BIG VINTAGE HIFI SURPRISES in Small Town Vintage Audio Store

[@joemyers2818]

Hey Lenny; This is Joe, good job editing this. I set up the Rabco for a customer then he decided he didn't want it. It is just what I called it in the video "Rube Goldberg"-ish it was time consuming to set up but as someone said below it is a piece of history. The speakers at 10:03 are the top end of a pair of Vandersteen 5's. Thanks for coming to my store. Joe

[@LennyFlorentine]

Thanks for having me Joe! I really enjoyed it!

[@skylabsaudio]

I was surprised that the Rabco tonearm used a battery and not a 2-stroke motor. Very cool

[@briandeeley1599]

Very crude tonearm compared to linear arms available today, i would steer clear of the Rabco.

[@skylabsaudio]

Cool piece of history none the less.

[@martyxrayone]

I would steerclear of any linear arm

[@janath9118]

Thanks all for sharing these information!

[@user-bc6ok1yh4s]

Great video! Definitely took me back in time to my BX visits in the 70's and 80's.

[@janath9118]

I enjoy watching mostly the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's Hi Fi Stereo equipments. Just watching them is pleasing me. 😊 Thank you for this video!

[@ReginaldDj1]

Your doing a great Job Lenny finding all these great locations ❤

[@davidbailey6350]

That is a tremendous load of nice stuff. Thank you for the video.

[@janath9118]

I agree.

[@marcparsons1726]

Another great find, always something cooler than the next. Stay in Pa. my god! Good stuff Lenny.

[@johnarendtsz859]

Some really awesome stuff

[@karaDee2363]

Looks like a beautiful area by the river. I prefer the water too

[@hjalmarfossi5728]

Definitely gonna be a fun one

[@jim010109]

That tuner was really cool. Great video.

[@dgeorge247]

Hey Lenny , I like your videos. I love seeing the old quality gear still working. About Sankyo they made cassette decks and components for lots of brands including nakamichi and others. They didn't really market their brand name a lot of places sold them like a second line. They were a less pricy brand . But great quality. I still have one I bought new in 1979. I recently replaced the belts and little oil that still sounds great works perfectly.

[@janath9118]

Thanks for sharing this info!

[@jerzyrojek6722]

Mcintosh devices are truly timeless.

[@gotham61]

That Marantz preamp is a 7C. The 7T is the solid state version that replaced it, with "T" standing for transistor. How long ago were you there? The Little League World Series ended today, and has been going on for the last 10 days. It actually takes place across the river in South Williamsport.

[@RWTT]

I bought a Sankyo cassette deck new in the late 70’s, great basic deck.

[@JackSmith-qy9is]

Saul Marantz and I were friends when he was with Jon Dahlquist. I was Pickering's National Sales Manager and Saul and Jon recommended the Pickering XSV-3000 phono cartridge to dealers to demo the DQ10s.

[@dennisbuszko2099]

I had a sankyo cassette deck, they did not have betls for it but used large rubber bands back in the day worked awesome

[@VinylSharkTV]

wow amazing

[@82lube]

awesome, thankfully I can now admit my addiction & sadly I know I cannot enter a vintage hifi shop or I would quickly spend every dime i have.

[@janath9118]

Same here!....

[@StonerCreek74]

That's the second Sankyo cassette player I've seen. I believe they were a budget line feom Teac. I aquired one in a collection I purchased earlier this year and very cheaply made.

[@stevezeidman7224]

Another great store! Hopefully you can connect with Ed @ Vintage Audio Exchange in Jamestown, NC. It’s a great little small town and his store is loaded.

[@xprcloud]

That marrantz left tube has gone to air (as in lost vacuum, as in cracked somewhere) see the white getter? 😥

[@philjy1683]

Yea, don't let anybody turn that on with that tube in there.🔥🔥🔥

[@scottcass4243]

I've had my TD125 with an SME II arm for almost 45 years.

[@DeborahVerret-yp9fp]

I had a sankyo cassette deck. It lasted me several years. Sold it when I upgraded and made my money back on it.

[@paulp6983]

I had a Sankyo STD 200 cassette deck. The tape transport pops up and pushes the tape out when you press the eject button. I had a black one back in the 80's. That thing was the shizz!!!!

[@Secession1900]

At 3:30 you identify the Marantz preamp as the 7T. That is incorrect. The 7T was the transistor model that came after the vacuum tube model 7C you are showing.

[@UnitedStatesofAnalog]

That amp had old Telecaster top hat knobs on it! Were those original equipment on that amp?

[@hippydippy]

That was a Sansui 8080db, not a 9090db.

[@samuelg7673]

Can confirm

[@AudiophileTommy]

6:28 👉🏻 Klipsch , HAIR I SEES 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 cat I see 😺🙀

[@seattlebeard]

I enjoy your videos, but the background music is competing with your speech. I'm more interested in what you are saying.

[@LennyFlorentine]

Great info!

[@DMUSA536]

Totally agree. Does nothing to enhance your videos.

[@staceyking8890]

@@LennyFlorentineI know some are complaining about the music; however, let me know what the first song was, on this video. It was great!!

[@pervertedalchemist9944]

You can find a lot of great deals on vintage audio in small towns. Those are the places that haven't been corrupted by the pricing according to auction sites...yet...

[@rosssmith8481]

I don't know about your auctions, but at mine, I can still get a receiver or speakers for $40. Also, the prices aren't really corrupted due to greed. A typical 70's receiver to replicate today would average about $3,000

[@samuelg7673]

Sankyo is a panchiko machine manufacturer. They made that tape deck during the Japanese electronics boom when companies made everything.

[@jmialtacct]

The same Sankyo that made the transports for Nakamichi? Their pachinko machines must have been really good.

[@buddyhume9297]

The speakers you could not identify look like Vandersteen’s and the current models still have a similar design.

[@janath9118]

I know about many speaker brands but this is the first time I hear this brand name!

[@jamesstone9213]

I have an 8b .it awesome

[@richardknope1732]

I have a Sansui AU 11000A amplifier can anyone tell me about it worth keeping was in the family for years have the tuner too.

[@x5-acousticguitarstuff.2]

Your AU 11000A Amp is BEAUTIFUL.... You should 100% ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY KEEP IT.

[@TrollMeister_]

You are a great audio historian. Maybe you should teach an Audio History course at the university level. But what’s with the Confucius beard ?

[@CraigFlowers-og3oz]

How fucking cool was that Yamaha table towards the end !

[@tcrutch65]

I hate my commercial printing job. I wish to work in a vintage audio shop

[@janath9118]

Ha! Ha! 😅

[@RUfromthe40s]

the thorens is a regular TD125 that you could by a arm to adapt to any model of thorens turntables ,kind of old tangential adapted to a S-shaped arm, old good material still works today since the 60´s i have them only some regular maintenace as tube amp.´s needed new bulbs, there are a lot of receivers with tubes but only to the tuner not the sound of the amplifier, i have a pioneer that i used as a teenager who worked like that, but all in all i wanted that marantz system but expensive ,i remenber a lot of years ago people wanted to get rid of old material as they wanted more modern look so i used to buy it all for what today is 25€, receiver, turntable, open reel deck and huge but only 70 watts speakers with 4 to five ways and they sound several times better than early 80´s material or till 87 excluded

[@RUfromthe40s]

the CEC cd player was one of the best ever made i was ofered in the mid to late 90´s the top of the line of belt driven CEC cd players only in 2019 i discovered they were still for sale for 36.000€, so that one with the TOOL cd inside must be a very good and expensive one, should have tried to play it, good music with a good cd player

[@MyJoyDepecheMode]

🥰👍❤👍🥰

[@JackSmith-qy9is]

It's actually a Marantz model 7 stereo tube preamp, NOT a 7T which indicated the later transistor version. A 7C indicates a 7 preamp with a cabinet .

[@dosstodd8014]

I would question the Yamaha CT 7000 tuner being the best Yamaha ever made. Back around 1979-1980, Yamaha made a tuner called the T1. I had the cheaper T2 which was OK but nothing great. The T1 tuner on the other hand received rave reviews from every publication. Is the CT 7000 really better or is it just because it has presets that it brings more money? The T1 tuners were bringing upwards of $800-$1000 on the used market at one time, but now I see them for under 500. I was just wondering why that is.

[@martyxrayone]

Nice Marantz, but a Dyna ST70, PAS3 and FM3 would outperform it.

[@RUfromthe40s]

technics by panasonic, i have a old cassette deck on vertical position but if you look by it´s side all mecahnism is on the horizontal as the front is very thin on the side , well enough to introduce a cassette , like the receiver technics by panasonic

[@ericanderson2987]

I was GIFTED a Marantz Model 7 and 8B with Gold Tube Cage. BTW, my 7C had the Silver Knobs over the Center Controls. I also had a Thorens TD 125AB Mk II Turntable with Grace 704FB Tonearm. All are gone Those Stacked Driver Loudspeakers are i believe, KEF 101 As another said, the Background Music is irritating.

[@CraigFlowers-og3oz]

Mcintosh is my new love, I cant afford any of there shit , middle class again never gets ahead 😅

[@RUfromthe40s]

Sankyo decks are very looked for as inside have the same parts as nakamichi cassette decks and much cheaper i only know the brand as i have a friend who still uses a Sankyo receiver ,well built as others in the 70´s had mid control ,which was nice for the time being, in resume SANKYO was nakamichi, only very nice things in that store i would spend a lot of time there if not living very far . those BOSE speakers were still good Bose as the equalizer that can only be used with the speakers or if not having the equalizer they don´t work as good as they can be or could be just a old phono equalizer, that yamaha turntable tangential was before 1980

[@RUfromthe40s]

in those years north americans lived good as in Europe you can´t find half of the old material found in the U.S.

[@curelaruvalentin7520]

How much for the AKAI set ????????

[@samuelg7673]

Sadly most the vintage receivers were in the back because they were not functioning right.

[@x5-acousticguitarstuff.2]

I don't understand how People RUIN these Vintage items by ENGRAVING SERIAL NUMBERS on the Front Panels.

[@tomb9566]

Hey, I don't know if you remember me, but I told you about my father bringing home a sansui 9090db from Vietnam. I would like to send you something, and all I ask is my shipping cost back after you receive it. I don't know your sending address, but please respond if you're interested

[@maynard5492]

My uncle 1991 made lamps out of the old marantz vintage stereos and trashed the guts and now he regrets it so much. And the lamps doesn't look right to begin with.

[@LennyFlorentine]

Oh no! I kinda want to see the lamp

[@Norman-bone13]

@@LennyFlorentineme too

[@jmialtacct]

@@LennyFlorentine Right here, on youtube, there's a guy who guts cassette decks to implant a cellphone with "rolling reels" animation. There's probably a hundred or more of these frankenboxes, still earning some monetization pennies. Well, at least these were lower-end decks, not Tandbergs or Revoxes.

[@samuelg7673]

@@maynard5492 that sounds like a bizarre thing to make a lamp out of

[@janath9118]

​@@samuelg7673Yes, that's right!

[@dbert5963111]

good video lenny...but the talk over music is a tad too loud and distracting.

[@LennyFlorentine]

Good criticism, I’ll have to check the volumes on that

[@RickMahoney2013]

The merchandise would be more appealing if it was dusted and cleaned up.

[@Highlander-s5p]

You say (( there's a Sansui 9090 , it clearly says 8080 on the stereo , get some glasses ,

[@samuelg7673]

Sad someone bought the installation half and gave it a super ugly logo

[@dubdoodle7191]

Shops like these acquire items on the cheap, spit & shine them & resell to suckers for $1000's ++. Very rarely do they do a proper full restoration of recapping with full spec alignment & calibration. 1 word.... S U C K E R S