[V8] Old music or good music...

[Ingo Rautenberg]

I still have the almost pristine Mac 1700 receiver my dad bought when new
back in '69? I think it was an absurd amount of money for the time -- like
$500 (approx $3000 today). Solid state Amp and preamp with tubes for the FM
only tuner.

Love that MAC 1700. Of course, I love (almost) all my old audiophile stuff
(that old Fischer 500-C is a BEAST).

Ingo

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, <dsaad at icehouse.net> wrote:

> 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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