It strikes me as very odd how almost everyone wants feedback from me these days - even my bank now asks me for transaction fb when I buy things!
Anyway, hello peeps from the forlorn UK. My main electronics interest is not audio but vintage calculators (early 70s), but having decided to treat my niece to her very first 'proper' hi fi (compared to a smart TV and sound bar) for her 18th bday later this year, I had the idea to graft one of those android car head units onto a vintage amp I have, to make it 'cool' and also be able to talk with her cellphone.
But I might have to forget that idea - the vintage amp I had in mind is a Metrosound ST20 which I bought for £10 in 2011, and I only bought it because it was made in the town where I grew up and now live in. My main interest these days is local history.
Well, I had always assumed that the ST20 was bargain basement, but on a fresh surfing of the waves to start my idea off, that seems not to be quite true and I now can't bring myself to cannibalise it! Instead, I might restore (recap and possibly reswitch) it, try to add more separates (I just grabbed a very poor condition companion 8-track deck on eBay), and one day donate the system to the local museum... if they can find room for it.
My surfing brought me to the ST20 thread on this forum, and it was so interesting and potentially useful that I decided to sign up to express my gratitude. I must give a special thanks to Mooly the mod... I might just be coming back in a while to ask for more insight into the schematic Mooly! Old calculators rarely have any sort of audio capability, and those that do are best not mentioned here!
Cheers, amplifryer
Anyway, hello peeps from the forlorn UK. My main electronics interest is not audio but vintage calculators (early 70s), but having decided to treat my niece to her very first 'proper' hi fi (compared to a smart TV and sound bar) for her 18th bday later this year, I had the idea to graft one of those android car head units onto a vintage amp I have, to make it 'cool' and also be able to talk with her cellphone.
But I might have to forget that idea - the vintage amp I had in mind is a Metrosound ST20 which I bought for £10 in 2011, and I only bought it because it was made in the town where I grew up and now live in. My main interest these days is local history.
Well, I had always assumed that the ST20 was bargain basement, but on a fresh surfing of the waves to start my idea off, that seems not to be quite true and I now can't bring myself to cannibalise it! Instead, I might restore (recap and possibly reswitch) it, try to add more separates (I just grabbed a very poor condition companion 8-track deck on eBay), and one day donate the system to the local museum... if they can find room for it.
My surfing brought me to the ST20 thread on this forum, and it was so interesting and potentially useful that I decided to sign up to express my gratitude. I must give a special thanks to Mooly the mod... I might just be coming back in a while to ask for more insight into the schematic Mooly! Old calculators rarely have any sort of audio capability, and those that do are best not mentioned here!
Cheers, amplifryer
Thanks AllenB! Which ones grab you? I try to go for pre-microprocessor tech and definitely no LCD displays (except for a few exceptions), both of which seem to mark me out as a bit odd. I hope to study their electronics and reverse engineer them one day, when I have more time.
A 1970 Toshiba BC-1215 should be arriving today: not so outstanding but it does have 8-segment digits (the digit 4 having a proper 'tail' to the right of its vertical bar).
I also have a few old mechanical adders, the best one being a Burroughs Class 1 of c.1903.
A 1970 Toshiba BC-1215 should be arriving today: not so outstanding but it does have 8-segment digits (the digit 4 having a proper 'tail' to the right of its vertical bar).
I also have a few old mechanical adders, the best one being a Burroughs Class 1 of c.1903.