Unusual HiFi products from the past.
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oh, that's a statement piece, all righty.
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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »Saw this on FB today.
You're not fooling us, Harry! We know you are holding out for the one with the disco ball!
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You're not fooling us, Harry! We know you are holding out for the one with the disco ball!
Is that disco ballin' on a budget?
(asking for a friend)
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
Got one of these in 1980 and it joined my Rotel RX 503 receiver, Leak Sandwich 300s and Wharfedale Dentons. Got the NAD from a (small) store that I walked by on the way to work that I had noticed for a couple of years previous when NAD went by the full name of New Acoustic Dimension. Thought it was a really pretentious name, so took no interest until I saw a review of the 3020 ! -
Great combination! We used to sell the 3020 with an Oracle Alexandria and Sonus cartridge with Spica TC50 speakers and Kimber Kable. That system would easily hold its own today. I still have a 3020.
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Ha, I actually have a couple of those carts. My understanding is that they were made by Zenn for Klipsch. The MCZ came in four versions of different cantilever material - aluminum, boron, ruby, and diamond.SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
Here's one of mine in action:
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
Ha, I actually have a couple of those carts. My understanding is that they were made by Zenn for Klipsch. The MCZ came in four versions of different cantilever material - aluminum, boron, ruby, and diamond.
Here's one of mine in action:
remarkable! (and cool!)
Do you know the timeframe from whence this dates?
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I read some 'new' price quotes from 1982.
Here's the intro from the brochure:
More information is available in the VinylEngine library here: https://www.vinylengine.com/library/klipsch/mcz-2.shtml
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
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Ha, I actually have a couple of those carts. My understanding is that they were made by Zenn for Klipsch. The MCZ came in four versions of different cantilever material - aluminum, boron, ruby, and diamond.
Here's one of mine in action:
I see elasto-dampening quarter is still a go to method
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Hope that this doesn’t devolve into a debate about quarters vs nickels vs pennies or blu-tack vs chewing gum.
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Spearmint Blu-Tack works best.
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It's actually a dime!"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
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^^^ I had one of those (as well as a couple of LAB 80s)... I wasn't too impressed, FWIW.
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Wondering if the Morse was the same as the Morse code folks?
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Don't have a 101, but I do have a couple of 102s
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I wish now that I would have kept a CDP-101, they didn't sound great but were well built. The same with one of the early Philips players. A bit of history.
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early Sony lasers are bullet proof.
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »I wish now that I would have kept a CDP-101, they didn't sound great but were well built. The same with one of the early Philips players. A bit of history.
I was within inches of acquiring one of the original model Maggotbox Magnavox branded (US) Philips CD players, in its original box, on the swap pile at the good ol' Harvard, MA town dump (many years ago). I got to chattin' with a friend and one of my dump-diver colleagues swooped in and snagged it.
Not that I am bitter or anything...
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Lost an hk630 to the same fellow once under similar circumstances, now that I think about it.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Lost an hk630 to the same fellow once under similar circumstances, now that I think about it.
The moral of the story, shut your trap there's plenty of time to flap your gums when the picking is done.... -
The moral of the story, shut your trap there's plenty of time to flap your gums when the picking is done....
Kenny Rogers, right?
In seriousness -- naah, the dump was all about building relationships. The dumpster diving was just the icing on the cake.
It was (is) the social and political hub of the town. Campaigning for town elected positions always involves a few Sadurday mornings at the dump.
