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KennethSwauger wrote: »

Here's a photo of Sarah Vaughn and Quincy Jones in Paris in 1958. After looking at this photo I think Sarah is singing along with the tape playing. This is based on the expression on Quincy's face, he's looking like he's enjoying what she's doing. That's a beautiful suitcase recorder they're using.

Is it live, or is it Memorex?

Oh, I crack myself up sometimes!

I totally cannot tell what kind it is -- Telefunken, maybe? Nope, doesn't look like enough letters... So many European portables look(ed) like that recorder! I, briefly, "had" one, an Elizabethan I found (of course) at the Harvard, MA town dump. IIRC, it was a 220v machine and... I actually don't remember what became of it. It's not here now, I know that!

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mhardy6647 wrote: »

Grundig, maybe?

EDIT: Grundig TK830?
https://reel-reel.com/tape-recorder/grundig-tk-8303d/

Whatever it is, I really like the little zippered pouch in the top cover for the mics and cables

It is a Grundig, I think - my older cousin had one when I was a kid. The case was different, but I remember the zip. My temporary uncle (the guy who was around with his mother at the time) was a merchant sailor and gave me a tape recorder which he said was used on a ship. Whether they threw it away or he "liberated" it, I don't know. It was a Brenell. I can remember recording Top of the Pops off the BBC from the TV's speaker via a little crystal mic. I can also remember my cousin and I recording my mother snoring while asleep in her chair and her saying we had faked it. The recorder was in really bad shape, and it was in a wooden case with a hinged lid covered with sticky back plastic covering in a sort of fake marble pattern. On Googling, I think the wooden case was a mod and my closest memory is this:

KennethSwauger wrote: »

Ah, Grundig, good sleuthing Mark. I like the two foam dots on the lid's inside so any reels can be held when the case is closed.

I liked that as well. Not exactly pocket material those tape reels.

Louis Armstrong's home audio gear.

Starbucks wouldn't let the rover use the rest room without buying a Grande coffee -- and the rover was told it could just forget about using the WiFi.

^^^I read about that DIY project a couple years ago. Definitely a labor of love

Quite the Legend!

Mountains National Park, TN.

Early surround sound.

KennethSwauger wrote: »

Early surround sound.

We call(ed) that quad.
It was a thing.



scan0002 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

Oh, I should mention -- I am pretty sure those AKAI speakers are TL cabinets loaded with rather nice Fostex "fullrange" 4" drivers (akin to the famous/infamous Radio Shack 40-1197/Fostex FE-103 drivers).

Now:
I see your AKAI and raise you pair of "Horrortones".