[Vintage-Audio] RE: Allied Radio L-2690 and Pioneer SX-202 AM-FMtuneramplifier

[Duane Fischer W8DBF]

Rick,

Since it is almost not possible to purchase a 'good', not great', pair of 
stereo headphones for fifty bucks, I have serious doubts that any pair of 
new speakers for the same price is going to sound 'decent', let alone good. 
But what do I know? People pay fifteen dollars for a CD with audio quality 
worse than the old basement studio recordings bro Barry of MoTown did! 
(LOL!) A Ham friend of mine was here on Memorial Day from mid-state and 
asked me to play a new CD he had purchased with some oldies sock hop group 
that I had never heard the name of before. I put it on and we both listened 
to my high end homebrew stereo set the mood for a nostalgia song with 
excellent repro of the needle tracking sounds! Nothing like modern studio 
work, heh?

Don't tell Bob I said this Rick, but rumor has it that even his socks squeek 
"cheap" "cheap" when he takes his shoes off! So if you think old Bob is 
going to pay fifty bucks to purchase speakers for sound equipment he bought 
for less than two bucks, well, stranger things have happened! (chuckling)

Bob is a good guy, seriously. It just bothers me when anyone buys what he 
did for pocket change and the darn stuff works! He even plugged it right in 
Rick, never even bothered to use a VariAC! If I did that the circuit 
breakers would go off like a corn popper!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF
dfischer at usol.com


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Larson" <rick at mnbrewers.com>
To: <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: [Vintage-Audio] RE: Allied Radio L-2690 and Pioneer SX-202 
AM-FMtuneramplifier


> Bob,
> If you are looking at inexpensive speakers, the guys on a Magneplanar list 
> seem to like some $50 Insignia speakers from Best Buy.
> http://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/vt.pl?f=MUG&m=99379
>
> I have not listened to these speakers but I am curious.
>
> rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob Scupp
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 2:32 PM
> To: vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] Allied Radio L-2690 and Pioneer SX-202 AM-FM 
> tuneramplifier
>
> To All-
>
> Yesterday, we had our monthly meeting of the NM Radio Collectors Club in 
> Albuquerque. During the parking lot auction and tailgate, I purchased two 
> AM-FM Stereo tuner amplifiers. One was an Allied Radio L-2690 and the 
> other was a Pioneer SX-202. The AR was purchased for one dollar minimum 
> bid. The Pioneer was purchased for $1.50. So far, I found the digital 
> Pioneer seems to work fine except for the usual sticky switches that need 
> cleaning. The AR has RCA phono jacks only so I will need to get some RCA 
> solderless plugs. I suspect it probably works also and is analog.
>
> I may just get some inexpensive speakers for them and either give them as 
> a gift or sell them very inexpensively. Recycle and Reuse.
>
> If you wish to request photos, please do so off-list.
> Thanks.
>
> Bob K5SEP
> K5SEP at yahoo.com
>
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