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In Reply to: Your first Stereo posted by Cameraman on August 22, 2015 at 16:42:08:
In the early-80s, as an elementary school kid, I received personal stereos from relatives. Thus, I did the majority of my music listening via headphones. I also had a plastic Emerson record player, which scratched and raked the hell out of my vinyl collection.Indeed, my generation grew up on Walkman-type portables.
The top photo was from the Spring '87 semester, while I was a high school sophomore. My friends/classmates said I had Slayer's Reign In Blood in that Sony WM-F107 Sports Walkman. No. Since I was with CT (the girl with the blue collar), I can tell you that I did not have thrash metal in my Walkman. I most likely had Steve Winwood's Back In The High Life . That cassette had a clear plastic outer shell. As my old friend Larry said, "How can we be back in high life, when we were never in it, in the first place?"
As I've written repeatedly, there were only two types of girls who went for me. #1, the sports hacks, 'cuz they liked kicking my butt in athletics. #2, the 4.0+ GPA super nerds, who kicked my butt intellectually and academically. CT was part of this #2 group. She thought my being dumb and wacky (and audio was a part of that) was cute. Since I was not remotely in competition for grades with these super nerd girls, they did not view me as a threat. They especially liked tutoring/helping me in the natural sciences and advanced math. For their efforts, they just got Lummy's blank stare, as my brain froze, when trying to picture and comprehend the unit circle, and trig functions/relations.
In turn, those nerd girls loved my knowledge of popular music, always wanted ME to choose what to listen to. As if regular peer pressure weren't enough, being looked upon to satisfy their musical cravings would make me extra nervous. I did not want to let them down, let the party fizzle awkwardly. Oh well, that experience is why the audiophiles turn to me for popular music suggestions, history, and background.
As for home stereo, starting in 1986, I started putting together a system, which would fit into an "entertainment center." The bottom photo is from either summer or fall '87. The audio portion consisted of:
Sony ST-7TV MTS stereo TV tuner
Sony STR-AV780 receiver
Sony CDP-520ESII CD player
some Sony APM loudspeakersOkay, okay, I did use Monster IL-400 interconnects, and Original Monster speaker cable. Yes, that is a Nintendo NES on top of the left speaker. After turning off the NES, we probably listened to the Breakfast Club (Madonna's old band) and the Cutting Crew.
Too bad we did not have a device such as the audiodharma Cable Cooker back then! Such a product would have fired up my friends/classmates. Since we had identical 1-meter pairs of the IL-400, we could have done that experiment, where we Cook one pair, and compare it to an untreated pair.
The Audiophiles' DJ,
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Follow Ups
- 1987 - All Sony - Luminator 08/22/1518:06:27 08/22/15 (4)
- Dumb guy or not, you've got your arm around her - Otis1 02:27:56 08/23/15 (3)
- Music Was The Common Bond - Luminator 07:44:06 08/23/15 (2)
- -Excellent- writeup, that was highly entertaining... - Otis1 21:30:37 08/23/15 (1)
- RE: -Excellent- writeup, that was highly entertaining...agreed [n.t.a.] - wangmr 12:59:25 08/24/15 (0)
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