In here share your childhood related audio-gears, music, songs that still makes you feel good about the world.
As a child I spend many hours listening to my parents music cassette with the sony CF 530 L. After my family moved to a different country I couldnt take that beast with me, but I managed to bring the first ever AM radio I owned, which by the way still works! I will try to find it and take a picture of it hopefully soon.
I still remember the bass impact they had! And yes those two round things in the corner from memory are infact tweeter drives! It even had a decent EQ steup!
I still remember my first portable cassette player. It was a large PINK Toshiba that I paid $40 for. Then it was a pair of Sony MDR-V6 headphones that I paid $99 for, I was so happy.
In high school, my parents had full size speakers, receiver, etc... and it sounded good but I seemed happier with a cheap plastic boom box. These days, I wouldn't be caught dead with a boom box but in a pinch, they can be decent.
I used to love cassettes but these days, I seem to dislike them. I do have fond memories of those Maxell cassettes though.
Slightly off topic: I'm curious if cassette is a French word. It does sound French.
My parents had a stereo system, like full size speakers and receiver, turntable, CD player and all of that. In fact, I still have all the components and speakers, save for the CD player which died a few years ago. The speakers were Sony SS-U500. I loved those, and still do enjoy listening to them. But my Pioneer CS-77's took the spot as top dog since I got them about a year ago.
The receiver was a Pioneer SX-40. I still love that as well, although it needs the speaker relays replaced. Love the green display, I remember staring at it as a kid being fascinated with just how music was being created in front of me, by that device. And the turntable is still being used as well, Pioneer PL-4. Heck, my dad had a pair of Sony studio monitors, which I forget the model of, but they resemble the MDR-V600. I remember being thrilled when he let me use them, because I thought they sounded great. (Compared to my dollar store ones my mom got me lol).
And yeah, I love cassette tapes. My parents never really got into them, as they went from vinyl to CD. However, I acquired quite a few as a kid. I remember listening to Green Day's Dookie on cassette (the tape was blue).
My parents had a big "console" TV with a built-in AM/FM stereo radio on one end and a record changer on the other. This thing was ~6 feet long, made of solid wood and had hinged wooden lids on the top over the radio controls and the turntable. It was similar to this one:
I bought my first system in 1977. It was a Kenwood 40 wpc integrated amp and a matching tuner, with a Hitachi cassette deck and a Technics direct drive turntable. It had a pair of "DWD Audio" 3-way speakers with 12" woofers and rear-facing 12" passive radiators. I think they were made in Fresno, CA. The speakers were definitely the weak link in the system - I blew the tweeter out of one of them a couple of years later, and the woofers eventually disintegrated. I also had a pair of Sennheiser HD414 'phones - they were better than my speakers!
Thank gawd for google & ebay - I can't believe I found a picture of those speakers!
Actually now that I think about it, my family was definitely into audio. My sister had one of these - it folded-up like a suitcase - except her's was light blue:
My Mom had this baby and a box of big band 45's and 78's. I used it to listen to Chipmunk's Christmas songs:
My older brother (who had ALL the cool stuff) had a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder. It was a different model from this one (older I think), but it was similar:
My first record player looked similar to this. I was around 4 years old at the time. The only record I had was Frosty the Snowman.
I was given a record player similar to this when I was a little older to go in my room. I don't remember what happened to it, probably thrown in the trash at some point.
Seriously, with that post, you've basically recreated my youth. My parents and I would listen to Simon and Garfunkel all the time. We had their vinyl and cassettes tapes, CD's too. But the biggest thing was the cassette recorder. I had one that looked so close to that. It was an Emerson. I remember that stuff man. It's crazy how time flies.
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