What Was Your HiFi in 1980?

[robbyd]

Didn't have one, but a year later it would have been:

Rega 3/ FR101se
NAD 3020
Kef Coda 2s

 

[Ellenor]

Dunno. The age I was it was probably one of those Fisher Price record decks

 

[Tiernoise]

I was 7 in 1980 and was given a small Philips N2208 portable cassette recorder for my birthday that year. I recorded many of my first 'mixtapes' using the Philips' electret mic and a small portable MW radio I borrowed. Great times!

My dad had a typical Belgian system from 1978, of those that were available at independant hifi and TV shops here in those days:
Sanyo DCA 1001A amp, FMT 1001A tuner, RD-5055 cassette deck, Sanyo TP-1020 record player, and some Belgian hifi loudspeakers.

 

[SteveS1]

Rega 3/Rega R100
NAD 3020
Wharfedale Teesdales.

 

[seyles]

An Amstrad RP-10 record player. The later "audiophile" version below, not the daft one with the disco lights in the lid.

That’s what I was using in 1980 (9 years old); the disco version, it was awesome.

 

[Joolzdee]

A Ferguson Studio 40D music centre.
My Dad, not a big music lover, surprised my brother and me by suddenly deciding to spend £99.99 at Rumbleows in the January sale.
The 13 year old me was beyond excited. I could play my small collection of punk, new wave and increasingly metal singles and the few LP's I'd managed to afford.
Plus I could tape John Peel and the Friday Rock Show. And I could tape borrowed albums from mates.
It was pretty much the best thing in my life and didn't sound half bad either.

 

[Dave Cattlin]

IIRC

Sony PSX-60 or Heybrook TT2 (both around then)
NAD 3020
AR18s
Big Sharp tape deck

 

[James]

It was around 1980 that I changed my hifi completely. But I started with a Yamaha combo based around a CR-420 receiver, an integrated-into-cabinet non-descript TT and a pair of oversized and under-endowed loudspeakers. To that, I added a Teac A-103 cassette deck.

Good times!

 

[rhgbristol]

Garrard GT255AP turntable
Ortofon FF15EO cartridge
Rotel RA500 amplifier
Scott T216 tuner
Sharp RT10E cassette deck
Mission 700 loudspeakers

 

[Amber Audio]

Aged 15 in 1980.

Ariston RD80SL/LVV/K9 or AT MM​

Technics RS-M205 cassette deck​

Rogers A75 Mk2 amp​

Rogers T75 Mk2 tuner​

Heybrook HB2 on matching open frame stands. Think I was using shot firing wire the old man got from the pit then QED 79 after a HiFi Answers article, bit vague after all these years.​

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[Jason P]

1980 - my mum and dad's system which comprised of a Garrard SP25, unknown cart, Eagle receiver and matching speakers with bell-wire leads. I would position the speakers either side of the french doors and lie on the floor between them, as I discovered that way I got a sense of imaging - stuff happened between the speakers. I would play my brothers albums (Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Sparks) as my parent's tastes were Readers Digest compilations and film scores...

 

[Undarra]

Ariston turntable
NAD 3020
AR18bx
Saved up a lot of paper round money for that lot and loved it.

 

[Undarra]

Sorry read the title as the 1980s not 1980!

 

[TheDecameron]

The following year:
Dual CS505 with Nagaoka MP11 cart
Pioneer SX757 Receiver
Castle Tyne Speakers

 

[JezmondTutu]

At 12:

JVC QLA51 turntable - average
Boots receiver - goodness knows who made that!
Some small Goodmans speakers

Valhalla arrived three years later courtesy of Sysyemdek, Akai, Creek and B&W.

 

[Hooch500]

Goodmans 110, Rotel RP3000, leak 2060.

 

[Beobloke]

That’s what I was using in 1980 (9 years old); the disco version, it was awesome.

Yeah, OK. I’m officially jealous!!

 

[seyles]

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Very Braun looking, love it.

 

[wd40addict]

At 12:

JVC QLA51 turntable - average
Boots receiver - goodness knows who made that!
Some small Goodmans speakers

Valhalla arrived three years later courtesy of Sysyemdek, Akai, Creek and B&W.

Possibly Aiwa, they used to produce some stuff for sale under the Boots brand.

 

[Peter from Sleaford]

Rega 2 with Nagoka MP11 Boron
Arcam Alpha amp
Heybrook HB1's