first stereo!

[dave1490]

My first stereo if you can call it a stereo.
I took a peice of plywood build a box mounted an old pioneer car stereo with casette tape and about 15 watts x4. Placed two 6x9 sparkomatic 60 watt speakers to the front, 6inch round 40 watt speakers on either side of stereo inside the box mounted a 40w amp and ran it all by using a ac/dc adapter from my remote control race track. Was about 10 years old and salvaged all the parts from junk my brother had pulled out of an old car he had bought. Not recommended for sound and problely not the safest but it did fine for me for a while.

ah the 6x9 sparkomatic days,dont you miss those. must have been a high current adapter.my battery charger had a meter that always moved with the bass sometime up to 15amps.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

My first system was circa 80-82 from when I was in Jr. High. The receiver was a 45wpc JcPenny Brand MCS receiver that looked something like this. This isnt mine, but it looks as close as I can remember to the one I had. I think I gave it away at some point of time, or it may still be sitting in my parents attic collecting dust.

My tape deck was a Pioneer CT-3. This was cheapest model I could find.
LOL

My first speaker was a full size refrigerator box converted into a single massive loudspeaker. My dad had spare speaker components laying around, and we used them to convert the big cardboard box into a loudspeaker. hahahahahaha

I used that box for, at least, two years.

 

[highfihoney]

My first system was circa 80-82 from when I was in Jr. High. The receiver was a 45wpc JcPenny Brand MCS receiver that looked something like this. This isnt mine, but it looks as close as I can remember to the one I had. I think I gave it away at some point of time, or it may still be sitting in my parents attic collecting dust.

My tape deck was a Pioneer CT-3. This was cheapest model I could find.
LOL

My first speaker was a full size refrigerator box converted into a single massive loudspeaker. My dad had spare speaker components laying around, and we used them to convert the big cardboard box into a loudspeaker. hahahahahaha

I used that box for, at least, two years.

MCS made some pretty nice gear,i have an mcs intergrated amp that we use from time to time & an mcs analog tuner that sounds great & pulls in the stations as good as really expensive tuners.

The fridge box deal sounds like a mess though,i'd love to see a pic of that baby

 

[dave1490]

MCS made some pretty nice gear,i have an mcs intergrated amp that we use from time to time & an mcs analog tuner that sounds great & pulls in the stations as good as really expensive tuners.

The fridge box deal sounds like a mess though,i'd love to see a pic of that baby

hey i bet that,s over 10 cubic feet,must be deep bass,just reinforce it.sounds like project to me

 

[Rowdy S13]

My first system is in my sig BUT thats thanks to my dad having a nice stereo that I could use untill I stated buying. His Is a 70 vintage Sansui seprate system, pushing some Vega's. Ill get more info and pics later.

Sean

 

[aeronautica86]

I think my first stereo system was a Koss am/fm/cd/cassette thing that my parents bought when I was like 8 - my older brother and I shared a room at the time and it went in there.

The first system that I bought once I got out of the house consists of a sony ta-e9000es preamp, rotel rb-980bx, denon 2910, and onix rocket 750 sigs. I got this setup about 1.5 yrs ago (I'm a junior in college).

I'll upgrading to an Emotiva lpa-1 amp here within a month or so, and at the end of the semester when I move into my own place where I'll be living by myself for the next two years, I'll be getting the other 3.1 channels to make a 5.1 HT system, nice Mitsu dlp tv, hddvd/bluray player, and sb3 (maybe transporter if I can swing the $$$).

 

[hogfan]

First one I bought

It was a Julliette in 1974 ? Had an 8-track, amfm, & aux selector. I threw papers to purchase it. When I bought a turntable I had to buy a preamp from radio shack because of this new magnetic cartridge thing on it. Then bought a Sansui G3000 receiver in 1978, still working in the garage . The Sansui was pushing Realistic Optimus-5 accoustic suspension speakers, dead & gone. The only receiver that has died on me was a pioneer vsx-4500s.

 

[Tomorrow]

In 1971 I purchased a new Onkyo integrated amp 30 watts a channel and the matching tuner, "The Advent" speakers (their first and only speaker at the time), 30 feet of lamp cord, Sony reel to reel tape recorder of indeterminate vintage. Can't remember what I had for a turntable.

I'd love to hear those Advents today and compare them to current speakers. Anybody own a pair?

Nick

Hey Nick. I hope you're still around. I noticed you haven't posted in weeks.

I realize this is an old thread, but I came into possession of a pair of Advent 1's this week and have been doing some research. I'm driving them right now with an old Onkyo 105 wpc stereo receiver. Very nice.

Hey, I'm thinking about doing a little shootout with my vintage JBL's from the same era, and maybe some Infinities, too. Anyone interested in pics or a small review?

LOL, I'll use lampcord if you want.

 

[Adam]

My first system was circa 80-82 from when I was in Jr. High. The receiver was a 45wpc JcPenny Brand MCS receiver that looked something like this.

Holy cow! My brother had the same receiver, then gave it to me, and my friend is still using it. Brings back memories.

(Thanks to Tomorrow for bringing this thread back, as I had never seen it.)

 

[Adam]

Anyone interested in pics or a small review?

Hey, Tomorrow. I'm always interested in pics and reviews!

 

[Tomorrow]

Hey, Tomorrow. I'm always interested in pics and reviews!

....maybe next weekend....

 

[dem beats]

my first was an aiwa which was black, sounded good when low and I listened verry verry close.... less than 2 feet away at the head of my bed 99% of the time.

I sold it for 100 bucks to upgrade into a 5.1 aiwa, which sounded awesome, and got actual itty bitty moments of bass, whis was cool.

The surrounds never worked right but it was fun, It then slowly fell apart and for a verry long time was used to hold my projector off the ground when I had a set up where I took it down and put it up whenever I wanted to watch movies, after I moved in with my lady.

come a loooong way.

 

[stato]

I had a radio/tapedeck mono speaker with stereo output on it???? can't remember the brand. My best mates dad was throwing out some old bookshelf speakers with one blown. Took the boxes home and took out speakers from the boxes and me and my mate went to the local dump. We spent the day dodging a compactor chasing us and I got two tweeters out of two televisions and two bass speakers out of another old stereo we found. Happy as larry I went home cut extra holes for my new top end tweeters and shoe horned the others in. Wasn't very loud but I now had stereo in my bedroom before they even broadcast radio in stereo. I was pumped...............Long time ago now.