Top of the line February 1965

Motzart

Just for laughs I wanted to see what was "The Cats ****" in audio the month and year I was born.

Get a load of the "Top End" Speakers of the time!

Gosh I'm getting old!! :eek:

Motzart

Gezzzz My Grandparents had something similar to this when I was a Kid.
It was "The Stereo" to have in the mid to late 1960's.
Theirs had built-in speakers tho.
Grampa was big into Jazz/Big Band.....He played in a band at the time.
He had a ton of Jazz/Big Band records......like 300+
I had their old stereo at my last place but had to leave it due to a lack of a place to put it.
Don't recall the brand but my Dad retro'd it to hook up a 8 track player

Oh how technology has come in 40yrs!!

joeparaski

Pictures would be nice.

Joe

Motzart

joeparaski wrote: »

Pictures would be nice.

Joe

Sorry don't have any pics of it that I know of.
I do have a pic of Grampa with is band somewhere tho!

Fongolio

My mom and dad bought a Fleetwood console stereo right around that time (I just barely remember it coming home and I would have been 4 years old). It had a Gerrard turntable and state of the art mpx tuner. The speakers were in their own enclosures with tube ports. 10" woofer 5 1/2" mids and paper tweeters. The best part was it was all tube amp and pre. That thing sounded fantastic!! I didn't hear anything better for years and in fact took it with me when I left home years later. I had it until just a few years ago when I regrettably took it to the dump. Tube amps weren't nearly as popular as they are now again and afterwards I realised I'd tossed a piece of classic vintage audio that could easily have been restored. Even the cabinet was beautiful.

Motzart

Fongolio wrote: »

My mom and dad bought a Fleetwood console stereo right around that time (I just barely remember it coming home and I would have been 4 years old). It had a Gerrard turntable and state of the art mpx tuner. The speakers were in their own enclosures with tube ports. 10" woofer 5 1/2" mids and paper tweeters. The best part was it was all tube amp and pre. That thing sounded fantastic!! I didn't hear anything better for years and in fact took it with me when I left home years later. I had it until just a few years ago when I regrettably took it to the dump. Tube amps weren't nearly as popular as they are now again and afterwards I realised I'd tossed a piece of classic vintage audio that could easily have been restored. Even the cabinet was beautiful.

Yeah I spun a few records on the one I had....not the best turn table.
Got damn good AM reception....yeah they did sound great for the time.

hearingimpared

You pictures are not being displayed.

shack

hearingimpared wrote:

You pictures are not being displayed.

I was having trouble seeing them as well. You can go directily to pictures by using his link "properties" or I just saved them and downloaded them to the thread here....

hearingimpared

Thanks you Sir.

Motzart

My apologies!
Have them in a private album so maybe I'm the only one that can see em.
Sorry bout that......new lesson learned. :rolleyes:

Thanx for the fix Shack!

hearingimpared

shack wrote: »

I was having trouble seeing them as well. You can go directily to pictures by using his link "properties" or I just saved them and downloaded them to the thread here....

Wow am I getting old. I remember when "co-axial" and "loudspeaker" together was a big deal.