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No sex please, we're British.
About as simple as it gets.
You Brits and your humor. Lol.
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Well, that model guy... umm... Fabio... had a rather famous stereo system.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Fabio's $500,000+ Stereo System
Was watching an interview with tonemeister Dweezil Zappa and he mentioned Fabio (yes, that Fabio) having the most amazing stereo system he'd ever seen, worth over a half million, etc. So I decided to Google it for fun. I have to admit, this won me over. Tom Green shows it in a house tour below...
www.3daudioinc.com
Fabio's System - 1995
Who is Fabio? Well, look him up. He's recently done some fun Old Spice commercials. But, he's also an audio enthusiast, like us, but with more money than (most of) us. Here's a reprint from Audio Video Interiors, November 1995, which, miraculously, was not chewed up by the Florida Palmetto...
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And... I mean... in another time's forgotten space... Rod the Mod did have the Rodspeaker(s).
and he had a hit called Do Ya Think I'm Sexy... so, if we apply a little syllogism...
Personally, though... this is more my style...
Ha ha, you villain,Well, that model guy... umm... Fabio... had a rather famous stereo system.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Fabio's $500,000+ Stereo System
Was watching an interview with tonemeister Dweezil Zappa and he mentioned Fabio (yes, that Fabio) having the most amazing stereo system he'd ever seen, worth over a half million, etc. So I decided to Google it for fun. I have to admit, this won me over. Tom Green shows it in a house tour below...www.3daudioinc.comFabio's System - 1995
Who is Fabio? Well, look him up. He's recently done some fun Old Spice commercials. But, he's also an audio enthusiast, like us, but with more money than (most of) us. Here's a reprint from Audio Video Interiors, November 1995, which, miraculously, was not chewed up by the Florida Palmetto...
And... I mean... in another time's forgotten space... Rod the Mod did have the Rodspeaker(s).
and he had a hit called Do Ya Think I'm Sexy... so, if we apply a little syllogism...
Personally, though... this is more my style...
... you cut off where I wrote:Unfair to the women who read this thread. They have no eye candy.Thought to post some picture so I googled,"sexy men and hifi", but I could not find anything. Found this but even I who do not lie in that direction and turn on to men realize that this may not be what women, in general, consider to be so sexy.
However, surely those gentlemen at that event hade a good time.
A photo I found. Unfortunately lost the link. Some flea market, vintage, hifi fair something, somewhere.
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Although the women probably thought that Frank Sinatra was a sexy guy:
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Sinatra did have a bitchen hifi, too.
Yes, the Seinfeldian reference was, of course, most deliberate. I felt a little weird googling "famous long haired male model 1990s hifi system" -- and I felt even a little weirder clicking on some of the results. But I did find Fabio (I'd forgotten his name). The things I do for science and scholarship.
I'd rather listen to the Rodspeakers, though.
Oh, and -- I'd have felt even weirder if Mrs. H had peered over my shoulder while I was perusing a google image search of buff, hirsute male models.
Google will never be thinkin' of me the same way again, algorithmically speaking, I reckon.
Yes, the Seinfeldian reference was, of course, most deliberate. I felt a little weird googling "famous long haired male model 1990s hifi system" -- and I felt even a little weirder clicking on some of the results. But I did find Fabio (I'd forgotten his name). The things I do for science and scholarship.
I'd rather listen to the Rodspeakers, though.
Oh, and -- I'd have felt even weirder if Mrs. H had peered over my shoulder while I was perusing a google image search of buff, hirsute male models.
Google will never be thinkin' of me the same way again, algorithmically speaking, I reckon.
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Yup, and apparently Sinatra was into Buddhist statues. Who knew...Sinatra did have a bitchen hifi, too.
Yes, the Seinfeldian reference was, of course, most deliberate. I felt a little weird googling "famous long haired male model 1990s hifi system" -- and I felt even a little weirder clicking on some of the results. But I did find Fabio (I'd forgotten his name). The things I do for science and scholarship.
I'd rather listen to the Rodspeakers, though.
Oh, and -- I'd have felt even weirder if Mrs. H had peered over my shoulder while I was perusing a google image search of buff, hirsute male models.
Google will never be thinkin' of me the same way again, algorithmically speaking, I reckon.
LolSinatra did have a bitchen hifi, too.
Yes, the Seinfeldian reference was, of course, most deliberate. I felt a little weird googling "famous long haired male model 1990s hifi system" -- and I felt even a little weirder clicking on some of the results. But I did find Fabio (I'd forgotten his name). The things I do for science and scholarship.
I'd rather listen to the Rodspeakers, though.
Oh, and -- I'd have felt even weirder if Mrs. H had peered over my shoulder while I was perusing a google image search of buff, hirsute male models.
Google will never be thinkin' of me the same way again, algorithmically speaking, I reckon.
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you may well be right!
Ha! I found the missing Hifi guys! (see #39). Plus appropriate advertising for this thread, in the same link.What a coincidence.
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Vintage hi-fi: what's hot?
Tim Jarman tracks the trends in the current vintage hi-fi market... Vintage hi-fi, like many collecting and preservation hobbies, is subject to the '30-year rule'. This states that today's top collectables are those products that were new about 30 years ago. The reasoning is that when you are...
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Well, that model guy... umm... Fabio... had a rather famous stereo system.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Fabio's $500,000+ Stereo System
Was watching an interview with tonemeister Dweezil Zappa and he mentioned Fabio (yes, that Fabio) having the most amazing stereo system he'd ever seen, worth over a half million, etc. So I decided to Google it for fun. I have to admit, this won me over. Tom Green shows it in a house tour below...www.3daudioinc.comFabio's System - 1995
Who is Fabio? Well, look him up. He's recently done some fun Old Spice commercials. But, he's also an audio enthusiast, like us, but with more money than (most of) us. Here's a reprint from Audio Video Interiors, November 1995, which, miraculously, was not chewed up by the Florida Palmetto...
And... I mean... in another time's forgotten space... Rod the Mod did have the Rodspeaker(s).
and he had a hit called Do Ya Think I'm Sexy... so, if we apply a little syllogism...
Personally, though... this is more my style...
I agree with your style. That Dieter Ram, Braun system was at that time, really my dream
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But... but... that's not Dieter Rams!I agree with your style. That Dieter Ram, Braun system was at that time, really my dream
He's still around, BTW -- at least according to google. Dieter that is.
We lost Dame Diana not so long ago (2020), as you probably know.
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hifi guys...
etf21_028 by Holger Barske, on Flickr
etf21_050 by Holger Barske, on Flickr
Holger Barske is the... umm... Bob Guccione of European hifi vacuum tube audio pR0n!
(and I do mean that as a compliment)
umm... guess I better get back on topic.
Let's see... what've I got handy?
... and, just to stay in keeping with one of this thread's leitmotifs, how 'bout this from the 1978 "Tech HiFi" catalog?
She has such large... umm... such large... bell-bottoms.
etf21_028 by Holger Barske, on Flickretf21_050 by Holger Barske, on FlickrHolger Barske is the... umm... Bob Guccione of European hifi vacuum tube audio pR0n!
(and I do mean that as a compliment)
umm... guess I better get back on topic.
Let's see... what've I got handy?
... and, just to stay in keeping with one of this thread's leitmotifs, how 'bout this from the 1978 "Tech HiFi" catalog?
She has such large... umm... such large... bell-bottoms.
Hm, I think I can see a pattern .... could it be because it's a weekend?
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Damn what I get the urge to go to some fun Hifi fair when I look at those pictures.
The distaff side
I hope that it isn't impolite to ask if any members reflect my position of not having met any females who were interested in HiFi? Music, certainly, but not the artificial way to listen to it best.
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Damn what I get the urge to go to some fun Hifi fair when I look at those pictures.
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... and hang out with some middle-aged-to-old, paunchy, balding, mostly bespectacled, mostly white guys with questionable personal hygiene practices and a stunted sense of fashion?Hm, I think I can see a pattern .... could it be because it's a weekend?
The distaff side
I hope that it isn't impolite to ask if any members reflect my position of not having met any females who were interested in HiFi? Music, certainly, but not the artificial way to listen to it best.
Damn what I get the urge to go to some fun Hifi fair when I look at those pictures.
I really, truly do enjoy, appreciate, and admire Holger Barske's photography (not just of hifi esoterica, either) -- but his ETF* and other hifi shindig photo sets all seem to look so cold, my fingertips get numb just looking at 'em!
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I feel compelled to expand on the note in that ad, noting that there's a whole book(let)...
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I think this actually is the girl from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking - finally got home and chilling after a long eventful trip...
It is as it is, old farts. I'm starting to be one myself. You can make an exception then. Before you go to the fair, you can wash yourself, because Not that there's anything wrong with that!... and hang out with some middle-aged-to-old, paunchy, balding, mostly bespectacled, mostly white guys with questionable personal hygiene practices and a stunted sense of fashion?
I really, truly do enjoy, appreciate, and admire Holger Barske's photography (not just of hifi esoterica, either) -- but his ETF* and other hifi shindig photo sets all seem to look so cold, my fingertips get numb just looking at 'em!
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Gramophone Dreams #34: The Salt Cellar System | Stereophile.com
The image above is not a modernist oil painting. It's an airport x-ray of my friend Jeffrey Jackson's backpack. Can you identify its contents? Did you notice the red rectangle alerting the inspector of a suspicious object? Do you know what that suspicious object is? Or what it is worth? That...www.stereophile.com
Nowadays a lot of data and pitctures (moving ditto, home cinema) mixed with Sound/ Hifi, so then you need:
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From Autocar magazine, December 5, 1965. Makes me wonder if this really was the "first of its kind in the world." Also, think this must be an English magazine (assuming "38 gns" means 38 guineas, as well the London address). And what the heck? Music on a cassette can't be erased? They must have meant just on this unit...
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