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I had those speakers too but in black. Completely forgot about them till you have posted the photo. I guess we grew up in the same country.
No doubt about it
I had those speakers too but in black. Completely forgot about them till you have posted the photo. I guess we grew up in the same country.
Had a setup like this in the 70s. Hooked up the speakers to a radio/8-Track in my '72 VW Superbeetle
Rome
I had this Craig 8-track player, but in the mobile (auto) version...man, Vanilla Fudge "Rock And Roll," Blues Project "Live At The Cafe A Go-Go," bootleg copy of "Layla," oh what a simpler time
Sorry, all I could see in the last pic is a QUAD ESL 57 with something obstructing it...Wonderful idea for a thread!
My father is for sure the origin of my stereo bug. He brought home a used but fairly high-end (for the time) stereo when I was maybe seven years old. It had an Eico ST-40 tube integrated amplifier and matching tuner, a Rek-O-Kut turntable, and custom speakers using University drivers.
My brother still has Dad's Rek-O-Kut K33-H:
That's my old Stanton mounted on it. I'd like to hear it again...
Here's one record he used to play for guests, at a life-like volume, too!
As I got a little older, he taught me how to handle records, how to clean them with a curious little brush, maybe 5/8 inch diameter and 2 1/2 inches tall, of brass, with bristles of fine sable I would guess, where the bristles were retractable by turning a ring at the end of the brush. Pretty soon I was playing records on my own.
My favorite was this one, and I'm naturally extremely partial to this particular performance, and regard Bruno Walter as a genius:
Maybe I'm not the only one partial to this performance. Here's a Youtube comment that I could have written, but didn't:
"Still by far my favorite version of the 5th Symphony by Beethoven. The pace and timing are not typical of most conductors and it has always been more elegant and powerful, at least to me, because of this. My father used to listen to the original vinyl of this disc practically every week when I was a child, and I memorized this symphony by the time I was 12 years old because of it. Time well spent. THANK YOU for posting this!"
Here's the album cover:
I wasn't so much of a genius, though. For years I thought Beethoven's first name was Walter.
Both the trains and the Beethoven sounded amazing coming out of these, which I still have:
They still sound as I remember them. Ah, nostalgia!