If 1971 ever comes back...

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
edited August 2011 in Vintage Speakers
I'm ready for it!

ARS1971cover.jpg

This catalog is from the very brief period when Tandy owned both Radio Shack and Allied Electronics' consumer electronics businesses. The history is recounted at www.radioshackcatalogs.com Unfortunately, that great site apparently doesn't have a scan of this one at the moment.

This catalog basically has all of the stuff R/S was selling at the time plus all the stuff Allied was selling. It's kind of an amazing hodge-podge; from junk to superb.

Gotta love the female cover model's expression, too! :-)
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  • OldmanSRS
    OldmanSRS Posts: 419
    edited August 2011
    That receiver would cost $2,786 in today's money!
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited August 2011
    As a kid I remember my Dad's Allied receiver. It wasn't as fancy as the one in the photo, but I was not allowed to touch it.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited August 2011
    I've got a few Allied catalogs from the late 50's I'll have to dig out now.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited August 2011
    Wow 350 watts.

    I was 1 year old then. :eek:
    --Gary--
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    heiney9 wrote: »
    As a kid I remember my Dad's Allied receiver. It wasn't as fancy as the one in the photo, but I was not allowed to touch it.

    H9

    The one on this cover is a Pioneer OEM.
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    I've got a few Allied catalogs from the late 50's I'll have to dig out now.

    oooh... nice! :-)
    halo71 wrote: »
    Wow 350 watts.

    I was 1 year old then. :eek:
    Not after the FTC's ruling in 1974 it wouldn't be :-)

    For the record, I was in fricking junior high school in 1971 :-P
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    I don't know about you - but I'd take out a loan to stock up on those $109 Altec 602D "special purchase" coaxes if the opportunity were to present itself :-)

    ARD1971coaxes.jpg
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited August 2011
    Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Mark. Allied continues to be a top notch company selling all kinds of electronic parts. Just this last week I had a problem with a power transistor that wasn't measuring the same current gain as the other three. The account rep I work with responded to my email within five minutes of sending a message to her. She quickly sent me a replacement transistor as a "sample" avoiding any bookkeeping problems. The other thing about them is that you can rely on getting genuine parts not a knock off. I encourage DIYers to check them out.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    I still have a copy of Allied's paper catalog (which, admittedly, is a few years old - but not ancient) on my bookshelf at work - just in case :-)
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  • OldmanSRS
    OldmanSRS Posts: 419
    edited August 2011
    You haven't really lived until you've made out with a chick wearing those head phones.

    Just saying...
    '65 427 Shelby Cobra
    '72 Triumph TR-6
    __________________
    '88 Polk SDA SRS 1.2, with upgraded XO caps and Erse SDA inductors
    '86 Polk SDA CRS+
    '84 Polk Monitor 10A (Peerless tweeters)
    '05 HSU VTF-3 Sub (Original OEM)
    '20 HSU VTF-3 Sub (three more, 100% cloned)
    '93 Carver TFM-35
    '88 Carver M-1.0t
    '88 Adcom GFT-555
    '88 Adcom GFP-555
    '88 Adcom GFA-555 (upgraded/restored)
    '88 Adcom GFA-555 (a second one upgraded/restored)
    '05 Onkyo DV-555 media
    '89 Fosgate 360 Digital Space Matrix
    '89 Fosgate 360 Digital Space Matrix, internal surround amp bridged to drive only a center channel
    '91 Kenwood Basic M1D Amp
    '89 Pioneer Laser Disc media
    '89 Sony SuperBeta HiFi media
    One PGA2310 based custom built remote volume control
    Four Polk T-15's
    Four Polk TSi-200's
    Four Polk TSi-100's
    Two Polk CS-10's
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2011
    1971 swung around about an hour and a half ago. Pair of Kef "Concerto" inspected by Kef QC in 1971. Three-way ported affair, 3/4" dome tweet, 4 or 5" cone mids w/butyl surround, and oval woofers. The woofer basket is 13" long end to long end, but actual radiating surface is only 9" x 5 1/2", not including surrounds. Light wood flavored cabs need love, but no crushed corners.

    Just what I needed.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    George Grand wrote: »
    1971 swung around about an hour and a half ago. Pair of Kef "Concerto" inspected by Kef QC in 1971. Three-way ported affair, 3/4" dome tweet, 4 or 5" cone mids w/butyl surround, and oval woofers. The woofer basket is 13" long end to long end, but actual radiating surface is only 9" x 5 1/2", not including surrounds. Light wood flavored cabs need love, but no crushed corners.

    Just what I needed.

    If they need another home... :-)
    Those are superb, if memory serves.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    If they need another home... :-)
    Those are superb, if memory serves.

    These just might end up part of my GArage rig. They need to sound as good as the big-**** E-V "Marquis" that are in there already number one, and have to have enough "headroom" for me to pile up as much stuff on them as the E-V number two. Pretty rigid regs here at No Concerno Labs.
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  • jim 249
    jim 249 Posts: 347
    edited August 2011
    A pair of Allied Speakers I use in my garage to test amps, receivers etc.:biggrin:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    George Grand wrote: »
    These just might end up part of my GArage rig. They need to sound as good as the big-**** E-V "Marquis" that are in there already number one, and have to have enough "headroom" for me to pile up as much stuff on them as the E-V number two. Pretty rigid regs here at No Concerno Labs.

    They'll be a lot more polite than the Marquises, George (which should come as no surprise). Dunno how well they'll stack up at stacking up, though.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited August 2011
    I just picked up a low end (Shack) Allied Receiver to use in the Kitchen (FM) (yard sale) and pit it against an old Ratshack STA-95--tuner for tuner; the little Allied embarrassed the over 4 X the price 95 for reception and clarity on FM?

    1971...that was a good year as I remember, and from the looks of it, Mark and I were 'classmates' of a kind. Don't you just hate counting off all those Birthdays?

    cnh
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    HS class of 76... right this minute, I actually wish I were a tad more than two years older, but this is related more to the vagaries of Big Business and retirement plans than a wish to be old :-P
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    Only on the cover of the Allied Electronics catalog could the Buddy Holly lookalike geek-nerd get the hot Katie Douglass girl in the clingy knit minidress-thing.

    Allied1969.jpg
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2011
    The AA girls touch themselves when they wear headphones.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    while I am on this sort-of sexist topic... so, tell me, you 21st Century audiophile guys; does your Significant Other ever stare raptly at your... equipment?

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  • cubdog
    cubdog Posts: 835
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    while I am on this sort-of sexist topic... so, tell me, you 21st Century audiophile guys; does your Significant Other ever stare raptly at your... equipment?

    raptmaenad.jpg

    "What a big pair you have",she said deamily.

    cubdog
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    while I am on this sort-of sexist topic... so, tell me, you 21st Century audiophile guys; does your Significant Other ever stare raptly at your... equipment?

    raptmaenad.jpg

    The receiver in that photo is the exact model my Dad had when I was growing up. He had it for quite awhile and I'm sure we ended up selling it in a garage sale in the early 90's.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    Allied 380; Pioneer OEM. Catalog says 32 wpc (rms) into 4 ohms.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Allied 380; Pioneer OEM. Catalog says 32 wpc (rms) into 4 ohms.

    He drove a pair of Utah speakers. 12" woof 3-way Walnut cabinets sealed cabinet w/oatmeal cloth.

    Music was always playing when I was growing up. LP's and then cassette tapes.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    Sounds like my childhood home, too. EICO vacuum tube amps, tuner, and EV Wolverine twincone "fullrange" speakers... and a VM changer that could stack 10 12" LPs - and frequently did.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited August 2011
    After a stare like that, they usually cut away to:
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    >This message has been scanned by the NSA and found to be free of harmful intent.<
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    Polkersince85 wrote: »
    After a stare like that, they usually cut away to:

    or maybe a train entering a tunnel...

    ;-)
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  • HB27
    HB27 Posts: 1,518
    edited August 2011
    I loved to build the old Allied kits. I'd get my check and head to Allied or Tandy/Radio Shack and grab the newest kit on the shelf.
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