I had lusted after one ever since I could remember. I used to patiently wait for some neighbors to come home so that I could listen to my cassette in its full glory on their HiFi or on a good day have them play a record. Dad only had a mono boom box at that time. We were lower middle class.

Last year of college, my brother and I hit upon the idea of applying for a TV loan and then cashing the check to buy separates. The loan took its sweet ass time, it was a small credit union, and by that time the rack we were looking at was sold. I was shattered. I still miss the Teac equalizer with the green spectrum analyzer.

Then I found a beautiful Kenwood KA405 Amp, a Sansui D90 cassette deck and Pioneer CS405 speakers.

I was king !

Later I added a beautiful dark grey Akai analog tuner and a Sansui SR333 turntable. :)

And in 1991 added a small Crown CD player that would read old and scratched disks very well but brand new ones would play with a lot of terrible crackling. No one including the technician could figure out why.

  • bluecollar1020@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I bought mine out of the AAFES catalog having saved up a bunch of pay, gambling proceeds, and loan fees. This was back when the Yen was still pegged to 360 to the buck. I bought the biggest, most powerful components in the exchange. Looked at them on my way back and put them on order. They all were stolen by junkies about 18 months after my ETS while I was busting out shacks, they did leave me one record though.

    Shit happens and it’s all just consumer stuff, at least they left me some guitars and a amp, my chopper, and my dog. Still listen to my noise through a 9090 db and some 7 WA’s.