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jazzy_dave ([personal profile] jazzy_dave) wrote2015-11-08 05:22 pm
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New Old Hi Fi System

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] cmcmck and hubby for the donation of this Technics system. Already listened to the CD and played a few twelve inch singles on it. Picked it up from their Gillingham home today. Speakers next visit, so i am using my headphones at the moment.

They are a wonderful couple, and it was great to finally meet up with her.

[personal profile] ex_christina_maria783 2015-11-08 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
That looks very nice. =D

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2015-11-08 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you are enjoying!

We're pleased to have found an appreciative home for it!

it was good to finally meet you too.

I think I've found the missing plug- it had ended up in a box with another amplifier from our spare system that it didn't belong to! Dunno how that happened.

[identity profile] davesmusictank.livejournal.com 2015-11-08 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh well, i will pick it up with the speakers on my next visit. I have already been listening to some old classic LP's of mine , Al Green - Full of Fire, and John Kongos - Kongos LP, both early seventies plus a few disco twelve inchers and some of that Sibelius CD.

Do you know roughly the size of the speakers as i may bring a trolley suitcase to bring them in.

BTW - rediscovering music is real fun. Thanks again.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
I think they'd go into a medium sized case if you have such- they're a medium sized set.

Glad you're enjoying!

[identity profile] thespian15.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Sweet. :)

And lucky you for getting to meet up with [livejournal.com profile] cmcmck. :)
Hugs, Jon

[identity profile] texasts.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa! Dual Cassettes and a turntable too. Think I've got a deck under my bed. Tapes in the closet.

*grins*

[identity profile] a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
YAY for meeting friends - and for lovely gifts!! That is an EPIC system! I used to have one exactly like it!

*Happy!Hugs!*

; )

[identity profile] pigshitpoet.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
nice

[identity profile] kabuldur.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome! A very good brand.

And how cool to meet up with cmcmck and her husband :)
Edited 2015-11-09 11:34 (UTC)

[identity profile] mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, shiny!

[identity profile] ladyblue56.livejournal.com 2015-11-09 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice setup!

[identity profile] porsupah.livejournal.com 2015-11-15 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Already listened to the CD and played a few twelve inch singles on it

That phrasing is causing the technologist side of my brain some considerable aching. ^_^; I think I see what you mean, though.

At least, I do hope so. =:)

I miss my original hi-fi. Well, not mine as such - the family's, really. It was made for us by a family friend, back when we had a little "country club" (now up for sale - yours for only around £850,000!), where I in fact came into the world. It was, physically, like a long table/desk that opened up, if you get my meaning, in three sections: on the left, the AM/FM radio (with magic eye tuning indicator!), in the middle, a reel to reel tape deck, and on the right, a record player, with the amplifier built into one of the sections, plus a couple control switches to enable a feed to another set of speakers.

It was a good setup. I remember Terry Wogan's dulcet tones coming over its speakers (again, built for the system). Eventually, of course, it packed in, let alone being a hefty piece of equipment - but it served its time very well, and made possible many happy evenings.

[identity profile] davesmusictank.livejournal.com 2015-11-15 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, i really meant to say playing the vinyl on the deck part of it, not the CD player, lol!

[identity profile] davesmusictank.livejournal.com 2015-11-15 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
It is great listening to vinyl gain though.