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What music reproduction equipment did your parents / guardian have and did it make a long lasting impression on you ?

I don't remember what make of stereo we had. All I remember is wasn't very tall hut was very long or seemed very long for a five year old. This was the late 70's. It had a record player and with speakers at each end.

After searching the Internet I think I have found it . HMV 2353 stereogram. Seeing this has brought back all sorts of memories like The Wurzels, ABBA, Cliff Richard, The Bay Citg Rollers

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Yep, we had a radiogram. Stack the singles up, on the arm. Not as posh as that one, though.
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We weren't posh Paul :lol: This was the third world (aka Yorkshire) in the 1970's.
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My Mother has had a wind up gramophone for well over 60 years with some 78 rpm records. Later about 1964/5 I was bought a mono record player one of my first records was the single of Summer Holiday, an early LP was Beethoven’s Symphony nr 5. I think I still have that one.

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We were posh, Garrard 301, Decca FFSS arm & several FFSS carts (I gather they were found / acquired at the BBC), Akai 8 track, a German Dual receiver and a pair of chipboard based Jordan Watt speakers. In the late 70s (1977) the speakers were replaced with a pair of spanking new Ditton 662’s which arrived in the back of a BBC enterprise lorry along with a Sony tape recorder player suitable for Outside Broadcast use.
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My parents got a radiogram in the mid/late 60s. Seem to recall they won it as a prize and it was made in Poland. I thought it sounded great, certainly better than a record player they later bought me. The radiogram served me well until I had a stereo record player for Christmas in 74. Fond memories.
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Like Geoff, I started out listening to a wind-up gramophone, with records by the likes of Gigli, and Stanley Holloway. Next came the radiogram, followed by something a bit like this. In fact, the more I look at it the more convinced I am that it actually was one of these: a Fidelity Music Master.

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My parents had a Pye 'Black Box' from the mid-1950's. They weren't great music listeners and I appropriated it as my first record player.
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My parents’ KB Junior radiogram. BSR UA8 turntable and LW/MW/VHF radio. Single-ended pentode output courtesy of an EL84.
This thing made me aware of music from an early age, playing Ted Heath and His Music, Jack Parnell etc 78s.
It then moved onto The Shadows, then The Beatles, Stones Tamla Motown, played by our babysitters when mum and dad were down the pub.
Then we were onto T Rex, Slade, Alice Cooper, Bowie, Roxy Music etc. I wired an extension speaker out through the downstairs window and into my bedroom window directly above, so could pipe music into my room from downstairs whilst mum and dad watched TV. There was a little knurled screw round the back to turn off the main speaker when the extension speaker was being used.
The mains transformer burned out in 1972 and my dad went out and bought a solid state HMV stereogram, which sounded frankly crap compared to this venerable old valve classic.
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I remember those day's, with Saturday Morning pictures at the Odeon in Hornchurch, the walking up and down the car park for odd lost pennies.
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