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Patrick Dimd said:
I think there are a few of these in the collection. There's a Hank Williams and then a 10-in Hank as well.
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About 24 in the classical series, I think. I have a couple of them. It took a threatened strike and defection to Columbia by conductors to persuade RCA to adopt the new LP format. The company had its fingers burned when they attempted to introduce LPs during the Depression and intended to issue albums of 7" 45s using the same musical content as the old 78s. Frank (@Delmarva) has one of those albums.

It took another 10 years for stereo LPs to be issued, again by Columbia.
 
Vinylforlife said:
They're Paradigm Model 9 from the early 80s there's not a lot of info on them that I have been able to dig up. I do know they were designed using the NRC anechoic chamber in Ottawa. Paradigm built their own chamber in 1988 they used for later models. I currently have them connected to a Panasonic AV Receiver with an internal DAC that I'm using for TV audioView attachment 3716787View attachment 3716788
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Nice!, I like that generation of Paradigm speakers, I have a set of the model 3se's, and I heard a pair of the model 7se towers at a guys house I was buying a receiver from years ago and they sounded pretty good, I wouldn't mind getting a pair of them. I bet those 9's sound pretty nice.
 
Welp...I decided to push all my "slush fund" chips in and get an entry level Yamaha cassette deck to complete the 80s stack off Reverb. KX-W232. Also marketed as the K-60.

It was serviced, and even with shipping, because of the exchange rate vs Canadian $, it came out to about $120, which was what the local deck I saw on craigslist going for, unserviced.

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Should fit snug as a bug in a rug into the Yamaha stack, don't you think @3db @avionic :naughty::naughty: I know there's better Yamaha decks from the era around, but honestly, not that big of a deal to me, much like the tuner - I'll use it, and even dub Hot Jazz Saturday Night as much as I can, but it's also just nice to look at in the stack, I hope :)

my wife just told me she thinks her whole cassette collection is in her parents house too...sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet........
 
NattyBDC said:
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:bye:what up dawg
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hey, just relaxing with a drink, spent this afternoon working on organizing my listening room, got 5 big boxes of cardboard to go out with the trash tomorrow just from consolidating boxes in the basement. I keep finding all sorts of cool stuff down there, I found a Rotel receiver I don't remember buying, so thats a bonus, lol
 
AltecDarpa said:
hey, just relaxing with a drink, spent this afternoon working on organizing my listening room, got 5 big boxes of cardboard to go out with the trash tomorrow just from consolidating boxes in the basement. I keep finding all sorts of cool stuff down there, I found a Rotel receiver I don't remember buying, so thats a bonus, lol
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Damn. That qualifies as an early Christmas.
 
KevinJS said:
Damn. That qualifies as an early Christmas.
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yea it has been like that a few times while organizing, we bought this house 11 years ago because we were 2 months away from having our first kid, and we were not really planning on being here long term, so we never really unpacked like 75% of our stuff it just all went into the basement and it pretty much stayed that way until recently.
 
Platypus20 said:
Walked into the basement, to do a load of laundry, to find the floor wet, the gas fired water heater was leaking. At 11 am, made 2 phone calls, at noon picked up new water heater, by 2:30 pm, the heater was in and running. Damn, the last water heater I bought was about $400, this one was about $700 with tax, it’s wreaking havoc with my cd/lp budget.

The neighbor had one replaced between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that was a $3100 job. When I put mine in originally, I used my boiler serviceman mentality, shut off valves and unions. It was, shut off the water and gas, broke all the unions, removed the vent piping, slid the old unit out of the way. slid new unit in, reconnected the piping, filled the water heater, reinstalled the stack, turned the gas on, lit the pilot, set the out put temp and we off and running.

Not how I wanted to start the day, but I also did get the laundry done
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That's a lot per hour of savings. Great job. :biggrin:
 
AltecDarpa said:
Nice!, I like that generation of Paradigm speakers, I have a set of the model 3se's, and I heard a pair of the model 7se towers at a guys house I was buying a receiver from years ago and they sounded pretty good, I wouldn't mind getting a pair of them. I bet those 9's sound pretty nice.
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Yeah they do I'm looking to either get my Yamaha CR 640 serviced or pick up another vintage receiver or Int amp and pickup a vintage 70s or early 80s TT and cassette deck for a vintage system
 
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