Things You Threw Away

[Witterings]

I just thought I'd google and see if I could find my old amp and speakers from when I was a kid and found my old amp / receiver a Marantz 1530

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and the speakers I had

Vintage Marantz 4G HiFi Speakers - 40 W + New Grills | eBay

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Bit sick now and possibly as good a quality as modern day equipment

My parents also got rid of some Wharfedale speakers which I now believe to be Lintons and a whole Marantz seperates system to replace it with an all in one as one of my sisters wide boy boyfriends convinced them it was better ... probably took the old gear away to save them having to get rid of it 😱

What have you got rid of and lived to regret?

 

[Al ears]

I just thought I'd google and see if I could find my old amp and speakers from when I was a kid and found my old amp / receiver a Marantz 1530

Marantz 1530 Receiver | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Marantz 1530 Receiver at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

and the speakers I had

Vintage Marantz 4G HiFi Speakers - 40 W + New Grills | eBay

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Bit sick now and possibly as good a quality as modern day equipment

My parents also got rid of some Wharfedale speakers which I now believe to be Lintons and a whole Marantz seperates system to replace it with an all in one as one of my sisters wide boy boyfriends convinced them it was better ... probably took the old gear away to save them having to get rid of it 😱

I never really threw anything away, most went in my brothers direction.... 🙂

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Mostly me too.

 

[michael hoy]

All my LP's along time ago, some are now collectable.
🙁

 

[Al ears]

All my LP's along time ago, some are now collectable.
🙁

Doh!

 

[Friesiansam]

What have you got rid of and lived to regret?

My old Technics CD player, although it might seem a bit lacking now. My memory is a bit hazy/absent but, I think it was this one: https://www.hifispeaker.wiki/item/technics-sl-ps50

 

[Edbostan]

I just thought I'd google and see if I could find my old amp and speakers from when I was a kid and found my old amp / receiver a Marantz 1530

Marantz 1530 Receiver | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Marantz 1530 Receiver at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

and the speakers I had

Vintage Marantz 4G HiFi Speakers - 40 W + New Grills | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage Marantz 4G HiFi Speakers - 40 W + New Grills at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

Bit sick now and possibly as good a quality as modern day equipment

My parents also got rid of some Wharfedale speakers which I now believe to be Lintons and a whole Marantz seperates system to replace it with an all in one as one of my sisters wide boy boyfriends convinced them it was better ... probably took the old gear away to save them having to get rid of it 😱

What have you got rid of and lived to regret?

Wharfesale Teesdale SP2s

 

[Edbostan]

My old Technics CD player, although it might seem a bit lacking now. My memory is a bit hazy/absent but, I think it was this one: https://www.hifispeaker.wiki/item/technics-sl-ps50

Technics cd players were good. I part exchanged my SLP222 for a Kenwood 1100SG which weighed a ton and thought to be so superior. It wasn't

 

[Witterings]

All my LP's along time ago, some are now collectable.
🙁

I didn't chuck mine out ... I put them in the loft which hits stupid temperatures in the summer many years ago. Something fell against the box they're in, their shape now resembles the curvature on this taco but not quite so bad.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jokari-240060-Stands-Hands-Free-Holders/dp/B009JYMAV0?th=1

One of them has Deep Purple's Smoke on The Water on it ... In limited edition Purple Vynyl

 

[plastic penguin]

The only hi-fi component I've thrown away was my Pioneer SA 706. Every knob and switch was knackered. If I'd kept it and had it repaired it would be worth 100s of pounds now. Hindsight is a cruel mistress.

 

[WayneKerr]

I just thought I'd google and see if I could find my old amp and speakers from when I was a kid and found my old amp / receiver a Marantz 1530

and the speakers I had

Vintage Marantz 4G HiFi Speakers - 40 W + New Grills | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage Marantz 4G HiFi Speakers - 40 W + New Grills at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

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Bit sick now and possibly as good a quality as modern day equipment

Ooh, Marantz speakers! Could be worth a punt... I'd then have a complete Marantz system 🙂

 

[WayneKerr]

Most of my previous gear went my sisters way. She doesn't want my Marantz Pearl Lites so I guess I'll move them on someday.

 

[michael hoy]

One of them has Deep Purple's Smoke on The Water on it ... In limited edition Purple Vynyl

That was one of albums i gave away.

 

[treesey]

....can't have been that limited edition if two people just on this thread had them 😀

As I've said before, I never throw stuff away and rarely sell anything. My first record deck was/is a Sansui SR222mk2 and I had/sold a Sansui receiver, which I replaced in 1980 with the Crimson Elektrik 510/520 combo. I listen to the Crimson 520 on a daily basis. The only other bit of kit I've sold was a pair of Mordaunt Short speakers. Spent loads on them new, but never liked them.

Everything else is stacked up or being used.

 

[Symples]

Most of my cassette recordings from the radio.
200+ tapes from 40 years ago (this month!)

 

[Al ears]

Most of my cassette recordings from the radio.
200+ tapes from 40 years ago (this month!)

Me to, and not so long ago.
kept some self-recorded pub rock tapes even though I have nothing currently to play them on.....

 

[Witterings]

kept some self-recorded pub rock tapes even though I have nothing currently to play them on.....

I still have some like this of me playing in bands / doing gigs at school in the loft somewhere. I also boxed up and put my cassettes deck up there.
I also found the other day an interface that plugs into a PC with RCA inputs on it, I should probably dig them all out and see if I can record them onto my PC for posterities sake.

 

[Gray]

Most of my cassette recordings from the radio.
200+ tapes from 40 years ago (this month!)

Still got all my cassettes (Ferric, chrome, ferrichrone, metal)....pretty sure there are some Laskys branded ones from 1972.
(And still got a few decks for playback).

 

[camcroft]

(And still got a few decks for playback).
Just make sure you have got the right cables for them😉

 

[Gray]

Just make sure you have got the right cables for them😉

Have never thrown one away 👍
I've always made and used my own - in the (misguided) belief that there would be an advantage compared to the freebies.
(Possibly a durability benefit, but how much do you ever even touch yours? 🤔)

 

[Al ears]

Still got all my cassettes (Ferric, chrome, ferrichrone, metal)....pretty sure there are some Laskys branded ones from 1972.
(And still got a few decks for playback).

Yep, I kept at least 20 unopened chrome tapes.

 

[plastic penguin]

Still got all my cassettes (Ferric, chrome, ferrichrone, metal)....pretty sure there are some Laskys branded ones from 1972.
(And still got a few decks for playback).

Think I have some TDK Chrome cassettes somewhere. No idea why I've kept them. Not had a cassette deck since the late 1990s.

Think we're all a bit weird.

 

[Gray]

Think we're all a bit weird.

Can't deny that 🙃

 

[Al ears]

Think I have some TDK Chrome cassettes somewhere. No idea why I've kept them. Not had a cassette deck since the late 1990s.

Think we're all a bit weird.

more than a bit....
probably the same reason I keep a drawer full of string and cables and stuff that I might need at some time in the future....
having said that my brother thinks I am amazing as always have the bits he is missing. 🙂

 

[plastic penguin]

more than a bit....
probably the same reason I keep a drawer full of string and cables and stuff that I might need at some time in the future....
having said that my brother thinks I am amazing as always have the bits he is missing. 🙂

I have my hi-fi drawer, full of old tat: Speaker & I/C cables, din plugs (when were they last used?); old switch which I think was from my old JVC amp....

Not sure why we do it, it serves no real purpose. Think I need therapy....