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supremesoundz 
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 Posted: 01 June 2018 at 10:28am |
brilliant  Love these threads, most of us didn’t have a lot of money but were happy!! Memories of my Binatone all in one hifi which was totally shite. The source selector knob was screwed and if you put it carefully between phono and tape you could here both sources! My 1st mixer !!
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jbl_man
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Posted: 01 June 2018 at 8:57am |
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Home made (well school woodwork lesson made) chipboard 2x12 with goodmans 12PG 60 watt chrome-dome drivers, and a separate HF cab with a pair of Goodmans Hi-fax (to date, the worst sounding things i have ever heard) and 4 maplins Peizos.
Mixer was home made affair,running off a 9v battery,and turntables were a pair of miss-matched Pioneers.....a PL12D and a PL112D. Amp was a single HH ic100 guitar amp, but did have the very cool glowing green front. How advanced was I? Pair of Pioneers with a mixer inbetween,and this was 1976!  Edited by jbl_man - 01 June 2018 at 9:15am |
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markie
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Posted: 01 June 2018 at 12:48am |
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Pair of Garrard SP25s, Discosound DJ70 integrated mixer/amp which offered..... wait for it 70 watts rms. Speakers were a pair of 2x12 cabinets bought from RSC which we loaded with Goodmans Axiom 401s which they sold at Comet for a fiver each.
The mixer amp had a pair of mic inputs, each with a volume control, but shared treble and bass, and a pair of ceramic cart inputs with the same, separate volumes, but again shared treble and bass. The deck inputs also had switchable PFL and output for cans.
We built a console to house the decks and DJ70, from chipboard and covered it with red marble pattern Formica. Transport was a 1968 grey mini van reg NUY 214E. Edited by markie - 01 June 2018 at 12:49am |
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If it's got wheels or tits it's gonna cost a fortune
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nickyburnell
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Posted: 31 May 2018 at 10:39pm |
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2 x 12" Fane Disco Specialists 80watts, one in each big cab chipboard cab built with no glue! Sound City Valve amp and a Discosound Console after I messed up the Saxon one using Bakers fluid to solder on the board. (Dad used it when soldering a pipe, what did I know)! Circa 1975, I was 15. Rapidly replaced by a pair of HH 15 and Bullet run by a Fal PA amp with, "Presence" control.... Disco was called, "Girosound" as the Post Office had just started Giro (not the dole) and we nicked the Logo, well Letraset did. Transport was by 62 mini traveler, the wood one, two or three trips, then Dads Maxi........ There were disco shops all over, even a big barn, the Disco Barn in Iver, full of used kit. Categorically better times.  Edited by nickyburnell - 01 June 2018 at 7:49am |
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It's everything, not everythink!
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RC1 Sound System
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Posted: 31 May 2018 at 9:14pm |
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Brought a few childhood memories back of valve amps, hifi amps and Maplin kit amps all working together driving whatever random mix of speakers I had managed to knock up! Happy days!
Just recalling the main difference between children and men is the size of their toys. So true, still building speakers and amps to this day, just now this hobby is starting to get really out of hand! Haha!
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Aman Gebru
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Posted: 31 May 2018 at 8:50pm |
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Maybe this thread should go into speakerplans classic threads section |
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