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  • Realistic STA-77a I just restored

    Just wanted to share a picture or two of my dad's old Realistic receiver I've been working on. He bought it new back in '77 and used it regularly up until the mid 90's. At some point it developed a p…
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  • Since Mark is bragging on his son....

    I want to brag on mine a little too. A little background info first: I live in Paris, Arkansas which is a small ~ 4000 person town roughly halfway between Ft. Smith Arkansas and Russellville, Arkansa…
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  • Re: George Grand

    I'm very sorry to hear this. I never got to meet George, but I communicated with him somewhat regularly over the years and I bought some gear and quite a few records from him. Way back when I joined …
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  • Re: This joint needs some more vintage hifi

    Got this elegant-looking Nikko NR-1019 on my bench (er,uh.., the breakfast table) tonight. It works. Needs a good cleaning. But, whoops!-- Looks like someone has installed an odd-ball output transist…
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  • Re: The Book of Micah

    Seems like every now and then we have one of these threads where we reminisce, and talk about the "good ol' days" when the Polk forum was 18 members. I suppose that's what happens as we all…
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