What did your system look like 30 years ago?

Ah yes the Milty Zerostat (anti static gun). It was red. Good times.

My older son (now past thirty) as a tyke turned up the volume all the way, gave us heart attacks and blew out my beloved three way Braun (810?) speakers. Amp was a Marantz, TT was a B&O, Tandberg Cassette Deck and hardware store 16G wire.  

Fun to remember. 

How many of us still has any of the gear we had 30 years ago?

I still have my zerostat, but that’s about it. I’ve owned my turntable 23 years now- so 

my oldest piece of gear is a Marantz tuner. That’s either late 60’s or early 70’s (is there a Marantz serial number database?) 

my McIntosh tuner has been identified as having been made in 1973 (Rich Modaferri told me)

both of these tuners came into my possession within the past few years 

Maxell AE-320. Working, with box, like new.

By the way, it is not that great.

30 Years Ago....


ADS L810 series 2 loudspeakers with ADS stands

Carver C1 sonic holograph preamp

Carver M1 amp

Sony 5 disc cd player

Harmon Kardon cassette player

generic wires

Rotel RCD 990 (still have it!)
Adcom GFP 565
Adcom GFA 565 MBs
Thiel CS 2 2
AQ Midnight speaker cable
Very poor system that was irritating and wildly unmusical sounding. Borderline unlistenable. Got a McCormack DNA 1 to replace and Adcom amps and liftoff. Then got Thiel 3.6es (also still own them) and Earth orbit achieved. Added tube preamp and better power cords and balanced interconnects (SMc modded for balanced operation) and Moon landing.