Posted on 07/01/2019 6:05:21 AM PDT by C19fan
“I used to enjoy listening after dark, when you could receive stations from distant locations.”
What a memory. I did the same thing with my stereo back in the early 80’s. I’d stay up late and night and move the tuner knob ever so slightly and listen in.
If I could get the call signals for the station and wasn’t aware of the city, I’d listen a bit longer and write both of them down. Or I’d write down the number on the tuner and listen again at a later date and see if I could figure out where it was broadcasting from.
Way back then, I’d pick up stations going as far west as Denver, about as far south as KC/St Louis going east to Louisville and Cincy and as far east as Pittsburgh.
I wonder what it’d be like trying to do the same thing today...?
Some were truckers stations. Other were the big music stalwarts like WHB (Kansas City) and WLS (Chicago).
Same here. Some nights, I would just slowly scan the AM and FM bands to listen for something out of the ordinary. Sometimes, I would get a channel broadcasting in Morse. I would also do the same thing with TV late at night on the weekends.
“...The problem is that once you’ve heard how good music can sound, you don’t want to go back.”
I’ve had unbelievably great speakers throughout my life, I know how good music sounds.
Big Klipsch speakers with mediocre electronics — sold them to a band and then ordered a custom pair of La Scala’s paired with a superb Carver amp (sounded much better than McIntosh — still have it).
I have a friend who has a $300,000 pair of speakers with a 400 pound set of crossovers (came with the speakers) — I believe I understand GOOD sound.
For the time the TPS-L2 was ASTOUNDING! The first TPS-L2 I ever heard was from a friend who had a sister who was a model (several BIG covers on national magazines) and brought a unit back from Japan.
I literally purchased the first TPS-L2 in the PNW.
It was that good.
Thanks for your reply...I DO appreciate it.
I still miss my walkman. I bought a cheap trac phone and memory and have made it into an sort of Walkman. They were so good. I had it on my arm as I did chores around the house.
The eighties and nineties were good years.
gosh remember service merchandise?
Had a friend who was store manager at age 19 or 20.
Walking around with the clipboards.
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