Groovy

"lone_liberal" (token-liberal) 04/07/2019 at 18:57 • Filed to: None

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No car stuff this weekend but I did go get the world’s finest home entertainment instrument. Don’t believe me?

That’s right. Just look at this baby!

It even has four channels.

I picked this up years ago but I didn’t have any place to put it the last few places I’ve lived. Now it’s home again. It even sounded better than I remember. It still needs some cleaning up but I couldn’t resist putting on a record. Naturally I cranked up a little Free Bird. It seemed appropriate (and I don’t have a lot of vinyl left)

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > lone_liberal 04/07/2019 at 19:24

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Very cool. I’ve always wanted one of those. 

lone_liberal > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 04/07/2019 at 19:29

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This one has aux in jacks so I could add a CD player or iPod to it if I wanted but I doubt I do it. I already have a modern receiver for that. Maybe a reel-to-reel...

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > lone_liberal 04/07/2019 at 19:44

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ooooo oldschool

dat nice

lone_liberal > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/07/2019 at 19:49

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Yep, and it is an old school weight too. That wood is heavy. I guess it’s a good thing it’s “solid state” and not tubes.

MM54 > lone_liberal 04/07/2019 at 20:09

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The big question is if it can utilize those 4 channels for quadraphonic albums, and if you have any

lone_liberal > MM54 04/07/2019 at 20:14

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The answers are  an emphatic “Yes!” and a disappointed “no”. I’m also not sure if it has a stylus for quad sound but if it did it would play quadraphonic.

fintail > lone_liberal 04/07/2019 at 20:35

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I had something like this when I was a kid - the old couple across the street gave it to me when cleaning out their rec room.  I think my mom wanted to kill me when I dragged it home - I don’t recall how I moved it, but I did.  It had amazingly deep sound, and I even somewhat enjoyed the baroque 60s plood design.  I had to replace the stylus, and from then on it had no problems.  I think it might still be at my mom’s place somewhere.

lone_liberal > fintail 04/07/2019 at 20:44

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It does have a deep full sound . My wife remarked on how it sounds different than modern systems but not in a bad way. I remembered it sounding muddy but it wasn't at all. 

facw > lone_liberal 04/07/2019 at 20:58

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My grandfather had something like that in his basement . I’m pretty sure it was a bit broken though, touching the spindle gave a small shock (felt like licking a 9V battery), but presumably it was more powerful since it did that through dry skin.

lone_liberal > facw 04/07/2019 at 21:00

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Just a bit of a ground problem, eh? Sounds fun.

TheRealBicycleBuck > lone_liberal 04/07/2019 at 21:04

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And the memories come crashing back! We had a console system when I was a kid. I loved that thing. It disappeared when we moved to an apartment. I wonder what my mom did with it. 

NojustNo > lone_liberal 04/09/2019 at 19:53

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Cool! What does "timbre" adjust?

lone_liberal > NojustNo 04/09/2019 at 20:02

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I’ve been trying to figure that out. With a little googling it seems that it’s probably frequencies above the treble control. It’s weird that the bass and treble are four position switches while the timbre is a potentiometer but I guess the circuitry for these things is very different than we’re used to.