quote:Originally posted by No Quarter:
You got tunes? In your garage? Always had, mostly crummy ghettoblaster minis, with low cost and poor sound. Well I got an offer on the ultimate 70s audio component, a Marantz receiver, a 2225 for $50. I have other vintage Marantz inside, bought in my teens, but I never had a receiver, too expensive. Now I have, and everything works after an hour of fiddling with string pulling the slider. A 2225 is one of the smallest, but I think that at 1/4 volume I can annoy the neighbors.
Makes fiddling with cars even more enjoyable
I had a Marantz nearly Identical to that when I was in my teens. I can remember how long I had to work wheeling concrete to pay for it. I stepped up to 220 w/channel Luxman when I went to college which I still have on a shelf in waiting. It was also really "the stuff" in the day. My Father always had high power McIntosh tube amps and big Klipsch style folded horn base drivers with big old Altec drivers. He liked his base. -Very soft, especially in the low frequencies. Some still prefer them over transistor driven low ends. I think his system when well pointed could knock one of the teeny-boppers with the booming car base systems off the road!
-Good memories.
Best,
K