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Originally posted by MarsRed:
... I used to feel like a pup on this board, ... when you've got access to pure overkill, why wouldn't you use it ...
on the subject of old stuff ... and overkill ...
When I had a garage the sound system was Magnepan speakers and early 1970s Phase Linear 400 amp & 4000 "QUAD" pre-amp (Quad as in quadraphonic, the first 4 channel sound format). The one with the joy-stick balance control. Anyone remember that? Old stuff right?
Inside the home my stereo system was composed of a pair of Quad ESL 57s (this pair was mfg circa 1962) which decades later morphed into my home theater with 3 Quads arrayed across one living room wall (left, center, right) below the wall mounted large screen television and a pair of vintage Rogers BBC monitors for the rear channels. Quad in this case is the name of a British manufacturer of hi-fi equipment. Older stuff (except for the television)!
Now that I'm a condo-maniac the home theater has shrunk in size (Def Tech Mythos speakers), which is new stuff I never listen to.
I retained my original pair of 1960s vintage Quads for the bed room, powered by vintage Quad tube amps. The bedroom also has a 1970s vintage phono system (Luxman turntable & Audio Quest/Jelco tone arm) which I keep around so I can show the grand kids what vinyl LP records were all about; and there's an original Magnavox FD1000-SL flagship top loading CD player (mfg in Holland circa 1983). The CD player's laser mechanism, metal chassis, and flagship electronics are very robust (and heavy), it still plays like new, and even plays home recorded CDs. The CD player was manufactured long before over-sampling, dithering, and all those gimmicks were introduced, but the sound has never been bettered ... its a keeper. I don't plan to ever give up the Quads either, their sound has satisfied me since the 1960s. I tell everyone the bedroom system is a museum display. No infra-red remotes! Elvis never sounded better.
I held onto the Phase Linear 400 amp that was in the garage too, its one great sounding transistor amp. Maybe someday I'll put together a sound system for Pantera Internationals public storage unit.
rock and roll
