I've bought another vintage tuner/amp. It's the same model as the one I bought before the last one. I was a bit disappointed with that, although I did get a 50% refund from the seller on eBay. The stereo light wouldn't come on with the radio and the balance control wasn't working. It just spun, the previous owner must have accidentally stripped the threads. But apart from that, after I'd cleaned all the sockets it worked well. But I like things to be "right." This one is working as it should. The stereo light is lit, as it's on an FM station and both meters are working (tuning gang centred and signal strength indicated, although we get crap reception in the Manchester area with an indoor aerial). I've now five vintage tuner/amps. But can only accommodate two working, as I've at the moment only two sets of speakers, for this and this NAD 2020 in my "office" upstairs. The other Leak 3400, I'm going to keep as a spare. (I've already got one "spare," this Rotel RX152). The one I've had for over 15 years, this Leak 2000 ,I'm going to put on eBay. But not just yet, as there's a few on at the moment, as it's a popular model, they usually sell well. I expect to get back half what I paid for the latest one, not that it's important. I may put the Rotel, down in the tea-house, but I'll need to get a pair of speakers, they're cheap enough on eBay. I've just given my two jukebox wall boxes a service. Just a drop of oil in the right places and I gave the selector buttons a spray of switch cleaner. The coin mechanism detects and rejects the "wrong" coins, so that needs some occasional lubrication. I've not used it for a while, but one of my iPod Nano's that stores the selections for the three title card magazines I have, has packed up. They are about 20 years old. So I had to programme a spare one last night. It's a right pain, as you have to create an iTunes playlist of 160 selections and you have to get them in the right order, or you'll get a wrong track when you make a choice. I do keep the playlists on file, but iTunes can't always find some tracks when you're syncing the iPod, so you have to go looking for them. I've just bought another spare iPod on eBay. They are a lot more expensive now than they were a few years ago. But there you go.
I've been sorting out my audio stuff. I needed to put a "key" on the inside of the cupboard door, to remind me what's what. A lot of vintage and modern tuner amps, which aren't cheap, don't have as many inputs as does this one. The iPod I've ordered I'll load with the 3000 odd mp3s I have on my laptop, so I can occasionally play any of these through the Leak, rather than "my favourites" in the wall boxes. You know that draw with all those surplus adapters and leads you've got that you haven't thrown away? Well, I found a necessary DIN to mini jack plug lead in mine! At one time I could channel the sound from my TV, the Virgin tuner, the two Humax tuner/recorders, (they will only record Freeview channels. I use them to save favourite films, documentaries and concerts) and the DVD/CD player though which ever tuner/amp I was using, as I had a multi-channel selector box. But since I bought a good soundbar three years ago, (five speakers), it was no longer necessary. The TV had feet which were too far apart for the little table, so I had to buy a stand for it and some brackets to hold the soundba,r which still needed a bit of "fettling," to mount it under the TV, so it hardly notices. I did have a VHS player under there too. But I hardly used it. At one time I had a lot of film noir on VHS, but over time, these films have been shown on Freeview, though some still haven't. But a similar size TV in our lounge with another Virgin tuner, has a DVD/CD/ VHS player under it. So I could watch a rare one on that TV, but the quality of the picture on VHS, compared with what we can watch now, is rubbish.
DHR the last pic the tv has an interesting tv stand and a wind instrument showing the horn slightly in the background a saxophone? I have long changed the speaker system on my stero and tuner to wireless. Still have the same unit similar to yours.
The horn is my Yamaha YTS62 tenor sax. It "hides behind the TV for much of the time, as it's frightened of being injured by my wife when she's vacuuming."
I bought my Philips turntable in 1972. As a mid-price example, this model receives some respect by contributors to audio message boards. I replaced the original Philips cartridge with a Shure M75 ED about forty years ago. But the socket that accepts the stylus (and it's had many), was worn. Shure stopped making cartridges over ten years ago and that one hadn't been made since 1980. But I found a second-hand one on eBay. The vendor said he'd tested it and it was OK. So I bought it. It arrived today. I fitted a new stylus and checked it out. It's working fine on both channels. I don't play vinyl that much, but I like to know that it will work when I want it to.
DHR Vinyl records are coming back. Increase in revenues last year for the second year in a row from vinyl record sales surpassed CD sales. There is hope and Kudo for saving your stylus.
