Album Covers with Audio Equipment

[Shorty]

 

[Shorty]

 

[Hamish (the dog)]

I believe it is a Panasonic product. No tubes here, solid state ftw

 

[Berwhale]

Speaking of "The Floyd"
(and virtually on topic...)

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Nice shot of Biggin Hill airport. Dave Gilmore is on lockdown at his farm which is about 1/2 of a mile from my house. He's been posting videos from there for a few weeks: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=von+trapped+david+gilmour

 

[Count Arthur]

I believe it is a Panasonic product. No tubes here, solid state ftw
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That's a microwave oven, surely?

 

[mhardy6647]

It is a radio -- in fact, it is a stereo radio that had a matching 'satellite' speaker.
I actually had one, briefly, a long time ago -- a find from the "Yankee Swap" pile at the much beloved Harvard, MA town dump transfer station.
Do you all know about the traditions and cultural importance of small-town New England "dumps"?

swappile1 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

I do miss the dump (since we moved to NH six years ago). My understanding is that the Harvard swap pile is no more, though Our little town here doesn't have one -- although our daughter's & son-in-law's town (Grantham) does. Swap pile and all (well, not this year, due to the, you know, virus thing).
I grieve for it.

Much of my hifi has come from the dump -- yes, even some of the good stuff.


but I digress...

 

[Hamish (the dog)]

It is a radio -- in fact, it is a stereo radio that had a matching 'satellite' speaker.
I actually had one, briefly, a long time ago -- a find from the "Yankee Swap" pile at the much beloved Harvard, MA town dump transfer station.
Do you all know about the traditions and cultural importance of small-town New England "dumps"?

swappile1 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

I do miss the dump (since we moved to NH six years ago). My understanding is that the Harvard swap pile is no more, though Our little town here doesn't have one -- although our daughter's & son-in-law's town (Grantham) does. Swap pile and all (well, not this year, due to the, you know, virus thing).
I grieve for it.

Much of my hifi has come from the dump -- yes, even some of the good stuff.


but I digress...

Though I’ve never lived in a town with a “dump” like that, it does remind me of an activity that was popular during my youth.

When I first moved to Lawrence, KS for college, back in the late 90’s, I knew a lot of people who would hit up the dumpsters outside of fraternities at the end of the school year to hunt for all the loot left behind by college kids that couldn’t be bothered to move stuff back home.

That was before the days of smartphones, Bluetooth, sound bars and prior to the general decline of standard hifi equipment being common in people’s homes, so you could find some real treasures that had been abandoned. Receivers and speakers were pretty common. Once, a buddy of mine wound up with a pair of Martin Logans from one trip to the dumpsters. Of course it probably helped that Lawrence is the hq of Martin Logan, so they seem to be slightly more common.

I never did the dumpster hunt myself. I imagine the prevalence of hifi equipment is greatly reduced nowadays.

 

[Hipper]

 

[fløyen]

 

[anmpr1]

Some think the turntable is a RCA from the 1950's. I have no idea.
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This may have already been identified, but the tonearm was from a company called Radio Music Corp out of East Port Chester Conneticut. Made in the late 1940s--early '50s.

 

[Freeway]

 

[pavuol]

 

[waxkinglyrical]

Hello,

First post, thought I’d jump in here and make a splash…or a ripple.

It’s an analogue life.

 

[Berwhale]

Maybe a Sharp or Aiwa portable cassette deck? (it looks a little before my time, I had a more recent Sanyo Slim 3a as a child)

 

[Berwhale]

Hello,

First post, thought I’d jump in here and make a splash…or a ripple.

It’s an analogue life.

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Holy thread resurrection Batman! Welcome to ASR!

 

[JayGilb]

Since this thread has just been resurrected, here's a very classic album cover with audio equipment, that will probably considered controversial by today's standards.

 

[carlosmante]

Hello,

First post, thought I’d jump in here and make a splash…or a ripple.

It’s an analogue life.

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The cover says "Full Circle" but is showing an Hemicycle.

 

[waxkinglyrical]

The cover says "Full Circle" but is showing an Hemicycle.

My education begins here…let’s allow for artistic license.

 

[Berwhale]

https://www.vinylengine.com/library/mitsubishi/lt-5v.shtml

Looks like an Akai 4000D, but I note that the play/record and rwd/f-fwd nobs are not original.