Admit it, you bought something from DAK industries ...

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verb Posts: 10,176
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I admit it. I bought a pair of these beauties? Couldn't afford much else, to naive to know better, and yes I was mesmerized by those quite verbose data vacant advertisements.

I can only say this was an early baby set on my journey ...

The infamous DAK Colossus Speakers !!!

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Come on and step up to the confessional ... Post pics !!!
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Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
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Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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  • kharp1
    kharp1 Posts: 3,453
    I'm sure I had something from them, but can't, for the life of me, recall what. Use to look forward to their catalog back before I knew better.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149
    I think I bought one item from DAK. A 1200 baud modem. I think modems were one of their big sellers. I bought one to use with a Televideo 950 dumb terminal. Just under a hundred bucks, I think. Probably a little earlier than 1987 but not much earlier. Hey it worked well. I think I had to use an IBM serial printer with the Televideo. Then a few years later I networked about five early PC's together in a Novell network, that was a royal pain.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,164
    I loved looking at and reading their advertisements in stereo Review, I think it was. It was GREAT advertising!

    I couldn't afford anything from them though. I've seen one of those sets of speakers on our local CL a year or 2 ago. The owner wanted 200 bucks for them. :o
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,983
    An Emerson "hi-fi" VHS player, what a pos that was.
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    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,911
    edited January 2018
    I never bought anything from Drew A Kaplan -- but my father in law bought a carton of cassette tapes from him/them. I don't think they were consequential.

    Also, I do have a "Cerwin-Vega" coffee-table subwoofer in the basement which I believe was of DAK provenance -- but I found it at the Harvard (MA) town dump, so I cannot confirm that it was from DAK.

    Borrowed images, but the aforementioned "subwoofer" looks like this:

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,576
    My very first subwoofer WAY back in the day..... I bought it soon after I paid off my loan on my Cerwin Vega D7's .... gosh those parties were EPIC !!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,911
    edited January 2018
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    My very first subwoofer WAY back in the day..... I bought it soon after I paid off my loan on my Cerwin Vega D7's .... gosh those parties were EPIC !!
    Did you get it from DAK? ;)

    I should really get rid of it -- but I keep meaning to put a new foam surround (red, of course!) on it and fire it up... someday...

    I couldn't confirm the DAK connection to this model via Google this AM when I posted the borrowed photos... but I am pretty sure I Googled it some years back & read something, somewhere that implicated DAK as a marketing channel for it :)

    The DAK catalogs were great, weren't they? Such purple prose for such -- second-tier (or third, or fourth) products. :) When I read Steve Deckert's (www.decware.com) hyperbolic praise for his own products*, I figure Deckert must've cut his teeth on DAK catalogs ;)

    ________________
    * Don't get me wrong, the Decware stuff is perfectly OK (if not inexpensive any more)... but Steve's over-the-top prose kind of sticks in my craw :|

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,983
    Their catalogues were the very definition of hyperbole. They had great pics though.
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,911
    edited January 2018
    The hifi stuff he sold tended to be weird. Just a little -- off, you know? :|
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,576
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    My very first subwoofer WAY back in the day..... I bought it soon after I paid off my loan on my Cerwin Vega D7's .... gosh those parties were EPIC !!
    Did you get it from DAK? ;)

    I should really get rid of it -- but I keep meaning to put a new foam surround (red, of course!) on it and fire it up... someday...

    I couldn't confirm the DAK connection to this model via Google this AM when I posted the borrowed photos... but I am pretty sure I Googled it some years back & read something, somewhere that implicated DAK as a marketing channel for it :)

    Nope never heard of DAK TBH. I bought mine from my local Cerwin Vega dealer same as I bought my D7's from.

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,953
    If you like running an EQ for the ability to fine tune your sound, you could upgrade to this bad boy, at least that way you'd be doing a better job at preserving your sonics/details: http://www.schiit.com/products/loki
    verb wrote: »
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.

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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
    verb wrote: »
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.
    I have one of those, too! The members here destroyed me for the way the EQ was set when I had posted this picture, years ago. In all fairness, I had hooked this stuff up in the photo to see if it still worked and did that for the picture. They normally were pretty close to a straight line, except for a little ghetto bass boost.

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    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
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    verb Posts: 10,176
    Hermitism wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.
    I have one of those, too! The members here destroyed me for the way the EQ was set when I had posted this picture, years ago. In all fairness, I had hooked this stuff up in the photo to see if it still worked and did that for the picture. They normally were pretty close to a straight line, except for a little ghetto bass boost.

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    Love it!!! And the double cassette deck !!!
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,885
    I bought a program from DAK called the Pop and Click Assassin.
    Worked well
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    Because I am The Pumpkinking


    A Kind Word Is An Easy Gift To Give
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    verb Posts: 10,176
    Clipdat wrote: »
    If you like running an EQ for the ability to fine tune your sound, you could upgrade to this bad boy, at least that way you'd be doing a better job at preserving your sonics/details: http://www.schiit.com/products/loki
    verb wrote: »
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.

    Sweet!!! I need to get my Schiit together ...
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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    verb Posts: 10,176
    pumpkinman wrote: »
    I bought a program from DAK called the Pop and Click Assassin.
    Worked well

    Long live DAK industries!!! They are back in business!!!

    That software is still available today I believe.
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
    My ADC CD-100X CD player came from them, also. Still works, but was retired long ago.

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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
    This thread made me go through a bunch of old magazines last night that I had saved. Found a bunch of J&R Music World, some gun magazines, Sharper Image, Skin Diver, some old Playboys that embarrassingly had some sticky pages :open_mouth: The real find was some late 70's O.G. Wilson catalogs that I used to make my Santa Lists when I was a kid. All those vintage Star Wars toys! I wish those toys were still in their original boxes.
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  • dolbyd
    dolbyd Posts: 430
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I never bought anything from Drew A Kaplan -- but my father in law bought a carton of cassette tapes from him/them. I don't think they were consequential.

    Also, I do have a "Cerwin-Vega" coffee-table subwoofer in the basement which I believe was of DAK provenance -- but I found it at the Harvard (MA) town dump, so I cannot confirm that it was from DAK.

    Borrowed images, but the aforementioned "subwoofer" looks like this:

    yxwcja2sgf4e.png

    zmnln5m2qs0n.png



    That was my very first sub. Got it from Crutchfield. Ran it with a Pioneer Sx receiver and a pair of Bose 401’s.

    Catalogs were fun to get in those days.

    Main room- RTiA9 x4, CSiA6, in ceiling Atmos RT-70 x4, SVS PC 4000 x2, Marantz 8805A, OPPO 203, Emotiva DR3 G3, Emotiva XPA-2 G3, Emotiva XPA-5 G3, Emotiva X300, Sony 75" 940E, Panasonic Plasma VT50, PS Audio Power Port X2, PS Audio AC-5 x8, AQ Rocket 33 Biwire speaker cables, AQ King Cobra XLR IC, Furman PFi20 W/Cullen cable, SoildSteel S4-4 rack, Gik room treatments

    Office- Legend L600, in ceiling Polk RC80i, Marantz 7704, OPPO 203, Pioneer Elite PDF-59 CD, PSA Stellar 300, Sony 55" 800B, Gik room treatment

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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    verb wrote: »
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.

    I bought one of those many years ago as well, thinking mid to late 80’s??

    Not sure what happened to it???
    Pio Elete Pro 520
    Panamax 5400-EX
    Sunfire TGP 5
    Micro Seiki DD-40 - Lyra-Dorian and Denon DL-160
    PS Audio GCPH phono pre
    Sunfire CG 200 X 5
    Sunfire CG Sig 405 X 5
    OPPO BDP-83 SE
    SDA SRS 1.2TL Sonicaps and Mills
    Ctr CS1000p
    Sur - FX1000 x 4
    SUB - SVS PB2-Plus

    Workkout room:
    Sony Bravia XBR- 32-Inch 1080p
    Onkyo TX-DS898
    GFA 555
    Yamaha DVD-S1800BL/SACD
    Ft - SDA 1C

    Not being used:
    RTi 38's -4
    RT55i's - 2
    RT25i's -2, using other 2 in shop
    LSI 15's
    CSi40
    PSW 404
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    Hermitism wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.
    I have one of those, too! The members here destroyed me for the way the EQ was set when I had posted this picture, years ago. In all fairness, I had hooked this stuff up in the photo to see if it still worked and did that for the picture. They normally were pretty close to a straight line, except for a little ghetto bass boost.

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    That’s the one I had.
    Pio Elete Pro 520
    Panamax 5400-EX
    Sunfire TGP 5
    Micro Seiki DD-40 - Lyra-Dorian and Denon DL-160
    PS Audio GCPH phono pre
    Sunfire CG 200 X 5
    Sunfire CG Sig 405 X 5
    OPPO BDP-83 SE
    SDA SRS 1.2TL Sonicaps and Mills
    Ctr CS1000p
    Sur - FX1000 x 4
    SUB - SVS PB2-Plus

    Workkout room:
    Sony Bravia XBR- 32-Inch 1080p
    Onkyo TX-DS898
    GFA 555
    Yamaha DVD-S1800BL/SACD
    Ft - SDA 1C

    Not being used:
    RTi 38's -4
    RT55i's - 2
    RT25i's -2, using other 2 in shop
    LSI 15's
    CSi40
    PSW 404
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
    dolbyd wrote: »
    That was my very first sub. Got it from Crutchfield. Ran it with a Pioneer Sx receiver and a pair of Bose 401’s.

    Catalogs were fun to get in those days.
    Did it look like this:

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,911
    dolbyd wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I never bought anything from Drew A Kaplan -- but my father in law bought a carton of cassette tapes from him/them. I don't think they were consequential.

    Also, I do have a "Cerwin-Vega" coffee-table subwoofer in the basement which I believe was of DAK provenance -- but I found it at the Harvard (MA) town dump, so I cannot confirm that it was from DAK.

    Borrowed images, but the aforementioned "subwoofer" looks like this:

    yxwcja2sgf4e.png

    zmnln5m2qs0n.png



    That was my very first sub. Got it from Crutchfield. Ran it with a Pioneer Sx receiver and a pair of Bose 401’s.

    Catalogs were fun to get in those days.

    Oh, I think that they still are :)

    images from
    http://www.scratchboarddesigns.com/index.php/books/2013-music-direct-catalog/

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,911
    Hermitism wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    2nd confession. I still run my BSR equalizer from DAK !!! Yes yes I know I’m gonna get hit, but bring it on !!! What? I’m running an equalizer? Shame. I was mesmerized by the red LED sliders and the graphic spectrum analyzer display !!! It does have a pink noise generator which is pretty cool. Pics to follow.
    I have one of those, too! The members here destroyed me for the way the EQ was set when I had posted this picture, years ago. In all fairness, I had hooked this stuff up in the photo to see if it still worked and did that for the picture. They normally were pretty close to a straight line, except for a little ghetto bass boost.

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    Hey -- at least your EQ settings are way less inciteful than the traditional smile! :)

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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Hey -- at least your EQ settings are way less inciteful than the traditional smile! :)
    I thought of you when I started posting pictures of old equipment and magazines. Every time you post pics of your old equipment I start to salivate. You have such cool stuff. All my old stuff is crap!

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,911
    ^^^ That Nakamichi shouldn't be cr@p :)
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    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,911
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ^^^ That Nakamichi shouldn't be cr@p :)
    Unfortunately, it doesn't work. It was given to me by someone I used to do some work for. When I got it, I only had sound from one channel, now neither work. My hope is that it just needs a belt job. I'd love to get it working again, but fear the cost, just to have a nice tape deck. Although I don't see it getting much use, but would be fun to rock out on some homemade road tapes. You know the kind, you sit near your tape deck for hours waiting for a certain song to come on the radio, only to have the DJ talk through the first 20 seconds of the song! I have a first generation Miata that rarely gets driven that still rocks a tape deck. I should pull out those road tapes from yesteryear and jam to some Phil Collins! I've already got the Crockett stubble.

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