Vintage HiFi Audio Forum
General Banter => Welcome Wagon => Topic started by: makatak on November 25, 2011, 11:05:26 PM
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Kevin from Plum here. Been outa the audio scene for too long, yearning to treat my bad ears to some fine audio again.
Back in the day I worked at Ovation Audio in East Liberty, fixin whatever the customers blew up. But that was a part time gig, my day job was building war toys. I did get my Maggies there. But they are long gone.
Looking to restore my Tandberg TR-2075, TCD-330 tape deck, and Thorens TD 126 MkII turntable w/Infinity Black Widow arm. I have no idea what this stuff is worth these days. I brought it all with me from Germany.
Anyone who has worked on the receiver is invited to chime in with advice!
Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving!
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Hi Kevin and welcome. Those are wonderful pieces and should sound as good as ever with a bit of TLC. I use to have a Tandberg TR 1055 and a Thorens TD 125 MK II with an SME arm and wish I could have them back. Tom and Anders at Vintage HiFI can fix anything if a restoration is in order.
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Welcome!!! That black widow arm was a hot piece back when I was in college. Post some pics of your equipment. 8)
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Welcome!!
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Welcome to the group Kevin.
Ron
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willkommen im Forum. Es klingt wie Sie ein paar nette Deutsch Getriebe haben
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Welcome to the forum!
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Welcome to the forum.
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Welcome to the funny farm! ???
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Welcome to the forum!
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Hello Kevin,
Ovation Audio was one of the few places I didn't work for.
I still have most of the audio stuff I bought.
If you need any help restoring your stuff just let me know.
Anders
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Welcome, and not to be redundant, but yes, Tom and Anders are a wealth of information :)
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Welcome to the club!
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Welcome to another easterner! :)
I live in Penn Hills...
George
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I appreciate all the kind welcomes to the club!
I plan on a pilgrimage to Babcock Blvd in the near future, bringing my receiver along.
Does anyone know what became of Tasso Spanos? He used to own the Opus One audio store on Smithfield Street. I was exposed to high end audio there for the first time.
I found this little blurb about him.
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue16/advent.htm (http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue16/advent.htm)
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Tasso delivered my Acoustat X's years ago and when he saw my room with all the electronics in it he hired me on the spot.
It was fun working for Opus One while it lasted.
Tasso now has a pain clinic but he still dabbles in audio but just a bit here and there.
I do have his phone number.
Anders
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Last I remember... He started a "pain relief clinic" on the South Side of Pittsburgh... Guessing that was in the mid 90's or so...
Did a quick google search and a few blurbs about him and "pain relief" during 2011, so I guess that is what he is still doing...
HTH,
George
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I talked with Tasso few months ago. He runs an add in the paper occasionally listing used, vintage equipment. His clinic is on Carson St and I think that's where he keeps his vintage gear, but the hours are limited. Did Tasso also have a store in East Liberty in the late 1970s/early 80s? If it wasn't his, that place was another amazing audio experience. I first heard both real digital and surround sound there and remember it like the article described Tassos and his store Downtown.
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Mac, "that" place in E Sliberty was Ovation Audio, where I worked for a spell back in the late 70's. The listening room was uncoupled from the building structure. My job was set up and tuning systems, and repairing the stream of blown up Mark Levinson amps that arrived weekly.
I don't remember the owners names.
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At one of the last audio jobs I had i got to know people and they still look for me to repair and upgrade their stuff as very few people are left doing it today.
Anders
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Ovation-that was the place. I moved to the Burgh in late 1979 and would have been there in 1980. Whatever I was listening too back then sounded (at least in my memory) as good as anything today.
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I was just doing a web search for Ovation and came across this thread. It's been a while, but those were fun times. The owner of Ovation was Dave Felzer if memory serves - I worked there for a few months in the late 70's. The store supported his love of expensive audio. I remember spending hours selecting just the right capacitance leads for the head shell and just the right angle of the cartridge so that the horns (in the audio source) would image correctly on the Watson Model 10's (the ones with bags of sulfur hexaflouride gas in the base cabinet so the ceramic flat plate woofers would be more linear). And listening to a two mic recording playing through a Scheiber 360 Degree Spacial Decoder and hearing someone breathing and rustling papers behind me while I faced the front speakers - scared the crap out of me, but what a demonstration of extracting ambient info from stereo. Damn I loved playing with that stuff as much as Dave did.
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Welcome DBPE