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Post by plasticpenguin on Aug 14, 2018 13:26:44 GMT
Actually the summer of 1978 when I purchased my first proper amplifier. More accurately, my dad purchased it Freemans catalogue and I paid him back (I was only 15 at the time).
40 years.
What year was yours?
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Post by davidf on Aug 14, 2018 14:32:29 GMT
Nice. As I mentioned in another thread, mine was around 1983 which I still have the receipt for, which was a used Denon. I’ll post up the receipt when I dig it out  |
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Post by plasticpenguin on Aug 14, 2018 15:42:48 GMT
Ta.
Many of the popular receivers of the day looked the same: Marantz, Pioneer, Fisher, Realistic... still looks quite cool 40 years on.
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Post by nopiano on Aug 15, 2018 21:59:00 GMT
I think my first receiver purchase was 1974, a Tandberg TR200. I listened to the usual suspects from Pioneer, Trio et al, but chose the European design for its smoother sound and mechanical presets for FM. It had a real teak case too! The downside was the DIN socketry though it was fine if you didn’t swap too often!
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Post by diamondjoe on Aug 17, 2018 7:32:22 GMT
I'd forgotten Tandberg used to make domestic audio equipment nopiano, I've only used their pro equipment, I think they're owned by Ericsson now. Anyhoo, I've been trying to work out when I got my first amp, I think it might have been 1985 and it was an Akai AM-U3 (I was very fond of Akai back in the early days) it had a touch control for the volume which I thought was the dogs danglies!! Used to be a bit of a problem if you accidentally touched the far end of the control, how I never blew up my speakers I'll never know  |
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Post by davidf on Aug 17, 2018 10:41:01 GMT
I remember the 80s Akai stuff. VERY 80s looking with colourful buttons (touch sensitive buttons if I recall?). Always liked the look of their cassette decks, and did want one at one point. But then, I also always wanted the tapes they had in their cassette decks for promo shots - they looked like little reel to reel tapes!
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Post by diamondjoe on Aug 19, 2018 21:40:20 GMT
You're not wrong about Akai stuff being very 80's, I had a look for pictures of my old kit on Google recently, the first time I've seen them for years, looks somewhat dated, and not in good way like some of the other stuff mentioned above.
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Post by davidf on Aug 19, 2018 22:22:55 GMT
I like the look of 80s hi-fi. 70s hi-fi looks old, vintage, with fancy italic fonts, excess of knobs etc. Whereas 80s hi-fi looks modern in a retro sort of way, with its straight edges and buttons replacing knobs. I’d have an 80s system over a 70s system any time.
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Post by plasticpenguin on Aug 20, 2018 4:20:51 GMT
My cousin had an old Akai receiver back in the 80s. It was alright but wasn't a patch on the Pioneer SA-706 integrated amp. The Akai sounded quite dated: Very warm and uninvolving.
He did, however, take my advice and invested in some Wharfedale Diamond speakers (I had the Linton XP2). The Diamonds did improve the sound IIRC but the Akai was seriously lacking.
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