400 Disc Sony CD Changer. [Link: remotecentral.com]

5 Disc CD Changer.

Pioneer 3-Cartridge CD Changer. Client still has one.

My direct drive turntable. It was a Marantz model, but when I was working at Marantz I borrowed it from Product Development to see if I could get it to play at 78 rpm. After figuring out which two capacitors to replace in the oscillator circuit to get it near 78 rpm, I did so, slapped a strobe disc on it, set it to 78 rpm, and let it run over the weekend. On Monday it was still running -- no failure, no fire, right speed -- and I was able to buy it for twenty bucks because it was just an evaluation sample made by a Korean company named CEC. It's four feet behind me right now.

Anything solid state.

ICs are solid state. If it's not solid state, it's tubes. Or wind-up Victrolas. Or ropes and pulleys.

My bad! What I meant to say was amps or receivers with output transistors.

Or any Hi Fi stuff out there before CD players existed... 8>)

The term for that is discrete circuitry. Discrete meaning single components, like discrete IR commands do single things, as opposed to output ICs and other ICs.


Defineeto!

This is vintage-

[Link: midcenturyaudio.com]

 

You ain't seen nothin.' Starting with the fact that the normal record 'single' of the day was a ten inch 78, and classical things were on 12" records (I have Beethoven's Ninth Symphone on eight 12" records, meant to be played as a stack, turned over, and played again as a stack):


For many years I had the 18" woofer with electromagnet that came out of a behemoth cabinet from the late thirties.

See [Link: myvintagetv.com]

Me too!

RX-V2092

DSP-A1

RX-V1

RX-Z11

Wow, that's some amazing engineering for the day.

Sort of reminds me of the 2nd turn table I owned, the ADC Accutrac Plus 6. That what a pricey piece as an 18 year old. Think I paid nearly $400 for it. Very cutting edge for the early 80's.

Not an 18", but this amp has a Rola field coil speaker and after I replaced the electrolytics, rectifier tube and power cord (the original had about 2" of insulation missing from both wires), it sounds great. I haven't seen another one exactly like it, anywhere- similar- all of the others have an octal plug for removing the chassis without the speaker and different tubes, other than the 6L6G output tube. The earliest it could be is late 1936, since that's when the 6L6G became available, from what I have read.

The amp in the link is similar to mine (it has the aluminum tube covers and extra grid wires) but I don't see the big 30uF caps that are in mine.

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OTOH, I had a pair of EV 30W, originally used for the bass pedals of a church organ and I wish I still had them.
 

No need to be sorry Ed, I didn't write the article.

"Cutting edge", but only because it had the silver, flying killer ball from Phantasm. As a turntable and especially WRT the cartridge, it wasn't great. If the sensor failed, it was just a mediocre turntable.

We called it 'Accujack'. How was the sound, compared with other turntables?

Am I being blunt? Yes. Are we critical of other AV equipment when sound/video quality are sacrificed for bells and whistles? Absolutely.

In our repair department, it was finicky and hard to make work well. For us, it was Accutrash.

There was also Junk-rard, RCA Victim, Hitrashi, Kenwouldn't, Sansewage... could go on.

I still use a circa 1989 Mcintosh receiver pushing a pair of Klipsch Chorus speakers I bought from a friend of mine a few years ago when his mom passed away for near nothing- they are literally mint condition and sound amazing..
Back then I coveted the PROTON D1200 amps with the green/blue sweep meters. Headroom BABY!!

The Capeheart stuff is some of the coolest sh#t ever!!!