Tally Ho
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Hi All,
I am Peter (nick Tally Ho) living with wife and Doberman dogs near Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Sort of common for a Rotterdam resident.. I do work in the shipping industry (ships spares).
Sixty y/o by the time of writing, so with a four kids family my parents just could afford the odd Transistor radio in my early years and in the sixties the one of a million produced wooden Grundig cabinets with an integrated record player. Fond memories of playing those 45" singles from Roy Orbison, Lefty Frizzel, Petula Clark and early Beatles. One day around 1966 Dad came home with what looked like a home made steel framed Stereo tube amplifier (sort of Geloso it was) and two huge speaker cabinets, Pick-Up plus a Stereo demonstration LP. Breathless for the rest of the evening we played that record over and over again... flipping your eyes try to catch up that (invisable) Table Tennis PingPong ball, or the car that started on the r.h side and drove away on the l.h side, pure magic it was. Along in that period my older brothers came home with the records of Cream, Hendrix, Kinks, Small Faces, the Who etc. so thanks to them I am still hooked on that 60's stuff.
Owing my own bedroom early 70's (!) I ended up with an old Philips Receiver and a tiny tape-deck followed later on by a cassette deck. Left school in 1974 and once I started working from one of my first wages I bought an Akai Stereo set, few years later replaced that by a brandnew Pioneer SA-6300 with Marantz speakers. Now that made the neighbours jump whilst playing Boston, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy, Queen.
Met my wife in 1984, living together from 1985 on she brought in this nearly new big Akai amp (# can't recall) we had this for years along with her Magnat speakers. Bought a new set after a house rebuild at the end of the 90's, this being a Yamaha RX-496RDS receiver with Infinity speakers and a Aristona CD/DVD player.
*Nearly there..*
Two months ago I discovered some trouble with the Yamaha, the right channel did not came along when starting up... Fiddled around with the Balance control knob and hey Presto; problem solved. Starting again, same problem again! Also it appears the old Infinity speakers woofer foam rings were completely absent (!) I decided to dispose this set and, is it my age or something?, had a look around for some 1.0 old school HIFI components. First time I browsed in the Classified Ads for "old stuff" I came across a pair of beautiful restored Wharfdale E-Fifty speakers, be it only 7 kilometres from our home.
Arrested them the same evening, the seller also being happy with our old expired Infinity speakers I brought with me, great deal for both sides!
Spend endless time searching for a Marantz receiver (the "Must Have" according to several I-net Guru's)... but hey! What about those asking prices? Do they have gold knobs? Are they loaded with some expensive precious metal kinda stuff? I just came across a very neat PIoneer SX-790 Receiver (= 780 type but black face + black upholstery instead of wood cover) for a fraction of the Marantz asking prices (in Holland that is, dunno anywhere else). Collected it last week, at home I took the cover off, it's a bit dusty on the inside. The illumination on the front is kinda weak so already checking this site for some LED alterations. Also discovered 2 different serial nos. on the Darlington packs underneath so will it will be subject to some further investigation before it will be finally installed.
Will get some pics asap and try to keep you updated,
Oh! On the record: I am a noob where it concerns techs, do know how to solder due to my bass-guitar hobby on pots but there it ends. No knowledge on Caps/Diodes/Triodes whatsoever
only the written food for thougt as seen....
NIce to meet you!
Thank you for attention.
I am Peter (nick Tally Ho) living with wife and Doberman dogs near Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Sort of common for a Rotterdam resident.. I do work in the shipping industry (ships spares).
Sixty y/o by the time of writing, so with a four kids family my parents just could afford the odd Transistor radio in my early years and in the sixties the one of a million produced wooden Grundig cabinets with an integrated record player. Fond memories of playing those 45" singles from Roy Orbison, Lefty Frizzel, Petula Clark and early Beatles. One day around 1966 Dad came home with what looked like a home made steel framed Stereo tube amplifier (sort of Geloso it was) and two huge speaker cabinets, Pick-Up plus a Stereo demonstration LP. Breathless for the rest of the evening we played that record over and over again... flipping your eyes try to catch up that (invisable) Table Tennis PingPong ball, or the car that started on the r.h side and drove away on the l.h side, pure magic it was. Along in that period my older brothers came home with the records of Cream, Hendrix, Kinks, Small Faces, the Who etc. so thanks to them I am still hooked on that 60's stuff.
Owing my own bedroom early 70's (!) I ended up with an old Philips Receiver and a tiny tape-deck followed later on by a cassette deck. Left school in 1974 and once I started working from one of my first wages I bought an Akai Stereo set, few years later replaced that by a brandnew Pioneer SA-6300 with Marantz speakers. Now that made the neighbours jump whilst playing Boston, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy, Queen.
Met my wife in 1984, living together from 1985 on she brought in this nearly new big Akai amp (# can't recall) we had this for years along with her Magnat speakers. Bought a new set after a house rebuild at the end of the 90's, this being a Yamaha RX-496RDS receiver with Infinity speakers and a Aristona CD/DVD player.
*Nearly there..*
Two months ago I discovered some trouble with the Yamaha, the right channel did not came along when starting up... Fiddled around with the Balance control knob and hey Presto; problem solved. Starting again, same problem again! Also it appears the old Infinity speakers woofer foam rings were completely absent (!) I decided to dispose this set and, is it my age or something?, had a look around for some 1.0 old school HIFI components. First time I browsed in the Classified Ads for "old stuff" I came across a pair of beautiful restored Wharfdale E-Fifty speakers, be it only 7 kilometres from our home.
Arrested them the same evening, the seller also being happy with our old expired Infinity speakers I brought with me, great deal for both sides!
Spend endless time searching for a Marantz receiver (the "Must Have" according to several I-net Guru's)... but hey! What about those asking prices? Do they have gold knobs? Are they loaded with some expensive precious metal kinda stuff? I just came across a very neat PIoneer SX-790 Receiver (= 780 type but black face + black upholstery instead of wood cover) for a fraction of the Marantz asking prices (in Holland that is, dunno anywhere else). Collected it last week, at home I took the cover off, it's a bit dusty on the inside. The illumination on the front is kinda weak so already checking this site for some LED alterations. Also discovered 2 different serial nos. on the Darlington packs underneath so will it will be subject to some further investigation before it will be finally installed.
Will get some pics asap and try to keep you updated,
Oh! On the record: I am a noob where it concerns techs, do know how to solder due to my bass-guitar hobby on pots but there it ends. No knowledge on Caps/Diodes/Triodes whatsoever
only the written food for thougt as seen....NIce to meet you!
Thank you for attention.
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...you are a fit!
