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Klingon-Hifi made in USSR during the cold war

The comment about one soviet government official giving Fidel Castro a set of those cool Estats proves my point that you had to be someone and you had to know someone. this gear was not in every mans apartment. but man it sure is cool as hell ! thanks for posting all this stuff!
 
68custom said:
The comment about one soviet government official giving Fidel Castro a set of those cool Estats proves my point that you had to be someone and you had to know someone. this gear was not in every mans apartment.
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Well no, it doesn't prove your point; that a big shot give another big shot a gift doesn't mean ONLY big shots can have those things. I remember when Nixon gave Brezhnev a Lincoln and I knew boilermakers who drove Lincolns.

Electrostatic speakers aren't in every man's apartment in The United States either.
 
Soviet stereos

Tom Brennan said:
Well no, it doesn't prove your point; that a big shot give another big shot a gift doesn't mean ONLY big shots can have those things. I remember when Nixon gave Brezhnev a Lincoln and I knew boilermakers who drove Lincolns.

Electrostatic speakers aren't in every man's apartment in The United States either.
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:thmbsp: Good point.
 
Twice-told tale that when Nixon gave Brezhnev that Lincoln, he grinned, grabbed the keys, hauled ass out into DC traffic...The Secret Service had a WHALE of a time keeping up w/him....Always liked that story...
 
Always figgered the average Russian wasn't really a lot different than us; they prolly liked to screw off & have fun as much as we do. Putin's kinda dour, but I bet a day or 2 w/him & I'd have him whoopin' it up, too, big time...
 
Very interesting page about data of soviet "peoples statics"

http://www.master-nsv.narod.ru/DOCS/static.htm

I like the soviet charme of their speaker brochure:

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The church organ looks like an angry 1950s robot in a comic strip :)

especially their brand logo shows some typical communist constructive charme, cool!

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Iskra High Voltage Output Transformer

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"STATIK" written in Cyrillic

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Best regards

Willy
 
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Other very interesting Soviet Electronica 75ACB speakers:

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Massive aluminium protection-gates in Front of the woofers

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Giant Soviet Ribbon Tweeter

Best regards

Willy
 
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The conventional Elektronika 75AC-065 with ceramic coated woofer cone and titanium
dome tweeters
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are also very interesting speakers from the soviet era:

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Titanium mid dome

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thats pretty massive soviet hardware!

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Ceramic coated woofer cone

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Larger version 100AC-063, thats true High End Soviet stuff

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Best regards

Willy
 
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daviddeep said:
I'd love to see one of those KOPBEM turntables in person. That's pretty far out.
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I am in awe from this stuff.:drool: I don't think most Americans,Canadians,Japanese,Aussies what have you know this even exists.My guess is it was made for both higher ups in the party,and for gifts for important foreign visitors,like presidents or prime ministers,that's about it.If I were in Germany,Finland,Poland,or wherever,I might be tempted to put a piece or two on eBay,and see what it brings.
 
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It was just that time...mid-70s. Beatles (obviously), Zeppelin, Purple were huge in the USSR!

And there is one more tube power amp:
http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/000/rez2/priboy50_75um204s.html

30W/8 ohm or 60W/8 Ohm, THD-1%, 20 hz-20KHz.
Not bad!
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OK can you tell me about the teenage record hop at 1:39 in this video,give me a date,and what might have been played there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIdPdBF85DU
Great song,great video,great band.The guy playing guitar at 2:35 is cool too.

I was not aware of Zeppelin,Stones,etc. pressed in the USSR until the Gorbachev years.
 
These soviet ALNICO Speakers are high quality, made for little tube amps around 10W they should perform fine with a 300B
type of triode tube-amp. Nice woodwork.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Russian-Rog...omeAudioHiFi_HiFiSpeakers&hash=item4163d8103e

Soviet kind of Heathkit
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Rus...479?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item416403001f
for a high quality dual Mono Equalizer. Not a childs toy.
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Russian Gubin single ended high quality tube power amp
http://www.ebay.com/itm/COLLECTORS-...&otn=3&po=LVI&ps=63&clkid=7269251334877133131

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and here is a nice KORVET USSR Moving magnet high quality turntable cartridge
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Korvet-128-M...ultDomain_0&hash=item4163ebbba2#ht_500wt_1416

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Looks like the original cartridge from the Klingon turntable. (Housing might be made of old SS20 missile titanium as well)

Best regards

Willy
 
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Soviet era

thorenstd124 said:
OK can you tell me about the teenage record hop at 1:39 in this video,give me a date,and what might have been played there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIdPdBF85DU
Great song,great video,great band.The guy playing guitar at 2:35 is cool too.
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It's probably some of the so called "student disco clubs" which were very popular in the 70s-early 80s. I even used to work in one...
The group playing in this video is called DDT.
Here is some info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT_(band)

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I was not aware of Zeppelin,Stones,etc. pressed in the USSR until the Gorbachev years.
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I never said we played Soviet pressings-there were simply none! :D
Shortwave radio, Voice of America, BBC or Radio Sweden were our sources.
And occasionally some Western LPs made their way into our sweaty shaky hands and were copied countless times onto tapes...:music:
 
This whole discussion brought so many memories...

That was my parents radio:
http://rw6ase.narod.ru/000/rpl_s1/rigonda102.html

That's where first sounds of rock music came from....

Then it was followed by this RTR:
http://rw6ase.narod.ru/000/mg1/kometa201m.html

Later on while in college I bought this:

http://rw6ase.narod.ru/000/mg1/kometa212.html

and this:

http://rw6ase.narod.ru/000/rez1/melodija103.html
Big mistake! Turntable was so-so, but the speakers were just piece of crap....

So later on I built an amplifier and bought those:

http://rw6ase.narod.ru/000/rez1/wega_ep120s.html

http://rw6ase.narod.ru/000/rez2/35as012_212.html

And that was the time when neighbors started to complain!
 
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