“Bought new cartridge. Ronette SM500/7″
Ooooooh, a bona fide EFA70’sTRO diary entry!
Not the most riveting thing though is it?
Basically I am telling my diary that I bought a new ‘needle’ for my Garrard record deck, presumably because I had a read a review of it somewhere and it promised auditory gains next time I listened to Fat [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘stereo’
11-11-09
April 18th 1974
10-19-09
January 13th 1974
“Deck went extremely wrong – fixed it+ cured Rumble & scratchy sound”
Weirdly, I do remember this…
The deck started making every record played on it sound as if it had underlying african rhythms. Which is fine if you’re David Byrne, but no good if you’re a 16-year-old teenager listening to the Edgar Broughton Band or Tonto’s [...]
10-10-09
January 3rd 1974
“Physics revision in morning – Went to Southampton in Afternoon bought Dust Bug”
Another dust bug? I thought I bought one in November 1972?
It really was a weird contraption. A length of plastic with a small brush and furry roller which you moved to sit on the record before it started spinning. The brush moved dust [...]
08-19-09
November 2nd 1973
“Bort 2 cassettes from Comet – Recorded 2Man – Work, out on bike in pitch black darkness (figures!)”
The music piracy and piss-poor grocery delivering continue unabated!
08-18-09
November 1st 1973
“Bort recording lead + Record Cleaner. Recorded 1Man”
Remember all those albums I recorded by placing the tape recorder’s microphone in front of the speaker of my parent’s portable record player?
Well, now it looks like I have to record them all again, this time using a ‘recording lead’ patched from my new amplifier straight into the [...]
08-17-09
October 29th/30th/31st 1973
• “half-term – OFF TO LONDON TO GET HI-FI (I hope)”
• “Got a crappy amp – Dad has to take it back”
• “Got a new amp – Sounds BRILLIANT!”
October 29th’s entry was written in advance.
I remember some of this story. Dad & I drove to some non-descript warehouse on an industrial estate somewhere near the Wembley [...]
08-07-09
October 5th 1973
“Decided to buy Alba HOUS208″
Alba were another of those ‘affordable’ hi-fi brands that littered the marketplace back in the Seventies.
Search as I have, I can find no online reference to – or photos of – this particular amplifier, but I indeed remember it quite well.
It was not of standard design. Not for me the ‘boring’ traditional [...]
08-06-09
October 1st 1973
“Went to Comet after school – saw the Solarvox TAM1105 – didn’t like it”
Solarvox – or more properly – Solavox appear to still be going, producing remote controls it would seem.
Back in the day, their name was synonymous with budget stereo equipment. It doesn’t appear as if their TAM1005 (amp? tuner? what?) impressed me that much however. [...]
06-29-09
August 10th 1973
“Went up Dicks, back into E.Leigh & got hair done. Sent off radio quiz. After work went got Nigs h.phones for him”
I was thinking about headphones the other day.
Whilst I now spend a proportion of each day (at the gym) wearing the earbuds from my iPod, back in the early seventies I only rarely wore headphones.
About [...]
