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#22 · (Edited)
Like my father I built my own loudspeakers.I remember having a loudspeaker without a magnet and elektricity was needed to led it work.:p
My first hifi player was a Braun PS500,I was18 then.

 
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Traverso said:
Like my father I built my own loudspeakers.I remember having a loudspeaker without a magnet and elektricity was needed to led it work.:p
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Our living room console radio also had a large speaker that used an electromagnet, powered from the radio's power supply. Alnico, which made permanent magnet speakers far more practical, wasn't developed until WWII.

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Traverso said:
Like my father I built my own loudspeakers.I remember having a loudspeaker without a magnet and elektricity was needed to led it work.:p
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They are known as a "field coil" speaker.

They have made a bit of a comeback in the high end world.

I've heard a few mega-priced versions at recent audio shows. Pretty impressive. Super efficient.
 
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Simon Moon said:
They are known as a "field coil" speaker.

They have made a bit of a comeback in the high end world.

I've heard a few mega-priced versions at recent audio shows. Pretty impressive. Super efficient.
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and elektricity was needed to led it work
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and in the wrong hands a good way for some novice to get electrocuted monkeying around with the speakers.
 
#29 · (Edited)
I don't count my GE all in one.

In 1972-3 I worked at a Korvettes discount store, which had a stereo department. With some of the money I earned I bought a Pioneer PL-10 turntable and a Pioneer SA 8100 amp to go with some Fisher speakers (all bought with my store discount). I quickly upgraded my speakers to the Large Advents, but I had the amp and turntable for at least a decade. I also added the Advent cassette deck.

I recall the summer of 1976 when I was living in NYC with a couple of friends. One had his own pair of Advents, so for that summer we had the legendary double Advent system.
 
#30 ·
As a schoolboy I scrimped and saved my wages from a part-time job in a newsagents to buy for £50 from a customer/acquaintance a Garrard turntable, an Armstrong amp and a set of headphones (can't recall the make). I eventually sold them all to my then-brother in law when I bought an (inferior, it has to be said) integrated system when I was in my late teens.

I can't recall which model of Garrard turntable it was now but I'm pretty sure this was the Armstrong amp I had:

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I don't count my GE all in one.

In 1972-3 I worked at a Korvettes discount store, which had a stereo department. With some of the money I earned I bought a Pioneer PL-10 turntable and a Pioneer SA 8100 amp to go with some Fisher speakers (all bought with my store discount). I quickly upgraded my speakers to the Large Advents, but I had the amp and turntable for at least a decade. I also added the Advent cassette deck.

I recall the summer of 1976 when I was living in NYC with a couple of friends. One had his own pair of Advents, so for that summer we had the legendary double Advent system.
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I had the 'small Advents' and then a new roommate had the same. We experimented trying to do some sort of Quad thing, without the decoder
 
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We had just got married and started a hi-fi fund. When we decided we had enough we went out and bought a Ferguson all in one system in 1974. The shop said they could deliver but we splurged on a taxi to get it home to our bed-sit .

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We had many happy hours listening to folk - Steeleye Span - sitting on the floor playing scrabble.
 
#33 ·
I took control of the family system - a Rigonda record player/radio. It wasn't the highest quality (small wonder) but it was well made (manufactured in Latvia, not Russia) and lived a long life. The radio included short-wave, which made it ideal for listening to the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. :devil:
 
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Unable to afford the coveted Zenith “Wedge,” with its distinctively stylish wedge-shaped integrated AM-FM stereo receiver/turntable/record changer/eight-track player allied to a pair of Allegro 3000 tuned-port speakers (10” woofer, 3½” horn tweeter w/“Brilliance” switch), I settled for the smaller and less powerful eight-track-playerless J584W, which had no official nickname at all—but I wisely upgraded at the time of purchase from the standard Allegro 1000 tuned-port speakers (6½” woofer, 3½” horn tweeter w/o “Brilliance” switch) to the Allegro 2000 tuned-port speakers (8” woofer, 3½” horn tweeter w/“Brilliance” switch)—the “Brilliance” switch made all the difference.
 
#35 ·
Back in the late 1950s, I built my first amplifier (mono) and separate FM tuner as EICO kits. EICO kits were for poorer kids; Dynaco Dynakits were for more affluent kids. Had a Utah speaker in a Karlson enclosure, I forget which turntable, an Audek tone arm and a GE variable reluctance cartridge. When stereo became more accessable, I then built an EICO stereo amp and stereo FM tuner, and set up another Karlson to match the first. Went through Components Corporation, Weathers, and Rek-O-Kut turntables, and all sorts of cartridges, tone arms. Then amps from Lafayette and Radio Shack. Then Acoustic Research speakers. Finally ended up with Denon electronics and Boston Acoustics speakers. Now I listen almost entirely via headphones, as close neighbors would not appreciate my preferred listening volume. Favorite truly loud selection back in the Good Old Days? The ending of the Saint Gregory the Great segment of Respighi's Church Windows; also the last half of the last movement of Saint-Saens Organ Symphony. Rattle those windows! :lol:
 
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My first unit was an Amstrad which I bought around 1980. It quite good sound, but if you didn't use the rumble filter when playing records it'd blow a fuse in the internal workings which, although easy to replace, was a little awkward. It also had a red and green LED in each speaker unit which was great fun.


After this I had an Aiwa Series 70.


Finally, I bought the Sony MHC S9D about 20 years ago and still use it today. The turntable from the Aiwa is used with it.
 
#37 ·
My first hi fi was back in the 1970's in Hong Kong. Pioneer receiver/amp, Sansui turntable, JVC speakers and TEAC tape recorder. Except for the tape recorder, I gave all the other away. I did not understand hi fi back then but saved money for system that can produce powerful 'noises'. Now, my system is so different and the 'noises' becomes refined musical sound for pure enjoyment.
 
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