CL (I can’t recall which one) so I could snag them. A Denon AV receiver drives them and handles all the switching between the TV, Apple TV, BluRay and OTA inputs. Can’t

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> If you’re looking for theatrical surround sound that shakes your seats > they’re not the choice, or you augment them with a subwoofer. Several good speakers can be described that way, including the DCM Time Frames I use in the listening room. I have a bi-amped (through a Richter Scale

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Found some pictures of one: https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-1970s-Heathkit-Spotter-Model/dp/B06XY6HD7J Looks like there are a bunch on eBay - the shipping is more than the ask, too. -D On Dec 23, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: Heathkit fish

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Agreed. You really have to have the right space for them and place them properly. There’s a guy who lives close to me that has trafficked in planar speakers of all flavors who I connected with at the time (he still does it, I see his stuff on FBM occasionally). He gave me a lot of good advice

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> Heathkit fish finder It had a rotating disk with a Nixie tube on it or > something like that Ah, we had one too. I'd forgotten about it. Very simple device. Just a spinning disk with a neon lamp mounted at the rim, coupled through two carbon brushes on the axle. The circuit would

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> Magnepan speakers were pretty amazing if they were in the right space. The > average home listening room was not the right space, however. Planar speakers like those work very well, and are quite fussy as to room dimensions and placement. But if you can set them up right, little can beat them

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People still pay stupid money for vintage audio. I dabbled some years back when I came into possession of a Fisher receiver, a Soundcraftsman equalizer and power amp and a pair of Magnepan planar speakers, but it didn’t take long for me to realize that a car hobby would be far less expensive

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Here is the RCA that was my grandmothers, it had all 4 speeds. I need to find somebody that can work on it. I did find a place that works in vintage equipment but the reviews all seem to talk about high end stuff rather that these things. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2022, at 1:06 PM,

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My dad was an electronics engineer (ITT Fort Wayne!). He was always screwing around with our various tube TVs and some old tube radio that was fairly ancient. I remember going with him to an “electronics” shop in town that had millions of tubes in this old building, shelves floor to ceiling. It

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I think both of mine have a 16 setting, but I have never seen a 16rpm record before. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > Wow I've never heard of 16 RPM records. Were they common? I'm guessing maybe > they were for spoken

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Marantz is probably held in less esteem/regard than it was in the past, but their tube equipment still commands high prices from audiophiles. -D On Dec 23, 2022, at 2:26 PM, Andrew Strasfogel mailto:astrasfo...@gmail.com>> wrote: Is Marantz still the best name in tuners? On Fri, Dec 23, 2022

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Is Marantz still the best name in tuners? On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 2:06 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The great aunt’s Zenith played 78s, of which she had a bunch. I > specifically recall Doris Day’s rendition of “Put ‘em in a box, tie ‘em > with a ribbon” being

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The great aunt’s Zenith played 78s, of which she had a bunch. I specifically recall Doris Day’s rendition of “Put ‘em in a box, tie ‘em with a ribbon” being one of her 78s. -D > On Dec 23, 2022, at 1:53 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes > wrote: > >> Wow I've never heard of 16 RPM records. Were

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> Wow I've never heard of 16 RPM records. Were they common? I'm guessing maybe > they were for spoken word/audio-book type stuff? Exactly. Not common at all, I'm not sure I ever saw one, except _perhaps_ once in grade school they played one that had some kind of pedagogical crap on it... It

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Dad bought a number of Heathkits. He was not a particularly meticulous assembler, and they often didn't work correctly. I would re-follow the instructions, and correct resistors, mis-installed transistors... I bought an AM/SW radio, which you assembled in stages as a learning tool. Was a very

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Let's see, Heathkit tube stereo FM receiver, HH Scott stereo tube amplifier, Knightkit VTVM (still have it and it works), Heathkit Twoer (2 meter Ham transceiver), Heathkit Tunneldipper (still works), scratch built (from schematics) 80, 40, 15 meter CW transmitter, my own design 57 watt

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Holy. I built all sorts of HK stuff. I had my HK automotive scope up until maybe 10 years ago. I built my first SW receiver for my paternal grandfather so he could listen to broadcasts from Eastern Bloc countries (he was from what is now Albania.) My Dad bought that one so I could build it for

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Heathkit was pretty much gone by the time I was earning enough to afford anything interesting. I built a few kits from Radio Shack as a kid. My dad built a few things from Heathkit. I remember the parts spread out on the kitchen table after dinner when he'd work on them. He was very meticulous

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Is it transistors or tubes? That's around the time that they started changing over. My dad always bought component stuff. We had his Scott integrated amplifier (which was mono) as the amp for playing records in the family room. It was tube based. At some point he bought a transistorized

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I’d wager most of us on here have built a Heathkit Receiver at some point in their younger years. AZBob Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > AM and SW can travel farther (sometimes much farther) than FM especially at > night. > > I

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Yup. It’s called “propagation” and I used it to listen to all sorts of cool stuff on my HeathKit SW receiver. It’s also why AM stations are required to reduce power after sunset. If you were an ARRL member you could get propagation “forecasts” that would give you an idea of the best days and

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AM and SW can travel farther (sometimes much farther) than FM especially at night. I had a little crystal radio kit at some point when I was a kid and at night would sometimes pick up AM "blowtorch" stations hundreds of miles away. On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 13:05, dan penoff.com via Mercedes

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I remember tube testers at Radio Shack. I was born in 1966. On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 12:59, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > I remember back in the day when the Radio Shack at the mall had a > vacuum tube tester. > > I forget, am I the youngest on the list? Gotta be close... > > -Curt > > >

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Yeah, that was another place I used. Forgot about them. I was always amazed at the sensitivity of the tuners these things had. I had an outdoor copper wire dipole that ran into my room that I used for my HeathKit SW receiver and when I hooked that up to it I could pull in an amazing number of

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I'm older than most and a longtime record buff but never seen nor heard of 16 1/3 rpm discs. On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 1:03 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Huh, I never thought about it. I think we only had a couple 16rpm records. > I guess it's really 16 2/3 rpm: >

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Huh, I never thought about it. I think we only had a couple 16rpm records. I guess it's really 16 2/3 rpm: https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2011/05/slower-than-slow-16-rpm-records.html -Curt On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 12:53:12 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: Wow

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I remember back in the day when the Radio Shack at the mall had a vacuum tube tester. I forget, am I the youngest on the list? Gotta be close... -Curt On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 12:50:04 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Yup, seen lots like that or similar over the

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Wow I've never heard of 16 RPM records. Were they common? I'm guessing maybe they were for spoken word/audio-book type stuff? On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 11:43, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Back when your sound system was furniture. > > My parents have an old radio/record player combo in

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> I remember it was something about some transistors needed to be replaced and > she opted not to fix it. Transistors, and/or capacitors. Tricky to fix if you're not familiar with the particular circuit BS of the age. Else everything just pops again. Tube gear is easier to work on.

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> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/677208133799739/?mibextid=6ojiHh > Faux old. Here is a photo of the ultra-'modern' one I grew up with, a Schenkendorf: 800 × 583

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My grandparents bought a Philco console stereo in 1955 as a gift to themselves when my grandfather finished building their home. It’s worked its way four generations and is now in my newly married youngest daughter‘s home. It sounds great. AZBob Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2022, at

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I have 2 old console stereos. One is currently out in the garage and should work. I paid $20 for it probably 30 years ago at a thrift store. Its a magnavox and has a really fancy cabinet. The other one is an RCA Victor that was my grandparents. It’s in my office and I would REALLY like to get

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Back when your sound system was furniture. My parents have an old radio/record player combo in their basement that is similar though not as big. Someday when the house on the great northern estate is more finished I'll take it up there. Hopefully the moisture of the basement hasn't completely

[MBZ] I have never seen an old console stereo like this before

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