Not the famous musical. My stereo system, finally functioning again. The 1980’s super high fidelity amplifier replacement for my defunct one I found on ebay arrived yesterday, massively swaddled in bubble wrap and multiple boxes, as it so richly deserved, and functions perfectly.
It had an upgrade kit installed at one time, hard to say when, and there were two of these identically upgraded stereo amps that had been purchased by the ebay seller from a defunct sound studio. This is so much better than buying one from some private seller who probably treated his the same way I did mine, which of course resulted in my needing a replacement.
I lived way the hell out in the remote mountain forest and I could blast the music and literally make the house shake. That’s kinda hard on speakers. I have no house shaking plans with this one.
Anyway… I still have the original matching pre-amp and FM tuner, both made by the same company that built the amp so all are very high fidelity and very low distortion, and everything was hooked together with the new speakers yesterday for my listening pleasure, which was considerable last night as I leaned back in the recliner with my cat on my lap, a rare event, she almost never does that, while the magical sounds of Gabor Szabo, Ray Lynch and Ravi Shankar took their turns delivering some of the world’s finest music to my welcoming ears.
Now I have the two old, very tall and very heavy exotic speaker arrays that I’m thinking of rebuilding. Speaker technology has changed considerably in 45 years, so this will take some research. Their sound when new was incomparable, though. I listened to the very best available at the time regardless of price, and nothing even matched these. We’ll see.