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99.95? Yes please, I'll have ten
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in 1974, I found a used Leak stereo 50, and a Scott tube receiver I think a 340? The receiver had separate AM-FM for simulcast and I got the multiplex decoder with it all for $50 for both! Still have the Leak!
just before getting out of the Navy to return home and finish school, I ordered my first stereo system from an East coast discount house. That included Dynakits (ST-70, PAS -3, FM-3), a pair of AR-4s in oiled walnut, and a Dual 1009 with base, dustcover, and Empire cartridge.
Wish I had record of the exact price but it was about $350, including shipping to my parent's home.
I loved that system and what a way to begin my audio hobby!
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
What was your rate? I was an AT, but I would have been an AX before the rate change....
Illustrator Draftsman 3rd Class. I had a three year enlistment so not qualified for A school. I had to study and advance on my own. Most of my active duty was at Fleet Intelligence in Hawaii.Obviously that was nothing to do with electronics. But building the Dynakits allowed me to become very good at measuring and stripping a green wire 6" long! ;^)
BTW, all three kits worked upon completion. Then a couple of years later I was working just outside Philadelphia so took all three components to the factory for check up. They touched up a few solder joints, realigned the FM-3, and sent me happily on my way.
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
Edits: 04/28/15
Truly classic system! I gotta ask if you still have any of it?
That system served me finishing school and my first job after graduation. Then due to a job move across country I sold the whole system to friends who wanted it. A year later they followed me to So. Cal. so I continued servicing it for them for several more years - checking tubes, setting bias, changing cartridge, etc.
Since then I have owned a couple more ST-70s and another PAS-3. I did a mod on the PAS at Audio Directions, the old hi-end store in San Diego. That was a mixed result - tightened up some detail and bass but diminished some of the sense of spaciousness.
Interesting that after beginning with the ST-70 I later owned a Marantz 8B and then a RM-9. Very recently I came back to the EL-34/6CA7 with a wonderful pair of Manley Snappers. They retain some of that mid-range magic I remember while being more extended at both frequency ends, more dynamic, and faster (apparent) rise time.
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
Thanks for sharing.
or maybe 1974, I remember seeing a big stack of the ST70 kits on closeout near the door of the big audio dealer in Atlanta. I can still see the little tent card on top of the stack, $99. I was sorely tempted, but was also between jobs! My intention was to also get the Audio Research mod kit and do it up right. A time machine would be nice...
When I was in high school I went with my father to a audio closeout store and they had a stack of new in the box, Empire 698 turntables ... for $100 each! At the time I had no idea what a good deal that was.
Dave
I paid $400 for mine new in 1975 including an Empire cartridge.
I thought I had scored. What a wonderful table it was.
I gave it to my son and he did a wonderful job restoring it. He still can't find the cueing mechanism and head shell. It is still in my garage and is still beautiful.
I think it was definitely worth $400. I drooled over it, but I was a penniless high school student. I eventually got a Sansui turntable with an ADC cartage, that was on closeout at Audio Associates in Wheaton Plaza. It served me well for years, then I sold it for $100.
You should be able to get the headshell and cuing mechanism. You could also get a modern cuing mechanism, but I think the headshell is proprietary. You could get the headshell and hand-cue. I had cue a lot because the cuing mechanism on my Grace 707 is not that great.
Dave
$99.95 was probably a mortgage payment.
Yup, mom and dad paid about $130 a month for their mortgage. I take my wife and I to a halfway decent dinner and it cost as much as the Dynaco 70 assembled.I can just about but a new set of tubes for $99. Welcome to the 21st century eh...... :)
about $793 according to the inflation calculator I used. Bob Latino's ST-70 kit today is $719 plus tubes.
Funny how some things don't change much over time. :)
That is about what the reproduction kits cost now.
Dave
For that price I'll buy the assembled version.
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