Even a boom box or tranny ....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

In a "ghetto", in Brooklyn say, probably more sociable...(you dance around them, you know...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05JJqxuPHK8

Anyway! Need to get a drink while it's still halftime...

Only for those who want to hear it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and as for 'tranny'

I keep "seeing" the title as "Boom Box of Tyranny".

[AmpH]

I have enjoyed using a number of Tivoli Audio products over the years, none more so than the now discontinued portable PAL radio.

https://www.superfi.co.uk/p-3731-discontinued-tivoli-model-pal-radio.aspx

Sound quality is excellent - full and well balanced - for such a small unit and flexibility is provided by headphone and auxiliary sockets ( I sometimes use a portable cd player with it ). It often accompanies me on my (UK) travels, gets used around the house and in the garden. I bought 2 years ago - great fun to use despite their limitations.

[jayne lee wilson]

I keep "seeing" the title as "Boom Box of Tyranny".

Available on custom orders only...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-DDR8bowUM

When I first got a flatscreen tv I was appalled at the poor sound - thin and edgy. I had to improvise, ending up with two Tivoli Model Ones, their aux inputs wired to each tv output channel for stereo - with surprisingly good results.
But without remote/mute, and having to adjust two volume controls manually...
I finally got a soundbar.

The Tivolis found a good home in the bedroom, again wired as twin powered speakers to the Tivoli Model CD. A great range! Excellent on String Quartets - sonically the portables' acid test...

[oddoneout]

I keep "seeing" the title as "Boom Box of Tyranny".

With good reason if being subjected, against your wishes, to someone else's use of it?

Heathkit anyone?

Heavens that brings back memories. My father went through a phase of assembling their kits, and other bits and pieces, to arrive at his version of a Hi-Fi system. It worked well and I used the turntable and speakers for many years after he had graduated to something else. I do remember my paternal grandfather being horrified at the DIY set-up and wondering why he didn't buy 'proper' equipment.

[MrGongGong]

Never heard Harbeth or ATC Monitors? They major on neutrality and and accuracy to...get you closer...
...which is why they're often found in BBC and other recording studios. I've had my Harbeth C7mkIIs since 2001, wouldn't change them for anything...
..

ATC or Genelec I would say

Some folks find the ATC's a bit "harsh"
but the Finns know how to make wonderful speakers

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

but the Finns know how to make wonderful speakers

I remember Sonab speakers, they may have been Swedish.

[rauschwerk]

When I was desperate for music and away from home in my late teens, I would listen on almost anything, such as my gf's tiny AM radio. My first hearing of the Schubert Quintet was on that squawk box, and I recall also the Toscanini Verdi Requiem (imagine!).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When I was desperate for music and away from home in my late teens, I would listen on almost anything, such as my gf's tiny AM radio. My first hearing of the Schubert Quintet was on that squawk box, and I recall also the Toscanini Verdi Requiem (imagine!).

That reminds me of when I listened to Toscanini's Verdi Requiem on Radio 3 on an AM radio on 25th March 1967. It was the conductor's centenary, so that Saturday was a celebration (not a set of patronising tweets).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

When I was desperate for music and away from home in my late teens, I would listen on almost anything, such as my gf's tiny AM radio. My first hearing of the Schubert Quintet was on that squawk box, and I recall also the Toscanini Verdi Requiem (imagine!).

From the ages of 13-18 (when I went to University), most of my listening to R3 was done via a Mono, LW transistor radio - and the record player in the house (just the one) could never be described as "Hi-Fi". It was at this time that I started borrowing scores from the local Libraries - and found that I could hear the missing details caused by such poor equipment by using my eyes as well as my ears. I think that that's what started my lifelong love of relying more on scores (than individual recordings) when getting to know a work.

[rauschwerk]

At home I was lucky. My father bought a Ferrograph tape recorder (which I soon monopolised) when I was about 12, and soon after that we acquired an FM radio. In my later teens I used to visit the Audio Fair where I heard the revelatory Quad ESLs, speakers by Tannoy and lots of other wonderful kit. But didn't it take ages for portable kit to catch up! FM portable radios (later with tape players) and the Sony Walkman (tape then CD) came many years later. Hence the longevity of the AM squawk box (or Distortophone, as a colleague of mine dubbed it). Not only was the frequency range restricted, but the ubiquitous envelope detector (which kept the price down) produced quite severe distortion.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

From the ages of 13-18 (when I went to University)...

That's impressive, but quite along time to stay there.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That's impressive, but quite along time to stay there.

Whaddya mean?! Best paper round I ever had!