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In my last post I mentioned a Zenith record player. Some folks asked for details. Here is the goodie on the right. This is a Zenith C587 that they called an All-In-One Music System. It features a pretty good turntable, AM/FM radio, and a pair of surprisingly decent speakers. My …
A great day recently! A friend is moving and decided that she had too many record albums. Oh, can that really be a problem? Knowing that I am a Ventures fan (Tacoma’s favorite rock band, you know) she offered to send me her three albums. Who am I to say …
I was passing the Restore shop last week and on a lark decided to stop in. As usual, there was a great selection of furniture, but I was heading toward the record bins. That day the bins were nearly empty, but one of the containers had this gem from 1966. …
A few weeks ago I picked up this very cool reel-to-reel tape, American Caravan: A Columbia Musical Treasury. You can see in the photo to the right that is was “Recorded in Dynamic Dimension Sound”, whatever that means. My best guess is that it is Columbia’s term for some sort …
Setting the Scene Not too many years ago “everyone” knew the differences between record players and turntables. Record players came first while turntables as we know them are really a product of the HiFi rise of the 1950s. Over the last decade or three, as portable music players became popular …
My vintage Technics SL-BD20 turntable has worked perfectly for a very long time. In fact, since the late 1980s this turntable has been absolutely fantastic! Unfortunately, some weeks ago the tonearm suddenly stopped performing an automatic return at the end of a record. This was a big mystery and I …
I must be on a roll because here is another LP that I turned up for a mere $.99. Montovani’s Golden Hits is really a very good album, if you like easy listening, of course. I figure that an $.99 I couldn’t go wrong. Very mellow, you know.
If turning it up to 20 is a big deal (“because it’s louder”), then turning it up to 20 must be outrageous! Here we see the markings on an Onkyo TC-2500MKII, and, sure enough, they go all the way up top 20. Batten down the hatches because it is going …
On a hunch that I might find something cool, I stopped into the local Goodwill store. Luck was on my side and I discovered this LP, ShaNaNa’s ShaNaNow. I have been looking for something from ShaNaNa for some time, but it appears that their records are a little hard to …
I dropped by the local Habitat for Humanity Restore shop the other day and came across this gem for only $2. It sounded pretty good, but after I cleaned it up with the Secret Sauce from Last Vestige it sounded even better. Check out Montovani Magic below.
