[V8] Old music or good music...

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

I would be happy to relieve you of that creaky old McIntosh and Triads!!

but really, they are likely to be worth a small fortune. Especially the
amp.  If it works, I think these things go for thousands.  Even
non-functional but complete it is likely to be worth many hundreds.  There
is a real boom for the retro gear now and McIntosh made the best of the
best.  I know Japanese collectors used to pay downright insane amounts for
real USA made audio gear and muscle cars.
I was talking to a used audio store owner in Boulder CO a long time ago
who said his Japanese customers would demand he remove the covers and
certify that no japanese (or any other asian) parts were inside before
they would buy.

Dave


> You mentioned McIntosh and that reminds me that I have a very nice (or it
> was) McIntosh receiver sitting in my garage.  We used it continuously up
> until we moved but since we have been here, I have not set up any music at
> all.  My wife listens to the computer in the kitchen and that’s it.
>
> My Mac needs to be overhauled now, but I have seriously thought of putting
> it up on eBay and seeing what it will bring.
>
> Then there is the Triad speaker system that was so good  but now might be
> obsolete, too.
>
> As far as listening to good music is concerned it may well be the old
> systems are better, but I really doubt that most people listen that
> closely. The new surround sound systems don’t seem to be really
> representative of music, certainly not classical music as I have only sat
> in the middle of an orchestra when I was playing in it, and the music
> heard that way was lousy.
>
> I think the newly rebuilt Bose system in my V8 was merely fair.  Before I
> got the car all the amps were rebuilt (so said the seller), and I used an
> adapter and Walkman for CDs. Worked very well, actually, but the inside of
> a car isn’t exactly symphony hall.
>
> Now my Bose system is completely inert.  The death of music in my V8
> started with the antenna not really wanting to work properly.  It was an
> on/off kind of thing. Sometimes the antenna would go up and sometimes it
> wouldn’t.  Sometimes the radio would light up and sometimes it
> wouldn’t.  Now it just doesn't.  So I listen to the engine, but since
> the car is having this restoration done to it, maybe this is a good time
> to change everything out and put something decent in.
>
> Now, if I could just find a CD player for the car that didn’t look like
> a juke box from a cheap New Orleans whore house.....
>
> Roger
>
> Oh, yeah, and better still:  find someone who could work on getting it
> installed without tearing up the insides of the car.  THAT will be the
> most difficult part of the whole process.
>
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