I would argue that the audio dog has been chasing it's tail since 1959.

But there is no need to fantasize, I am sure that most of us here on AK have systems that do the important thing - play music. In the family room the Yammie CR-2020 and Polk 7Bs will make me think the artist is standing right in front of the fireplace - with Sarah Brightman I might wish it was true, but Florence would whup me upside the head.

The other systems are equally excellent but just do not have the space as yet. Having gotten into this vintage game quite by accident, I am only delighted to have systems that I could only look at and wish for in younger days. The name of the game is music. Nothing in reproduction yet comes close, but for all intents and purposes it is close enough (there is a joke with that punch line somewhere in the back of my mind). I would even replace the Polks with a set of Vitavox corner horns if, a) I could find a pair, and b) if there was room.

Rob
 
tom1356 said:
The logical choice for a preamp is the McIntosh C-8 at $193.00 per pair including Mahogany cabinets, but with G. W. Borg Micropot Precision Potentiometers available for $15.00 each and dual deck Grayhill switches at $3.50 each a DIY passive pre is really the only way to go here.
Resisting the urge to buy a record changer I would choose one of the greatest bargains ever in HI-FI the Garrard 301 with Ebony base at $110.74.
The Shack lets us down a little on tone-arm/cartridge choices. The best of the selections is the ESL 310 arm and cartridge combination at $106.50.
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tom1356, I enjoyed your post.

The passive preamp would not allow you to play your records because the required phono stage with equalization is missing. It looks like the McIntosh C-8 would still be the logical choice. Also, as pointed out by others, the Scott 330-C would only play mono FM. Since there are no AM-FM stereo broadcasts today your Scott tuner for all intents and purposes would be good mono only radio listening.
 
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I listen to my tuners in mono by choice :-) MPX stereo just increases noise and distortion relative to mono under identical conditions. I own a couple of outboard MPX's that I could use on the mono Sherwoods, but they sound better without.
 
tom1356 said:
The catalog still has the order form in it. Maybe I will fill it out and send in a check. :cool:
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Wouldn't it be freaky if you got something delivered! :scratch2:
 
I liked the "brush" haircuts Mark's dad & the grinning guy are wearing..Remember going & getting a haircut w/yr dad? The barber shop stunk of cigarettes & that gawdawful stuff they put on yr hair...YOU smelled of cigarettes & that odious stuff for a day after you came home.....And remember that material of the jacket the guy on the extreme right is wearing? It was a knobby kind of fabric. We had a chair upholstered in the same sort of stuff-it felt good on my widdle bum when I was a kid....<grin>
 
I've often had similar thoughts. The best equipment from the early stereo era has held up surprisingly well over time; no doubt about it. But there have been some very worth-while improvements in technology over the past 50 years as well.
 
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