I Bought an ENTIRE Vintage Audio STORE!
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- The SHOCKING & EXCITING Tour of OVER 500 HiFi & Home Audio Components! I bought an ENITRE STORE basically site unseen! Find out what inside this Vintage HiFi Store & Repair Center!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:48 Room number 1
08:54 Room number 2
16:41 Room number 3
28:04 Room number 4 - Věda a technologie
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Nice find- I worked with Brett Mullins over 40 years ago at Atlantis Sound in Falls Church. Brett was the company service manager and at the time Atlantis had around 30 stores on the east Coast from Boston to Richmond. Brett was a technical genius. Also a great guy. Wish you would have talked a little about what Brett meant to Audio Community in the DC area. Passed way to soon.
Bob, thanks so much for sharing. I didn't know him so wasn't able to touch on it but I really appreciate you sharing!
I worked for Atlantis Sound in Cambridge, Boston and Providence. I met my wife, who worked at the Framingham store..
Someone like you is what we needed, as many did not know the man. Thank you for sharing that knowledge.
I knew Brett Mullins, who owned this shop, HiFi Heaven in Falls Church, as a customer and he worked on a number of pieces for me over the years. Brett was a true original and very gifted with electronics. He was also a great storyteller and I knew when I was going to be stopping by HiFi Heaven chances were high that it would be an hour plus trip, but worth it always. I'm glad this stuff is staying local, and that all those unfinished projects are going to get seen through to the end. But I thought your video shortchanged the talented tech who assembled this collection in the first place by just skipping over him, and not even acknowledging his death....I don't know man, it all feels kind of off, all focus on just the business of it and not so much on the human part of this place.
Sam, while I didn't know him enough to talk about him. Only meeting him once or twice. I appreciate your story of him and I hope people read it and see the great person that he was!
Very cool purchase and a great looking shop that clearly had tons of love put into it. That said, I checked the listings and the prices listed are pure comedy. $4k for a Pioneer SX-1050 😂 even in the current inflated market that is delusional.
This guy has typical used car salesman attitude and is trying to bank on a overhyped vintage audio market. Lack of knowledge cost money
An overhauled SX-1980, a far bigger, heavier, more complex unit, might sell for $2G's (it costs about a grand in parts and labor to make them reliable), but 4 grand for an SX-1080 is insane. And good luck shipping these things safely and securely. Even double boxed, the potential for major shipping damage is high.
@@photo_n_art , The proprietor is obviously too young to be familiar with much of the equipment that he just got his hands on. He could do some research and familiarize himself, but but that might cause him to have to re-evaluate what the stuff is actually worth on the used equipment market, or how much he willl have to put into it in order to make it reliable so he can sell it honestly and with full disclosure, and any knowledge that cuts into the bottom line of his profits is likely to be avoided or ignored.
No kidding! I've bought, sold & traded vintage equipment for years. His prices are insane & laughable at best, but there's a sucker born every minute as they say. Just sad he takes advantage of folks not in the know. That's just highway robbery & he know's it! No shame.
@@goodun2974 I agree on shipping, I've had loads of technics and other reel to reel machines, they weigh an absolute ton and packing was a nightmare.
Wow, you bought HiFi Heaven! I went there a few times with my son, who is super into vintage audio stuff. Brett was always really great. Too bad about his passing. Rest In Peace. Looks like the shop was quite a bit thinned down since last time I saw it, but glad there were a few gems still in there. It was quite an incredible place.
So nice to see that all those classic pieces are in good hands now again. The new technology simply can't duplicate the rich beautiful sounds of the old setups.
What a fabulous tour! I was an audio agent from 1975 to 1982 in Eastern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦for Craig Car Stereo, AKG , Alsop , Koss Headphones & Altec Lansing . You brought back so many memories calling on Stereo dealers east of Toronto to Ottawa mentioning brands like MacIntosh, Carver , Yamaha , Thorens, TEAC, AR , KEF , Kenwood & Pioneer & so many more . You are so knowledgeable on these great products. Thank you for sharing!
Brett was a legend in the DC area hifi business. He is gone too soon. Hope his family got a good bit of cash for this estate. As others have said, would have been nice to note Brett’s history. I am sure when you guys move on from Just Audio, you would appreciate the shout out for providing excellent service to the vintage hifi community
Thanks for the personal information for us viewers.
Now we know a bit more thanks to you. *thumbsup*
Glad to see how happy you were talking about the Sansui AU9900, it is my main amp.
I totally enjoyed this tour and to buy a store with all of this vintage equipment is awesome WOW 👀 ( MIND BLOWING) it's like vintage ( HEAVEN) great job going through this equipment ❤️
Thanks Reginald!!
Your knowledge of and enthusiasm for the hardware of this era is unmatched. But part of the value of these pieces is for us to get some idea of what the playback world was like when artists like Charlie Byrd Parker, arguably the finest jazz saxophone player to date, recorded their original and groundbreaking music. So I gotta say, you unknowingly scored with that Byrd album (and I hope found many more as valuable) but it would be cool if you could carve out the time to get to know more about the artists of the mid-50’s thru the mid-70’s. To playback their music is the why behind the when,where,and how this hardware was created.
Such a fun video! So much to see! Awesome pieces!
I'm old enough to remember reading reviews of many of these pieces and seeing them in audio stores in the 70s and 80s. This is an awesome collection!
OMG! AR-5's, Kyocera, (I remember my Sansui 9090DB), Tanberg was excellent, Luxman was Alpine car audio, (Luxman also made tube receivers/amps), Carver is a million watts for $50 bucks, (real crap), but at least he came out with Accuphase.
Love this channel!
The Tandberg TCD-3004 (The Original) was up to Nak Dragon standards. ...and I'm a Nakamichi fanboy. I used to work at a Stereo store, in the 80's and the boss took me to see a new Tandberg line. Tor Siverstein, of Tandberg, showed us the line, had a TCD-3004 taken apart, etc. It was a tank with very cutting edge technology. Unfortunately, they still used Tandberg grease, which tended to seize over the years.
Great info Jon! We've had the 3004 on the bench for a while now haha
The Tandberg was arguably the best sounding and performing deck of its time. I remember when it came out, it was shown at Henry Radio in Anaheim, CA, and we were all just blown away that a cassette could sound so good. Mated to it's matching receiver, it really showed what the future was like. I don't think the Nakamichi was available just yet. I was in junior high school, and my mom would drop me off, so I could buy parts, and then listen to unaffordable audio! It was also when the Thelma Houston "I've got the music in me" Sheffield Direct to Disc came out, so it was a great lesson. The speakers were Ohm Acoustics, early generation, and it was also the first time I heard the DBX Noise Reduction system for turntables to get the clicks and pops out.
So, when we heard the Tandberg, up against other components, it was remarkable. I think they also made some recordings, and then A/B the Thelma Houston on vinyl, vs the Tandberg recording.
I like the enthusiasm of this guy, he so passionate about vintage audio and he knows his stuff..
I try haha thanks for your kind words!
But he's skipping the speakers. A lot of vintage speakers still sound awesome but you can buy them for cheap. I'll stop watching the video now that I know that no speakers will be shown. ;)
Naaah man… typical car salesman attitude… if you know anything about vintage HiFi you know that B&O was overpriced pile of hot garbage just like Bose. I have seen most of the stuff when it was still sold in retail stores. The urban legends about some of the vintage gear that is spread now by millennials makes me wanna cry. A lot (if not most) of the vintage hifi was hot garbage in a shiny box, you really had to know what was half decent not to waste your money… if you have listened to heavily compressed streaming audio thru Bluetooth speakers for your whole life than yeah this will sound 1000 times better but a lot of the stuff was just cleverly marketed mediocre at best components
@@photo_n_art , I have had to repair enough Bang and Olufsen, and Bose, equipment that I know from experience just what crap it is.
@@goodun2974 Amen brother 😎👍
TT behind the B+O is a Well Tempered Record Player -unconventional design, superb sound !
Oh my GOODNESS, Lenny! So that's where you all have been! How exciting! AND (Where's my GD TV?) lol Congratulations on your great haul!
Thank you! It's in! I think Carl is supposed to call you to schedule the install.
Wow what a incredible tour and quite overwhelmed myself! Can't wait to see some of this stuff and your catalog and hope to visit your showroom one day!
Excellent treasure find...PreAMPs and AMPs UNITS are the real treasure you found..real steal ..Marantz, Mitsubishi, Yamaha,..
Really nice things, love the design on the sansui TU-9900. I have a Sansui AU-7900 Amplifier on a shelf in the basement.
You know more than anything I am just happy you all at Just Audio are doing so well. Your continued success is much deserved. I have a Grundig Satellite 800 which has all digital meters except one. Grundig's are shortwave and international radios. Late at night when you get the best atmospheric conditions you can listen far away as the UK and California, Canada, Mexico and more. Things like HUGE solar flares, listening location, RF interference and other techno-geek stuff can affect radio reception range. I'll soon be bringing in 2 Pioneer cassette decks, CTW910R and CTW850R plus a Pioneer RT707 for a record head replacement. Looking at a Pioneer SX 1980 too.
Thanks Wolf! great insight as always. When you come in, we have a 1980 setup in the listening room!
@@LennyFlorentine Get a pair of built or kit Speakerlab Ks for that Pioneer. They were killer on a 4 digit serial number( the key) Marantz 2270. They should be as good. Don’t play the first band of the sound track from Earthquake at full volume ( as my sister did by accident) if you want to keep your sliding glass doors or windows uncracked!!!
Awesome video took me down memory lane shopping HiFi gear that I could never afford as a kid
Might have been nice to acknowledge the passing of Brett Mullins, the owner of HiFi Heaven and the store that you bought. He was a good guy and this video feels like gleefully picking through the belongings of a dead man. Yeah, it's a delicate balance, but maybe just a tip of the hat at some point would have been nice.
When you're buying estate stuff it would be weird to mention whoever owned it unless you personally knew them. I can't pin down the exact reason atm but it feels wrong to bring up whoever's stuff it was when you have no connection to them.
@@Sirmooses This is different than buying from a nameless estate. HiFi Heaven was a well-known audio store/repair shop in the same general area that was around for decades. I'm sure the folks at Just Audio were familiar with Brett and his business. Seems kind of cold just to ignore him.
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Are you saying he is like some kind of buzzard?
@@samuelnorton7012 yes lol
looking forward to your follow up videos, I cannot imagine having an inventory so large. I guess you are going to be busy testing and servicing all the vintage units you just picked up and I will be in touch looking for some best buys , I really need a good cd player, probably an entire new stack of components. I will look for your videos and just wanted to say I am glad you added to your store, it is great that you love the equipment as much as your customers and are quite knowledgeable. I just am looing for any reliable clean unit, not stuck on any brand. I will get back to you August 2022 when I see something in my price range. Yo!
Had a musical fidelity A1 back in 89.great class A amp,nice to see some quad and meridian also, had lots of these brands mid 80s 90s .
We called it the boot scraper. Great sounding little amp if mated with the right speaker.
@@fredthompson1279 , But damn those things ran hot. I did find a video on CZcams recently of somebody rebuilding one of those and doing some mods to improve performance.
Fun video! You had me at big VU meters 😊
Thanks! Can never pass on those!
The Lafayette unit in the second room looks like the one I used to have. It had a sticker on back that said it was made in 1969. It had an hook up for both ceramic and magnetic needle turntables with a low and high switch.
Wow that is a great load of vintage audio i could spend months looking at every thing .
Yep, that got me to look up where you are. Not too far from Philly. Might drive down and see you!!
You definitely should!
The Revox !! I'm in love wish I had the cash to buy that one very special indeed CD or Reel to reel Amazing the absolute best European gear bar none. Turntable very rare
I've had a Rotel amplifier once, that thing was powerful and it sounded nice.
You got huge collection of vintage audio systems --- Congratulations.
Great video and so much good equipment! I run a small vintage audio repair business here in New Zealand and recognize a number of models especially the Sansui AU9900 they are such a nice piece and the Perreaux as they were made here in NZ. If I was there would be like a kid in a candy store. Good luck with moving all that gear too!
Awesome dudes. Honestly, this reminded me of going to a car boot sale early on a Sunday morning back in 1990 lol. Every stall had gear, and cheap too. This is rare these days, I feel your vibes dudes. Well done 👏
So exciting to go through that pile of awesome!
Nice! That BGW power amp is one of my favourites driving klipschorns
5:00 minute mark - Burhoe Acoustics "Blue" model - my friend had these in the late 70's. Designed by Winslow Burhoe. Used to blast rush and Pink Floyd through them. Great, rare speakers.
Dude they are great sounding!
Still have my Crimson Burhoes...completely rebuilt and ungraded the tweeters from the Light Blue model....for some reason some of the Crimsons had a hard dome and some came with the inverted domes...since one of my domes wasn't original the matching inverted tweeters were a great find.
Its crazy, I have those Sanusi woofers on your video background, they rock! Mine are a pair of SP-7's
Would you happen to have an extra one of those horn tweeters? Or know of a rebuild? Love how they sound.
I took out one of the tweeters with a Kenwood 200w a channel amp cranking Tool.
I really want that SAE EQ...matches my gear...depends on how much you love it
That is really cool! Get the complete list and put your name on it here eepurl.com/h7dXOn
I love this video very much & this is heaven for every people who love vintage hifi
Would be cool to configure a complete system out of all that gear, of matching brand and vintage, and list that as a unit, and or do a review of it. (p.s. as mentioned by others below, owner was Brett Mullins of HiFiHeavenRepairs, Falls Church Va, passed age 63, some info on webs)
Oh my, yes, that was an untimely passing. Can't help but wonder how the worry of managing an audio/hifi business weighed upon Mr Mullins, with so many disappearing day after day.
He was taken too soon.
Congratulations on your purchase!
My head is spinning seeing all this stuff, and it must be a little overwhelming for you too... This looks like a house of someone that collected and repaired vintage audio more so than a store...
I have a feeling that most of the stuff there is not in 100% working order and will need to be serviced... Either that or turned into boat anchors..lol
Either way, looks like you and your guys are going to be very busy for a long time sorting all this stuff out...
Best of luck!
@17:04 I LOVE THAT REVOX REEL-TO-REEL!
Loved the show on the store that you just purchased. I am a old school guy on stereo equipment. I love Denon Equipment. Looking for Denon POA 6600 Monoblocks. Have several Denon Pieces. Loved the tour on your new STORE. 😍
Hey Guys, thank for sharing your recent equipment purchase with us. I am
Interested in knowing the part number of the Kyocera receiver. Thank you!
Great video. Theta was absorbed into ATI. One of the original designers is now one of the head honchos at Schiit, Mike Moffat. YBA is alive and kicking, high end stuff.
Very good info! Thanks so much for sharing!
Dynakit Mark IV was a mono power amp. It is a mono block with the Stereo 70 design.
Lots of great stuff. The Roksan in room 4 is pretty high end stuff. Will fetch a pretty penny.
That National is a Preamplifier from the National Radio Company of Malden Massachusetts, a well know manufacturer of Amateur (Ham) Radio equipment, in business from 1914 to 1991. The preamp is part of their Criterion Line of Broadcast AM/FM receivers from 1956. They are not related to National Panasonic.
Looks like a big workshop repairing for other shops ?
But it is cool, somebody taking care of this items 😎
Best wishes SB.
Thanks Stig!
I liked that HH Scott stereo amp in room one. I have the identical amp that was a kit that I built in 1965 and over the years had to repair it a few times, but it's a great stereo amp. I might be interested in the one you have, even if it isn't working. I still have the schematic and the construction manual and spare parts for mine.
Looking for a onkyo TX31 receiver(30 watts per chnl) anybodty have one??‽???
thats fun going over all the items
Loved the walk around
✨You bought 4 rooms of JUNK!😂😂😂
Maybe, we will see
Thank you for the video! What is the model of viena remotes?
you gotta this, and you gotta that and you gotta a whole lotta work ahead of you!!
NAD 7100 is actually a very nice piece. Have one with the remote.
This is the best way to be a Hi-Fi Buff or "audiophile", just buy and sell everything and then you get to try everything out, there's tons of great hi-fi old and new. I hope everything gets saved here
That Charlie Byrd Trio album you pulled down in the first room - He and his brother Joe were MD. residents and quite famous jazz musicians, saw them often at the Maryland Inn's King of France tavern when I worked there in the 70's, check it out!
Wow really Scott! very cool info on a local band that I had no idea about. Will have to keep that one!
he did state department-sponsored good will tours in the 60s.
My 2 faves are the AU 9900 and the G-5700 , I have the G-9000 And love it's sound .
I had an Acutrack Turntable in the late 70s. Very cool when it worked.
The DCM TF-600s are a great pair of speakers. I owned a set for 20 years.
can you tell more about them, like their degree of neutrality, imaging, power requirements?
I would love to know what which model those infinity book shelf speakers are,
Am looking for a period correct pre amp to compliment my 1977 Pioneer 8500 series 2 amplifier
So hows the sorting going? Quite a haul of nice equip. Has to be a blast actually going thru it and checking it out as you go. I would have trouble stopping long enough to get some sleep lol.
Maybe 10% through it if that
I love all of them but Marantz, NAD, Mackintosh, Mark Levinson, SAE, Luxman, Nakamishi, Sansui, Revox, Tandberg, Perreaux, Dynaco and ADCOM are up to another level! Suddenly watching the video I thought was in heaven!
What??
So no mention of WHY this was shop was even up for sale? Brett's passing was a loss to our community and as a fellow repair shop owner you truly missed an opportunity to pay him some respect. Would have taken 30 seconds.
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I hope you guys have a great bench tech, you are going to need one
Amen. That could keep a tech busy for years. Some of that stuff will be a real bear to fix.
You mean five more bench techs.
Even if the knobs and cosmetic parts and screws and so on are with the equipment when it sat in the store on a shelf, they might not still be with it when it arrives at their new home.
Great find! Lovely pieces of gear from the golden age.
I wouldn't mind seeing more of the Heathkit ar-1515, such an interesting and great sounding receiver.
Good call doing all the rooms in one video. Let's go 🔥 r u going to Doma speaker video too. I'm very interested in the speakers to be honest.
Love the channel man. Advice it be pretty cool if you would invest in stores Nationwide that don't have vintage repair or sell audio in there cities like Bakersfield Ca.
What size dumpster did you need for all the cassette players?
I fix those Sunfire amps. They usually at minimum buzz or hum if they haven't been serviced.
Feel free to reach out if you need it fixed or sold for parts
Email us your info! Sales@just-audio.com
24:44 that Denon with the fault sticker... it's missing a power rail. Had one with the same exact fault. It's missing the 5V rail to the main microcontroller IC. Unfortunately I forgot if it was a shorted cap or a blown Zener diode.
Any chance you might have a service manual with schematics, for a Draco Labs Micro CPU 100 tuner? Yeah it is a later production unit as it does not have the Sherwood logo on it. I have one and it is sick. The little power supply board has lots of black color to it, and I am scared to touch that board.
You got a lot of work ahead of you =) nice stuff
That Luxman turntable is awesome!
24:57 you have never heard of Perreaux? A New Zealand company that was mainly professional sound rather than hifi but they did do hifi as well, that 6000 is actually a professional 'mosfet' amp rather than hifi, but the 6000 and 8000 were so good they were sort after by audiophiles. made late 80s through to mid 90s. very popular with bands because very powerful and very reliable and very clean. 6000 was rated at 300 WRMS 8 ohms and 500 WRMS 4 ohms
All good stuff wow super cool!!
I’m currently rocking a DBX BX3 MKII with the matching CX3 MKII preamp. Happy to see another DBX amp, even if it’s mines little brother
Very cool David! Yeah you don't see either of them often!
@@LennyFlorentine if y’all ever wanna make a video on her just let me know! More than happy to lend the amp over so you can show er’ off.
What were the tall skinny speakers called that used actual wires rather than cones and magnet speakers?
I liked the Revox reel to reel in the first room I think.
Congratulations on your investment
Keepin the vintage alive, Awesome!
Thanks Jeffrey! Hope you enjoyed it!
b&o 8000 was the top of the line stereo came with a wireless remote for 1978
A lot of these brands, i never heard of before. Any Technics receiver/amplifier that puts out about 140 to 200 watts per channel?
That's Accutrac Turn Table is sweet! dang
Cool stuff, it reminds me of my early days in electronics 😀
Thanks Alex!
You were a bit casual about the Nakamichi T-100 analyser (rare and limited production, have one) and the big Quad ESL Electrostatic speakers ;-) Nice equipment there, still drooling!
Thanks Jan! Had no idea about the T-100 until I got flooded with e-mails.
@@LennyFlorentine Keep it if it works. It's a great unit to diagnose audio equipment and the display is soooo nice ;-)
@@Z4NL i use a T100 on my bench at work (audio repair shop). Excellent low distortion signal generator, distortion meter and power-output meter. I don't use it for tape deck measurements but one of the other techs does..
@@goodun2974 To align tape and cassette deck heads you will need the Nakamichi reference tapes. The signal generator and pink noise generator are very useful. Very desirable due to the nice and responsive gas discharge display.
@@Z4NL , yes, I'm aware ---- I work with a guy who has been servicing Nak decks for 30 years, and he has the reference tapes. Myself, I use the T-100 for measuring amplifier output power and distortion.
Those manuals look minty fresh!!
I enjoy that stuff!
Thats soo great! Super! Hope you got some diamonts!? Greetings from Old Europe
I never thought that in my lifetime i would see soooo many things obsolete! The big crt tubes for tv and other uses, the video machines, the reel to reel, Video laser disks, the cassettes, dvds, the cds, the modems … i can go on and on and IM ONLY 60 yrs old!!
Is that a Tannoy dual concentric speaker up on the top shelf of room 2?
Evrrbody just have to love this fab channel and The real Nice presenter. He just LOVES ALL THOSE VINTAGE AUDIO GEMS. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😀👍
Wow, thank you Per-Henrik!
Wow, enjoyed this video
I'm drooling hard over those DCM speakers and that RX-505. Your comment about enjoying old ads gives me an idea for my own channel... I have boxes full of old audio brochures from the 80s I collected as a kid. I used to obsessively fill out those reader service cards in Stereo Review, and somehow they kept sending me stuff. Some of those have to be pretty rare now, but I was an audio obsessed kid and I wore them out just looking at them over and over. Call me a subscriber!
Thanks Wolf! Love the old ads, and I use them regularly! The DCM's didn't make it but the RX-505 looks to be pristine!
Lots of those old DCMs around (unless they were the TF-2000) - I'm sure a pair will turn up once I have the money and space. I wish I had the budget for the 505... I almost prefer those to the Dragon. If you'd showed a 1000ZXL in this video yet too I think I'd have absolutely lost my mind!
have had DCM speakers for almost free from my days with CC . Their sound got old fast on me except the CX27. The TF and TW line just needed more dynamics and highs for me . Too flat for me .
I could see that... I heard a pair of TF-1000s back in the 80s and loved how they sounded then, but I wouldn't call them too groundbreaking myself. I'd rather have a good pair of Magnepans for serious listening, but I'd still love to get a pair of TFs just to have something I could only dream of owning as a teen.
@@joeygonzo , DCM Time Windows were built with ordinary Philips drivers and sounded very blah, syrupy, sluggish and muddy.
Finally, we could see some European pieces. B & O and Tandberg are precious but, Grundig Satellite and Saba are gems.
I’m not well versed in B & O but everything I’ve ever come across from them look awesome but leave a lot to be desired in the actual sound/capabilities
@@DavidBrown-zp5br , I have reluctantly repaired dozens of Bang & Olufsen pieces. They are junk.
Back when, I owned a Dynaco and Dynakit, pretty certain the same ones you've got. Wow ..... I miss those.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
That Carver pre-amp was a spin-off of Phase Linear's 4000 pre-amp, a real gem of the 70's.
Hello folks. If I'm right Phase Linear become Krell.
Ride Easy
I only chance on your channel occasionally, I usually go for either EE or theory, or history, but no disrespect.
One observation about this episode: Freeze-framing the test equipment, it might be worth as much as the audio equipment combined, as I'm sure your partner already knows! Just the stereo inspection scope, which I couldn't see the brand of, could still be worth _thousands_ as-is (glass doesn't go bad, oculars are replaceable.) I bet there's tons of frequency generators, power supplies, distortion analyzers, etc. That will make you a ton of money if your partner doesn't keep it!
Besides that, if you're not a McIntosh fetishist, every NAD piece is a treasure. All of them. And, if I'm not hallucinating, you didn't point out a TEAC or similar Korean War-era "portable" reel-to-reel, tube throughout and modular. These sound *amazing*, as do the Sansuis which frequently have a similar provenance if from the 60s (GIs bringing them home after buying them and using them on base.) If that is one of those folding, portable, modular power and pre reel-to-reels from the late 50s, you have to give a listen while it lives; unfortunately, they also tend to have unobtanium, as do the early germanium PNP transistor equipment.
So yeah, dig deeper to get viewers like me! And do a video on the test equipment if you can.
Thanks for all the knowledge! Glad to have you watching at least sometimes Scott!