This was a completely over the top restore & for one reason..............!!
This was my teen years stereo from 1982 to early 1984 & I loved it!!
Walked into Curry's (A UK High Street Retailer) & handed over £85 exactly which was the exact price (No £84.99 here) very unusual but very vivid memories of it pissing down with rain & dark, the welcoming brightly lit shop & the excitement of getting my first half decent stereo radio recorder still lingers with me all these years later..........& proudly running home to my dingy run down accommodation as I had left home by then due to issues we cannot divulge here!
Stopped along the way to buy the latest Kool & The Gang - Something Special album on tape too!!
Soon had her up & running & was very surprised how good it was back then!
A somewhat scarce generic model, I have seen a Watson RR-572 which is identical just cosmetic changes & another obscure brand I just can't remember now...............
My Triumph Srr-5000 went everywhere I went always loaded up with 8 'D' cell batteries & often blasting the current top 40! lol - I still have cassettes recorded on my original machine that survive perfectly & play well!
Now onto the present day:
Over the last 5 years I have bought 4 of these, all promising good condition/working etc, we all know the real score here of course
None were too clever & only through carelessness & misuse, I was going to give up when I found one just last week, not working but it had a good casing & nice straight speaker grilles - No problem I thought, gut them all out clean the casing in warm soapy water, re-spray the 4 speaker grilles & use my already serviced deck that I had saved should this day ever arrive!
Both of the 2 scrappers I had kept had very cloudy tuning glass panels, & I mean beyond saving cloudy, so it was lucky that the new arrival was good.........
These are built very well with a decent tape deck, Dolby NR & nice led meters along with manual recording control, a decent 4 band tuner & real woofers & separate tweeters - No wonder I was so happy as a stereo crazy teenager
Everything pluggable & therefore easily interchangeable, it was a case of making the best out of what I had & a day later we have a stunning example of what was to be a major part of my life at that very impressionable time of my life - I could never have asked for more than what I now have...........& it works & performs exactly as I remember it did in 1982!!
I always loved the so silvery look of this model & it was the only really decent radio recorder sold under the Triumph brand - I know as I own all the other not so good ones
& there were a few!! None of them that Mickey Mouse but none with a good stereo Dolby deck & all pressed steel no market quality deck in here!!
A few more machines to sort out yet, but for now I am really happy to have my teenage stereo back with me & all those memories..........
Et Viola!!
https://youtu.be/wGFyNXQYVzs
This was my teen years stereo from 1982 to early 1984 & I loved it!!
Walked into Curry's (A UK High Street Retailer) & handed over £85 exactly which was the exact price (No £84.99 here) very unusual but very vivid memories of it pissing down with rain & dark, the welcoming brightly lit shop & the excitement of getting my first half decent stereo radio recorder still lingers with me all these years later..........& proudly running home to my dingy run down accommodation as I had left home by then due to issues we cannot divulge here!
Stopped along the way to buy the latest Kool & The Gang - Something Special album on tape too!!
Soon had her up & running & was very surprised how good it was back then!
A somewhat scarce generic model, I have seen a Watson RR-572 which is identical just cosmetic changes & another obscure brand I just can't remember now...............
My Triumph Srr-5000 went everywhere I went always loaded up with 8 'D' cell batteries & often blasting the current top 40! lol - I still have cassettes recorded on my original machine that survive perfectly & play well!
Now onto the present day:
Over the last 5 years I have bought 4 of these, all promising good condition/working etc, we all know the real score here of course
None were too clever & only through carelessness & misuse, I was going to give up when I found one just last week, not working but it had a good casing & nice straight speaker grilles - No problem I thought, gut them all out clean the casing in warm soapy water, re-spray the 4 speaker grilles & use my already serviced deck that I had saved should this day ever arrive!
Both of the 2 scrappers I had kept had very cloudy tuning glass panels, & I mean beyond saving cloudy, so it was lucky that the new arrival was good.........
These are built very well with a decent tape deck, Dolby NR & nice led meters along with manual recording control, a decent 4 band tuner & real woofers & separate tweeters - No wonder I was so happy as a stereo crazy teenager
Everything pluggable & therefore easily interchangeable, it was a case of making the best out of what I had & a day later we have a stunning example of what was to be a major part of my life at that very impressionable time of my life - I could never have asked for more than what I now have...........& it works & performs exactly as I remember it did in 1982!!
I always loved the so silvery look of this model & it was the only really decent radio recorder sold under the Triumph brand - I know as I own all the other not so good ones
A few more machines to sort out yet, but for now I am really happy to have my teenage stereo back with me & all those memories..........
Et Viola!!
https://youtu.be/wGFyNXQYVzs
