Interesting convergence on the Polk main page

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
in 2 Channel Audio
I was on a different computer today; without a direct link to the Polk forums (fourm.polkaudio.com -- yeah, yeah I should remember, but I am an old guy!) I went to the main Polk page www.polkaudio.com

Imagine my surprise to see a nubile woman applying a vinyl to a record player, thus:

lsim-flagship-tower-speakers-1-1.jpg

Now, the interesting part of this, to me isnt' the woman (I told you I was old!) but... what's the hifi gear? Well, I'll tell you... I'm not sure. I look at that receiver and the only thing that jumped into my mind was... a Radio Shack "Modulaire" compact component "hifi".

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source: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1973/h161.html

If not that, maybe an old (early 1970s), pre-Technics Panasonic... I dunno.

Haven't even tried to ID the rekkid playa... yet...
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,416
    I caught that too, but I think the gear is something else... Meridian perhaps?
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Just another example of how clueless the new Polk is.
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,639
    How about the record ???? :smile:
    ..
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
    indeed - I am curious about the album cover visible in the foreground, too... but there's just not enough resolution in the photo to make much of anything out.

    I cannot even tell if the tt has an S-shaped arm. My sense is that it does; that it's an early-mid 70s Japanese tt... but I absolutely cannot tell.

    I do think the 'receiver' is an early 1970s Panasonic, though (although it ought to have some push-button or toggle switch controls on the front panel, methinks, if it were thus).

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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    I thought it was a good throwback pic. Catalogs used to look like that. I like it.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    she is a throwback. Rip in the knee of her jeans and wears a watch.
    Asylum record?
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  • KrazyMofo24
    KrazyMofo24 Posts: 1,210
    The album cover is of the band Haim. I don't mind them but they are definitely a newer group.

    spin.com/articles/haim-days-are-gone-album-release-date/

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