DoogUK wrote:
Some of us like the fact we can still use 20 year old hardware...
:-D
Sorry - but I feel I have to go slightly OT here.
Today is my Dad's 80th birthday and I prepared a big surprise for him.
When he was 18-20, he got himself a "music center" consisting of a record changer for old shellack disc recordings (78 rpm), LW/MW receiver, loudspeaker box and 2 record racks for 100 shellack records (50 each) - all fitted into a sort of sideboard.
When my parents and I fled from the "German Democratic Republic" in August 1959, my father had to leave his "music center" with all his records behind. My grandparents took it and later my aunt.
At some point in time my uncle didn't like the "music center" anymore and chopped it up - after dismounting the turntable drive. He had it in his basement for decades and after the iron curtain fell, my dad took it back as a sort of souvenir of his youth.
Now it rested in my dad's basement in Cologne - until last Saturday.
I had the idea to overhaul the turntable for my dad's 80th bithday so he can play some of his own (roughly 60 years) old records.
A few years ago I overhauled an old tube radio (
Schaub Junior) for a friend of mine, who found it while cleaning up his attic - manufactured in roughly the same period as my Dad was born in.
Last night my friend borrowed me the old receiver and I brought the two together.
Wow - THAT was a sound, when I played 60 years old records on a 60 years old turntable using an 75 years old receiver and loudspeaker!
(the volume control currently doesn't work - it plays with max. volume!)
:hammer: :cheers:
