Audio HiFi Ads of 1980 - All of the great gear that year had to offer, speakers, receivers, amps
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- A look at what gear was popular in 1980. As we transitioned from the 1970's into the 1980's, gear manufacturers like Sony, Pioneer, Technics, KEF, Yamaha, Sansui, Hitachi, Ohm, TEAC and many others produced some very cool gear.
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That was a great video for myself, as I was working in HiFi stereo sales from 79-83. I miss all the really cool stuff from back then. Thanks :_)
I don't know who did the Pioneer ads in the late 70s and early 80s but they were always eye catching.
I have the AIWA system M501, with a set of IMF Super Compact's - Excellent spec cassette deck and pre+power amp. Great to see an original ad for it! Loved the video, thanks!!
I loved this video. The 80s were a great decade for me. My wife surprised me with a Harman Kardon PM 650 Integrated amp and a TU 610 tuner in 1984. We bought a pair of DCM Time Window 1A speakers that we couldn't afford in 1984, and she surprised me with a Technics CD player for my birthday in 1985. I bought an HK CD291 cassette deck too. All the components were in glorious silver! I still have the amp and tuner. Thanks for another trip down memory lane!
It's good to revisit those old ads to remind us of what was going on in that time. I would like to see some cartridges from that time (Stanton 681 EEE, and Shure V15 III, and IV, and even M91ED) come back and be manufactured again! Not to mention some speaker companies be revived (such as EPI/Epicure.) I know if that would happen, and the quality was the same, I WOULD be buying them! No question about it!
I had a pair of ESS AMT 1B's back in 1979. Traded them in for ADS 910's.
The KLH computer-controlled loudspeakers were IRC from the five seconds when they were owned by infinity. The bass computer used a combination of motion control and filtering to provide accurate deep bass. The analog computer was inserted in a receiver's tape loop as well as connecting to the high-level speaker outputs of the amp. So a lot going on there, but apparently very effective. This was on the KLH 1, 2, and 3 models.
Really Good video! You showed the Dahlquist DQ-10's. My opinion was the finest speakers that were ever made. They needed a lot of power to run them.
My sideline in the late 80s was buy and sell of used CDS. Dau Angeles Pampanga is where US Clark air base is located.
Thanks for this video, when you said Jensen stereo was the thing to have, yes, even in Costa Rica that was true, if you had the bi amped Jensen R430 plus a couple of Jensen speakers 6x9, thaaat was the cool thing to have in those days!
Many thanks 😊
I was 10. Had the whole zenith lineup ..allegro 4000 speakers.... system sounded incredible.
Phase Linear in the 80's was owned by Pioneer. At the higher end the speakers were basically HPMs with TAD tweeters. I have never seen the speakers in the wild.
What, no Marantz ads? 😮 Very interesting piece - I was in high school around that time and remember some of those ads.
Nice work. Thanks.
$28 grand for the infinity IRS. Just a few years later, it jumped to $65,000.
Another interesting view point, thanks for your hard work
Enjoyed that video Scott. I grew up in high school and college during the 80s and it was the golden age of audio as we went into the 90s as well. Started building my system with a pair of carver speakers in 1990 and 30 years later finished it with a six figure system, using many of the components that you talked about. Keep the videos coming my friend.
The Allison speakers were very soft and tame sounding. If there was a total opposite of JBL, they were it. The opposite of the Pioneer HPM series also which were a perfect example Japanese colration in a speaker. Not very natural sounding. Roy Allison designed the AR 5 speakers, which came out in 1969 and they ran concurrently for awhile with the AR 3A. The Dahlquists were more interesting speakers, they didn't sound like a box, and had a very different spatially free sound, but seemed lacking in bass compared to many speakers. The later vessions of the Dahlquist Dq10 were intended to mimic the sound of the old Quad ESL57. Although they look like they were meant to look something like them, right from the start.
Hi, really enjoy your videos and passion. Would love to get a pdf or copy of the Onkyo tx-7000 ad you showed! Thanks