Hi Fi Ads from 1978 - Pioneer, Infinity, Sony, Sansui, Ohm, Marantz, Hitachi, McIntosh, etc.
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- What a year for Hi-Fi Home Audio! Some of the Monster receivers we know well are from this period along with a huge number of other manufacturers putting out some great products. Manufacturers like Sansui, Sony, Marantz, Pioneer, but other brands like Nakamichi, Fisher, ADS, SAE, Crown, Yamaha, Harman Kardon, Dahlquist, JBL and many others.
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I could have easily watched another hour of this, great stuff, thank you. I nostalgically recall pulling the Reader's Service Card (I believe it was called) from my father's Stereo Review magazine and checking all the boxes for which advertising brochures would be sent to you from a particular audio manufacturer that you were interested in. And some of the brochures were glossy full-color multi-page adverts that were quite impressive. The hours I spent just taking in the beautiful equipment depicted in those pictures. Incidentally, I got my driver's license in 1979, right around the time you did, which puts us in the same generation to have experienced and appreciated this golden era of hi-fi.
Thanks for the video. Takes me back to high school when I first fell in love with audio equipment and my journey began. I have the money now to buy everything I want except my teen ears. Peace, love and music.
Back in the '70s when I was 13 I would forever and a day just gawk at the McIntosh amplifiers at a stereo shop I loved going to!
I bought a pair of Videoton Minimax II D132A bookshelf speakers in about 1977 up here in Canada after hearing them at a stereo trade show. I still have them. 🙂 They were made in Hungary and were imported and marketed as the poor man's BBC LS3/5a and general opinion was they sounded about as good.
Absolutely love my SX-980. I listen to it everyday w/Hpm 100’s.
A high school friend's dad was a Boeing engineer and they had a Pioneer SX-1250 with Pioneer speakers(I can't remember the model). It was by far the best sounding stereo of anyone I knew back then. Sitting next to it while listening to the music was pretty amazing.
You said it right - The golden age of Just Audio was at its peak in 1978. The marriage of audio to video was still in its infancy. The components offered were well-built and affordable. Marantz, Sansui, Pioneer, Kenwood, Accuphase, McIntosh, Phase Linear, Nikko and especially Luxman had hit their stride.
You called it right, I978 was the pinnacle year. I'd love a time machine to go back again.
I had a pair of ADS 200Cs with the big ADS Powerplate Amp. Still have the amp. Been using it since 1984.
I purchased a Technics rack system at our PX in Italy in 79 for roughly half the price back home. Still have it.
Boy this brings back some memories. The one that stuck out to me was the ESS transar that was one great sounding speaker.
I bought a rack full of components from the military just before I was discharged in 1978. A Pioneer CT-F1000 was one of them, along with a Technics SL1400 turntable and Sansui TU-9900.
I think 1978 was the peak of audio excellence. My ship was in Japan in 1978 and I would go to the Navy Exchange and drool all over these beauties. I was sending money home to my wife so I could only afford a Kenwood KA-7100 and matching tuner and Pioneer CS-722 speakers which supposedly were never sold in the states. My friend used to loan money at interest and he bought a Pioneer Spec 1, Spec 2, Pioneer's best cassette deck and tuner and Bose 901 Series III speakers. He was single. LOL Most of the guys on the ship knew I was a HI Fi nut and they all asked me for advice. Great times. It's a strange coincidence that my KA-7100 and my son's Luxman L-80V are on the same page. Pretty cool. Thanks for even more great HI FI history!
Thank you for taking me down memory lane! Back in the day, when going thru all the audio magazines, I got just as much enjoyment reading the ads as I did the articles and reviews. Now, as for the Quadrflex brand, it was the middle of the line house brand for the big west coast retailer Pacific Stereo....with Concept being the TOLT and TransAudio the entry level house brands. In the SF Bay area along, I can remember at least 6 or 7 Pacific Stereo stores... almost every big city and town had one. There were two less than 8 miles from were I lived!
I remember getting an audiovox fm converter for my am car radio around then.
Nice trip down memory lane😊
In late 78 I was in grade 12 (Canada). My parents gave me 100 dollars for Christmas toward a stereo. I took my 100 to the post Christmas clear out at the local independently owned TV-hifi store. I bought a used Marantz 2216 receiver for 99 plus tax. Little power but good sound and that cool classic Marantz look. Took a few months to save some more cash but I eventually picked up a jvc turntable and some Altec-Lansing “Atlantic” speakers. Pretty cool for a high school kid I thought. My dad, who had a full Technics system, was quite surprised I was able to acquire a Marantz at such a bargain price.
I drooled over so much stereo gear in the day, I used to read the Radio Shack catalog over and over again. I would go into poverty to buy new stereo gear, buying selling trading. It was truly the Golden Age of Stereo. Thanks for the great memories ... now I've got my Infinity Kappa 7's to re-foam.
Great video that brings back memories of my freshman yr in college. I subscribed to Stereo Review magazine and remember the first issue I got, in the cover page there was picture of a stack of all the big receivers you mentioned titled receiver wars. Also, car stereos started to pick up too, remember replacing the original stereo cassette player on a 78 Honda Accord with a German Blaupunkt CR-2001. Those were the days!
I still have my pair of Allison:Twos that I'll be refoaming the woofers this winter and rebuilding their crossovers.