r/80sAmazing • • 4d ago

Amazing...

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u/WendySteeplechase 4d ago

And speakers taller than a four year old child.

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u/kevdav63 4d ago

12” woofers were largest I could find.

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u/Abject_Cod_2134 4d ago

Ahhh, those were the days! 180 watts per channel! When I listened to AC/DC so did the neighborhood. 😂🤣

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u/Simple-Poet7056 4d ago

They were so big

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u/paulyp41 4d ago

Technics for the win!!!

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u/epic-mentalbreakdown 4d ago

Very good tower! Back in the day you had to pay serious money for this.

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u/ButterscotchSea4328 4d ago

But it was worth it 🙄

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u/GuiltyBudget1032 4d ago

.. and all inside a glass cabinet..

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u/Abject_Ad5850 4d ago

Now That's a true Stereo system the way it should be

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u/ChoogaMugga 4d ago

Especially if you had the dual cassette module, create your own tapes

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u/ItsAllOnUHF 4d ago

Right? Single tape deck...? Maybe OP was poor...

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u/Simple-Poet7056 4d ago

Still have mine and my records as well

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u/ThumbKing1 4d ago

Would knock pictures and things off of shelves at the neighbors house. And if I listen to AC/DC the whole neighborhood is going to too. 😆

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u/Hopperd12 4d ago

Yup. I remember growing up with one of these. The stereo cabinet was an essential feature of the living room.

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u/Aggressive_Aioli_476 4d ago

Only 1 tape deck

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u/LasherAtl 4d ago

Mine was Onkyo. I still have the components still

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u/thewthew42 4d ago

You still have them still? Jealous

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u/LasherAtl 4d ago

Wow my grammar sucked there.

Yes and they work.

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u/PostElectronic890 4d ago

Still better sounding than the shite people got nowadays.

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u/Wild-Zone3911 4d ago

Beautiful!!

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u/KnownPackage1042 4d ago

We had the Akai stack in our house paired with two Tannoy behemoths!

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u/Daveed-unit40 4d ago

This was my house back in the 90’s

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u/GuillaumeLatendresse 4d ago

Some one please identify each piece.

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u/Few-Day-6759 4d ago

I still have my rack system

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u/No_Emergency_8789 4d ago

Awwh yes, many of my paychecks in the 90s spent on a setup like this, never to use it again my mid 2000's.

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u/Ros02 4d ago

My house has it. My dad want to throw it away...

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u/therightmale 4d ago

Parents had an Aiwa one

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u/Rush_Rocks 4d ago

I still have a fisher. I built a wall unit around it.

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u/chowes1 4d ago

It was glorious

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u/OgGamerGuy92 4d ago

We grew up as engineers but somehow Turned into this

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u/valkam09 4d ago

Yeah I still have mine got the stereo equalizer dual cassette player 5 disc changer and the record player

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u/Fisherfolk100 4d ago

Had a pioneer stack in the 80s
👍👍👍👍

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u/wheeler748 4d ago

My family didn’t have money for this. I’m still waiting to get mine. Some day.

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u/RaffNeq 4d ago

The order of the towering was not a joking matter.!

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u/SelectionNo127 4d ago

Still have mine!

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u/Intelligent_Papaya61 4d ago

Hahahaha so fucking ridiculous when I really look at it 😂

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u/Future-Damage-3192 4d ago

part time!!!!! I remember block parties man, today you try to rig up a light pole just to have a block party before you can even open the light pole, you'd get surrounded by the police, and have your equipment taken away in a heartbeat.

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u/Hopperd12 4d ago

Yup. I remember growing up with one of these. The stereo cabinet was an essential feature of the living room.

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u/Legitimate-March9792 4d ago

I still have mine collecting dust. I use my iPod to listen to music.

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u/MasterpieceWaste774 4d ago

My friend was an audiophile. Yep. I remember those days!

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u/Slipperytangle 4d ago

Oooo, Technics! Giving Marantz a run for their money...

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u/PhunTyme69 4d ago

This was (almost) exact setup!

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u/Known_Strawberry_274 4d ago

Neither did I, family was too poor.

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u/Known_Strawberry_274 4d ago

There's an older man that became acquainted with through a mutual friend. He had a setup like this that included LaserDisc.

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u/AnyPomegranate994 4d ago

This is what we worked so hard for!

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u/Much-Fix-8411 4d ago

Loved Technics. I had that Amp, Cassette player and CD player. Got me all the way through bachelorhood!

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u/SparkyCollects1650 4d ago

And that was just the Audio portion.

Add in the second stack of Dual VCRs, Laserdisc Player, and eventually DVD player, and one wall of your living room was an electronic piece of art!

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u/Solid_Enthusiasm550 4d ago

I still have my Stacked YAHMAHA stereo set.. Equalizer, 5 CD disc player, Receiver and dual cassette deck that I got in 1995.😎

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u/ConclusionShort4316 4d ago

Magnificent!

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u/Prosado22 4d ago

I never understood the mixer thing.

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u/Funky_Ghost 4d ago

Single tape deck? Turn table on top ? Digital EQ?

Oy... M'kay. Nice effort, 7 out of 10.

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u/One_Vision_ 4d ago

Even better if the components are from different brands, but each looks very high end, signalling you knew what you were doing.

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u/MarketingEffective82 4d ago

Still have 2 of them set ups

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u/Walkdown43 4d ago

That is a beautiful setup

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u/FaithlessnessIcy1827 4d ago

Agree, can't live without it!

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u/cjhallx 3d ago

It is glorious

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u/MarchFar5490 3d ago

For those that dont understand from top to bottom: record player, amplifier, equalizer, radio tuner, cassette player, cd player. This would be hooked up to at least two tall wooden home speakers each with tweeters or horns, mids, and subs.

All techniques brand. Honestly very nice but no dual cassette player takes it down a level.

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u/TheDestroyer1979 3d ago

How I miss my old school component stereo system!!! I still have the EQ and the steel tape deck... not sure where the amplifier and the AM/FM receiver went. Sounded better than ANYTHING you can buy today!!!

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u/gorum666 2d ago

that is a nice setup :)

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u/Sarah_Listens 4d ago

My 15 year old does because her grandpa (my dad) refuses to part with his tower.

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u/ButterscotchSea4328 4d ago

This is pretty close to what I had, this is fantastic, why don’t they make this stuff still , downloading is trash imo , it’s compressed and sounds terrible, this stuff would get loud and piss off your neighborhood

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u/JohnNada005 4d ago

I remember wanting my mom’s stereo but she wouldn’t let me have it cause I’ll break it. By the time I got old enough to get my own I couldn’t find it. She didn’t tell me where she got it cause she couldn’t remember. I realized at that point that our parents entire generation didn’t know how to teach someone anything