This thread will probably give away the age of each poster... 
So, let's not get coy...
Back in 1968 (I was 22 before you start trying to figure it out and get it wrong), I'd had a couple of lowish-fi stereo systems (bits of Philips kit) when a Pom was recruited by the company I was working for to open a magnetic tape factory in the Cape Flats. Jeff (I can't remember his surname) had worked for EMI in the UK and was clued-up on the then current UK hifi market and offerings.
He and I got into a conversation one day around the optimum system for a given budget and the following system was put together:
Thorens TD160C with TP16 arm and a Shure M75ED Type 2 MM cartridge
Teac A350 Dolby B cassette deck (the second Dobly deck to be released after one from Wharfedale)
B&O Beloab 5000 integrated amp (~40wpc into 8ohms and with the slide-rule cursor pots on the front panel)
A pair of Kef Cadenza speakers (T27 tweeter, B200 mid-bass driver and a BD300 oval passive radiator)
So, when funds had been accumulated, went out and got the goodies).
All cables were either captive mains leads or twin multi-strand lamp flex.
The Kefs were mounted on custom-built stands to lift them to a more appropriate height than just on the floor.
Pic (not mine - taken from the web):
The Beolab 5000 was bought from a colleague who had three and only needed two...:
Pic (also not mine)
The Teac cassette deck:
Pic (also not mine)
Thorens TD160C:
Pic (also not mine)
This system lasted me a long time (I got married the following year...) but eventually small rumblings were heard...
The first to go was the A350 (in the mid 1970s when a colleague made me an offer I couldn't understand) - replaced by another Teac (A303) - a front-loader as the A350 was a PITA.
The B&O and Kefs went as a gift to another colleague in the early 1990s
The TD160C was replaced by the current LP12 in the mid-1990s and the TD160C donated to a student who worked at a Randburg record store and had provided a "hide for Dave" service. The A303 went about the same time to another colleague whose cassette deck up and died at a party.
The bulk of the original system stayed in regular use from 1968 to around 1992/93 when all was replaced by Audiolab 8000A, LP12, Tannoy 613s, Rotel RCD965BX CDP and a Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1.5.
During those 23-24 years, that rig did sterling service... Great memories...
Dave
So, let's not get coy...
Back in 1968 (I was 22 before you start trying to figure it out and get it wrong), I'd had a couple of lowish-fi stereo systems (bits of Philips kit) when a Pom was recruited by the company I was working for to open a magnetic tape factory in the Cape Flats. Jeff (I can't remember his surname) had worked for EMI in the UK and was clued-up on the then current UK hifi market and offerings.
He and I got into a conversation one day around the optimum system for a given budget and the following system was put together:
Thorens TD160C with TP16 arm and a Shure M75ED Type 2 MM cartridge
Teac A350 Dolby B cassette deck (the second Dobly deck to be released after one from Wharfedale)
B&O Beloab 5000 integrated amp (~40wpc into 8ohms and with the slide-rule cursor pots on the front panel)
A pair of Kef Cadenza speakers (T27 tweeter, B200 mid-bass driver and a BD300 oval passive radiator)
So, when funds had been accumulated, went out and got the goodies).
All cables were either captive mains leads or twin multi-strand lamp flex.
The Kefs were mounted on custom-built stands to lift them to a more appropriate height than just on the floor.
Pic (not mine - taken from the web):
The Beolab 5000 was bought from a colleague who had three and only needed two...:
Pic (also not mine)
The Teac cassette deck:
Pic (also not mine)
Thorens TD160C:
Pic (also not mine)
This system lasted me a long time (I got married the following year...) but eventually small rumblings were heard...
The first to go was the A350 (in the mid 1970s when a colleague made me an offer I couldn't understand) - replaced by another Teac (A303) - a front-loader as the A350 was a PITA.
The B&O and Kefs went as a gift to another colleague in the early 1990s
The TD160C was replaced by the current LP12 in the mid-1990s and the TD160C donated to a student who worked at a Randburg record store and had provided a "hide for Dave" service. The A303 went about the same time to another colleague whose cassette deck up and died at a party.
The bulk of the original system stayed in regular use from 1968 to around 1992/93 when all was replaced by Audiolab 8000A, LP12, Tannoy 613s, Rotel RCD965BX CDP and a Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1.5.
During those 23-24 years, that rig did sterling service... Great memories...
Dave
