Album Covers with Audio Equipment

[Berwhale]

Post album covers that contain images of audio equipment (musical instruments and speaker stacks from live albums excluded). Bonus points for naming the equipment...

 

[Soniclife]

When I saw the thread title I was already thinking of that Morcheeba album.

Unsurprisingly Stereolab have some.

 

[anmpr1]

Looks like some sort of Transcriptors/Michell turntable (Fluid Arm?) and a Rotel receiver?

 

[Berwhale]

 

[Berwhale]

 

[RickSanchez]

Who can forget this classic ... (I most definitely cannot name the equipment pictured.)

 

[RickSanchez]

Or this one ...

 

[RickSanchez]

Pushing the boundary on this one, but thought I'd offer it up anyway. It's clearly a speaker FR from Amir's Klippel Near-field Scanner. (Artic Monkeys, "AM".)

 

[Count Arthur]

That's 10 minutes of my life I'm never going to get back.

 

[fredoamigo]

 

[anmpr1]

Who can forget this classic ... (I most definitely cannot name the equipment pictured.)

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It's a Joe Grado tonearm I'm pretty sure.

 

[mhardy6647]

A couple-three that spring to mind.

I hadn't noticed before, but the receiver to Lucinda's left in the photo above looks like it might be a Sansui 5000 (or 5000x or 5000A).

Sansui 5000A front by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

Note that dandy RCA LC-1A coax by Arthur Fiedler's head Wonderful loudspeaker, the LC-1A

 

[mhardy6647]

It's a Joe Grado tonearm I'm pretty sure.

I concur. Sure looks like a Grado wooden arm.

source: http://www.alliedcatalogs.com/html/1962-210/h087.html

The component on the right is givin' me an Altec vibe -- but that's a SWAG at best.

(this is just an example, obviously not das Ding an sich).

If the mystery component on the album cover didn't have so many knobs, I might think it was a Heathkit (Collins OEM?) linear (RF) amplifier!

source: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Catalogs/Allied-Catalogs/Heathkit-1971.pdf

Oh, one other random observation. Thanks to www.radioshackcatalogs.com I learned that Lester Lanin was shillin' Radio Shack hifi products before they tapped Arthur Fiedler to do it!

Not sure how legible it is, but the image and signature on that Radio Shack "Supertape" packaging is none other than Lester Lanin.
source: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1973/h112.html

 

[SimpleTheater]

Some think the turntable is a RCA from the 1950's. I have no idea.

 

[Berwhale]

 

[mhardy6647]

Some think the turntable is a RCA from the 1950's. I have no idea.
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Well, the arm is a Gray. I never really looked at the tt.

 

[RickSanchez]

The Jack Emblow Sextet: "Housewives' Playtime" (1963)

 

[RickSanchez]

Finally found one from my own collection.

 

[Berwhale]

Damn,

Finally found one from my own collection.

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Good spot, I missed that one in my collection.

 

[Soniclife]