12-24-2016, 09:56 AM
Greg, that is really neat that you owned one of these STA-225s when it was new!
In 1977, I was about to graduate high school...would start working in radio the following year at a nickel above minimum wage which was...what? Around $2.15 an hour or so in '78. On that salary no kid could afford a $400 receiver. I made do with a cheap Sears (or was it J.C. Penney?) all in one table unit which had AM-FM stereo, turntable, and 8-track all in one unit that my parents gave me a year or two before then.
It came with some equally cheap speakers. As a high school project I built a pair of 2-way speakers using woofers and tweeters from McGee Radio in Kansas City. These were much better even though the drivers were also cheap. I must have kept the all-in-one until I bought that Sherwood S-8900A in the early 1980s in a junk store for $5, not working. I kept the DIY speakers until I bought a pair of BIC Venturi towers at a yard sale some years later. Then I thought I really had a great setup...and I guess I did for a second hand system. By then (early 1990s) I had traded a radio for a Technics SL-D3 turntable, and together with a cassette deck bought new, I was set for awhile. The Sherwood died sometime in the early-mid 90s and was replaced by a new Pioneer purchased at Worst Buy. By then most receivers had become BPC, nothing to really be proud of like the older receivers were.
I said all that to say this...I was just thinking that the only pair of speakers I ever bought new were a set of Auvios from Radio Shack four or five years ago, upon the recommendation of Peter Balaszy (who is on the other forum). They are small but are 3-way units that sound very good. Of course now that I have discovered Bozak, no other speaker will do for me. I have the E-300s in my home office and a set of Urbans in the living room.
Okay, enough rambling for now.
In 1977, I was about to graduate high school...would start working in radio the following year at a nickel above minimum wage which was...what? Around $2.15 an hour or so in '78. On that salary no kid could afford a $400 receiver. I made do with a cheap Sears (or was it J.C. Penney?) all in one table unit which had AM-FM stereo, turntable, and 8-track all in one unit that my parents gave me a year or two before then.
It came with some equally cheap speakers. As a high school project I built a pair of 2-way speakers using woofers and tweeters from McGee Radio in Kansas City. These were much better even though the drivers were also cheap. I must have kept the all-in-one until I bought that Sherwood S-8900A in the early 1980s in a junk store for $5, not working. I kept the DIY speakers until I bought a pair of BIC Venturi towers at a yard sale some years later. Then I thought I really had a great setup...and I guess I did for a second hand system. By then (early 1990s) I had traded a radio for a Technics SL-D3 turntable, and together with a cassette deck bought new, I was set for awhile. The Sherwood died sometime in the early-mid 90s and was replaced by a new Pioneer purchased at Worst Buy. By then most receivers had become BPC, nothing to really be proud of like the older receivers were.
I said all that to say this...I was just thinking that the only pair of speakers I ever bought new were a set of Auvios from Radio Shack four or five years ago, upon the recommendation of Peter Balaszy (who is on the other forum). They are small but are 3-way units that sound very good. Of course now that I have discovered Bozak, no other speaker will do for me. I have the E-300s in my home office and a set of Urbans in the living room.
Okay, enough rambling for now.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
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