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Marantz SR 12 S 1 ?

Hope I can go there,

Really love these diff.kinds ok amplifiers.,cd, dvds player

What if I told you I still have the Onkyo SR606 😂 I was looking at getting a Denon av receiver though

27:40 ELO afterglow album.. all b sides and unreleased Elo songs. a must have for collectors

DCM time windows

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I have the 1000 and 2000 solid state receivers from around 1967. Found at my local Goodwill on two separate days. $25 each. Nice wood cases. Still working fine!

11:08 those are BES Bertagni ...... I had those. They were pretty good speakers but just dont have the oomph that I like from traditional woofers.

Looks like you walked by a pair of NHT2.9 speakers. Great speakers! ❤

so which one was the best? which one is the most WAW! factor? horns or la scalas?

Phase Linear, Linn and Revox

on the downside, what's the point? They are not used/ a waste. People with little budget are struggling to find functioning, inexpensive audio gear while there are warehouse-sized amounts of unused equipment collecting dust.

YOOOOOO, Lenny Read my Comment from 2 days ago, you will like what I put about You !

Wish we had something like this here near Galveston Texas although from a financial point of view it's probably best there isn't

Hi Lenny, you should write a book. I remember the days "devouring" Audio magazine and Stereo Review magazine for the latest tests and information on Hi-Fi Gear. I grew up in the "development years" of the Philips' audio Cassette. Thank you for taking the time to research the history of these once audio leaders who eventually got eaten up by Chinese low cost production and company greed. It is sad, Peace be with you, Ciao, L (Baby "Booming" Audiophile)

Julian Hirsch was perhaps the best known reviewer in the 60's and 70's, for Stereo Review I think. I met his son Steve in Burlington VT many years ago, and Steve told me that his father was the principle reason for the increased popularity of the 901's. Bose set up a pair of 901's in his house, assuring him that they just pulled them off the production line, with no tweaking. Hirsch gave such a glowing review of the supposedly non-tweaked 901's that sales shot up. As I remember, he later regretted that review. As a former surround sound tech, I remember that the AM5 popularity was because of the WAF (wife acceptance factor). Real men wanted big towers, mama wanted something as invisible as possible. Guess who won? Well, Bose of course. And I remember the saying at the time "No highs, no lows...that's Bose!"

Great store!!!Unfortunately we dont have places like this in Greece!!!You are very lucky Lenny!!

No Pioneer hpm 100s? No BIC venturi? I'm shocked

Shaub Lorenz(german quality) was the first tv in my family but even today the materials are surprising over any modern tv i´ve seen and it still works you tunned the channels like in a fm radio and as a huge screen maybe the first big screen ever, my grandmother used to tell me they were the first to have a tv and neighboors would appear after dinner like if they were going to a party just to watch tv at night in my grandparents living room,which is my room now in my mothers house or family house and because she´s getting too old she´s afraid of people entering the house from the backyard ,i remenber that never a door was closed so no working locks and i go there several nights to spend time with her and the master living room is now my room where i spend the nights and have a mixed system of sound with a smart tv(not that smart) and maybe half the whole week i sleep there and installed a new lock in my mothers bedroom,she´s in her 90´s and only complained that one white air appeared no other health issues, she goes to senior university and women with less 20 years of her think she´s the younger one, her air is like when she was young ,straight and strong but happens to all she´s not going to live forever, maybe she will live more than me

i still have in use a set of kenwood speakers ,huge ones bought in 1971 they have three ways and , i think they have four ways with a 60cm ,almost the doble area of a Lp record woofer giant one only 70 watts output(real ones) that with a Yamaha studio monitor ,horizontal one i get better frequency response and quality sound from a SA-9800 from pioneer, i used to have some HPM-100 but send them to be restored, i do this for a long time big speakers for the bass frequencies and a better sounding studio monitor on top for better mids and highs, those electrostatic speakers never atracted me the Quad brigade spent a lot on them in early 80´s but today all their systems look old and sound bad

in saw there a turntable i had for 6 monthes from pioneer in the 80´s that is for sure without a new cartridge or stylus but a good AT cartridge they sound at least 1000 times better than any new Rega or Pro-Ject till 5.000€ both cartridge and turntable ,i got a P10 recentelly for my new modern system and kept one of the three provided cartridges and install there a Hana Umami red ,only because i can buy them cheaper but i notice one thing not all kinds of recordings sound good there, while in old cartridges all types of sound were played perfectelly and even the cheaply old built turntables are several stages above new turntables materials or assembly, that i researched since 2017 till today having access to the only hi-fi music store in my hometown that belongs since early 80´s to a friend of mine, he almost cklose doors almost 3 times since then but we told him ,if you close it no store will open and better days will come ,he also sales instruments and young kids when starting a band they go for the most known brands or more expensive ones that have three series of their instruments models, cheap, average and full prices highest quality in struments and there is also the most expensive range they call custom now with not som many models but the most known, i have a Les paul in white with more pick-ups than i used to have in a older model also have a jaguar that is black with wooden arm(original colour)then i have a fender precision bass and a musicman ,also have a tama equiped with ufip and zildjan plates and a yamaha with Paiste and soultone, the leather when changed the first time i prefer Remo ,this because my father in 1970 assembled a home studio with the best available at the time ,that as been improved since then, i still record Demos for new bands that i find interesting not many but enough to be always in contact with youth in my town what surprises me is that from time to time in highschool some bands do surprise me for the best

Thanks

YOUR PRICES ARE CRAZY SUPER HIGH, HOPE YOU HAVE SUPER RICH PEOPLE BUYING FROM YOU. 😅

Sound Advance produced inwall versions of those Bertagni speakers. I install a bunch of them in high-end custom homes 30 years ago. Their styrofoam surface replaced gypsum board. The drywall contractor would mud them into their surrounding surfaces. They were designed strictly for background music. They didn't sound very good. Sound Advance later produced an equalizer to assist with the overall balance. Think of listening to Bose 901 speakers without their proprietary equalizer.

All the pioneers have aluminum knobs with plastic inserts

@1:10 - Technics 'thinking outside the box'

I LIKE THE MARANTZ 2600 , AT 270 WATTS PER CHANNEL , I STARTED OUT WITH A 2216B WHEN I WAS 16 AND HAVE ALWAYS LOVED HOW CLEAN SOUNDING FROM LOW TO HIGH THEY REALLY ARE !!!

With outrageous prices

All of these receivers are the best .

Great video, what a place. It isn't exactly vintage audio but you were close to a legendary concert sound and video company, Clair Global. They started out as Clair Brothers in Lititz Pa just to the east of Manheim. They now have locations all over the world. Some cool things are hidden in the corn fields of Pennsylvania.

There’s a lot of modern stereos on the left side in the beginning of the video

OMG - I have to visit this store. Talk about a kid in a candy shop. All very tempting but, I think I'll keep my NAD 7220PE.

I can hear the super tweeter.

You always tell the story about the the McIntosh 275 vs. the wife. I'm starting to think after these years listening to you telling that story that might be, just might be YO ARE THE HUSBAND hiding behind that tube amp's facelifting. Tell me the truth brother because the doubt is killing me. LOL - By the way, the Rotel integrated at the start of this video, I hear several times that not only that is a gorgeous piece but one of the most powerful best built amps of all time. Great vid . Much love as always from West Spain!!

i have alot of stuff you might like

The only one thing what really impressed me about bose is the bass.

Tall black speakers look like Dunlavy SC5

10:16 I was always wondering if those were possibly the hereseys because of the cut outs but I figured no way because why would somebody spend that much money on something that seemingly doesn’t matter for a restaurant?

Great video Lenny! I live in Norristown Pa so Manheim isn't a hard reach for me. Thanks!

Great Stop. thank you.

"BES" was the brand name of the flat speakers.

Funny to hear that the Philips cassette deck is rare in America. You saw them a lot here in the Netherlands. The 900 series was the best they sold here from Philips in the 90s. I also had such a system with a DCC 900 digital tape deck instead of a cassette deck.

God I miss the days when speaker manufacturers still had the pride and imagination to make speakers like that

Lintons May impress at First but they May lack a real hard punch. Anyway they are so charming...

Lintons are a pure beauty 😮

JBL C50 Olympus.

Not really HiFi. It's all Jap Crap from the era of Japanese dumping on our market. The Standard Radio stuff (Marantz) to the uninformed was mediocrity at best but even today people buy that shit for its face plate. My father owned a fairly prominent hifi store in the day, and to avoid the never sold at retail actions of the Japanese we stopped selling anything from Marantz or Pioneer. It was priced to sell at half of retail by just about everyone with crazy thin margins. We only sold the ES and Elite lines of Sony and Pioneer but carried NAD, Proton and some Onkyo. Frankly hifi was and still is Snake Oil.