I FOUND A MASSIVE VINTAGE HIFI COLLECTION IN A SMALL TOWN
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I discovered a collection of vintage hifi & vintage audio in a small town in Pennsylvania that took over 50 years to build. It was located in a store called The Turntable Store. The owner Max has been in the hifi business since the 1970s! Check out one of the coolest vintage stereo stores in the country, and one of my new favorite vintage audio friends Max!
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Best video I’ve seen in forever! Thank you! I will visit in the next couple of days!
Have fun! Tell them I said hi!
This is essentially a vintage audio museum.
In 1988 I sold hi fi for a living. I was bad at sales, but I loved the stuff. All these years later I still love the stuff. Fun video!
Mind blown. I love that this place exists!
Love those kind of places! Just gave me an itch to buy something. Thanks Lenny!
Anytime! Glad you enjoyed it!
I hate them pretty sure my head would explode in there 🤯😂❤❤
@@LennyFlorentinethat’s the thing about The Vintage once you learn more about them. We want all of them. Back in the in the 70’s as a young man many of us were biased towards other brands because of sheer ignorance and exposure to real audiophile culture. Thank goodness for Social Media now I know there’s more out there than Pioneer, Marantz, Sansui, Kenwood, Technics, Onkyo, Sony and McIntosh ❤
Yes, and it gave me an itch to hook up components I have which have just been sitting around for years. Wow!
I own a Rotel 1412. Battleship of an amp.
Just flicking the switches on high hi end 1970's is an experience. 😊😊😊😊😊
I agree! Nice receiver, it’s a keeper for sure!
@@LennyFlorentine I never let my collection get to quite that stage but when I turned 60 I sold everything I had except for the first electronic component I bought from my from my first job aged 17 and it is a Marantz 2210 and I still have the receipt, owners manual, packing and original factory box and it still runs and has never been re capped nor toughed in any way. LOL Cheers.
No bluetooth, no Mp3, just real vintage HiFi. Love it, this is like being in a movie „once upon a time….“. Greetings from Switzerland. ❤
I live about 25 minutes away from this store, and go there often. As much as I like digging for my own vintage gear, and repairing it myself. It is nice to go and demo equipment/speakers before buying. Max is a nice guy, i like supporting his place!
That’s an insane collection
It was amazing! Can’t wait to go back!
This is one of best stores I could easily spend entire day here. Thank you so much!
That's a great store, and the gear looks in very good condition.
That rare Revox cassette deck is quite something, and I bet this publicity will lead to its quick sale.
Maybe not with an asking price of $1800.00.
Great store!!!Unfortunately we dont have places like this in Greece!!!You are very lucky Lenny!!
Hello Captain Sub: Thank you for this video. You really landed a gold mine when you found this audio store. I loved this video emeensly. Thank you again & stay safe, your loyal customer/ subscriber, TMP from N.J.
Really cool store. Worth a trip to Manheim
They have a local restaurant with some good whiskey as well!
Great video. Love to see other audiophiles collections. Awesome
Man I'd love to have a 10 minute shopping spree in that place.Walking through those doors is like walking through the pearly gates. it's audio heaven.
Hi fi heaven❤
on the downside, what's the point? They are not used/ a waste. People with little budget are struggling to find functioning, inexpensive audio gear while there are warehouse-sized amounts of unused equipment collecting dust.
That's what people said about my propeller and moonshine jug collections.
Awesome video
Good point. I hear you."Life is hard", as Johnny Winter once said.But we can find inexpensive stuff with this guy here. And the older guys like myself can remember the good old hifi days (I'm retired and completely digital today). Peace.
Damn shame,people hide this stuff and let it rot on shelves us buyers never hear about..what a waste.
Just like the government warehouse at the end of Indiana Jones and the Lost ark LOL- or the warehouse in the Librarian movie
Those marble topped speakers are Empire Grenadiers. I repped those back in the day! My son has a pair. Very advanced design. No cabinet edge refraction like other boxes. Vertical alignment not staggered as was popular back then. Downward firing 15" woofer!
Great info Glenn! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful shop 💕 beautiful 💕 sound systems 💕
Sound Advance produced inwall versions of those Bertagni speakers. I install a bunch of them in high-end custom homes 30 years ago. Their styrofoam surface replaced gypsum board. The drywall contractor would mud them into their surrounding surfaces. They were designed strictly for background music. They didn't sound very good. Sound Advance later produced an equalizer to assist with the overall balance. Think of listening to Bose 901 speakers without their proprietary equalizer.
i live about 30 minutes from the store...bought my 70's era Yamaha turntable from there.Awesome place! Went down the cassette rabbithole so that will be my go to source!
Very cool! They have a lot of nice ones!
great collection , i strained my eyes looking for a sx 1010 but the 828 is nice also , really nice brick work on the building !
Funny to hear that the Philips cassette deck is rare in America. You saw them a lot here in the Netherlands. The 900 series was the best they sold here from Philips in the 90s. I also had such a system with a DCC 900 digital tape deck instead of a cassette deck.
Old philips models are really good .now a days all r china made.
Fun video Lenny. Thanks. I’d much rather deal with an independently owned store like this than big box or chain. I’d love to visit. 👍🏼😎🎶
Thanks so much Lenny for the tour of this awesome store... think I could wander in there all day.. if I'm in Pennsylvania I'll definitely check them out. More so for the music they have
Those Cassettes all over , the Cassettes from the 80s and 90s recorded on good Quality tapes, with proper Dolby can sound Dang Near as good as a CD with a High Quality Cassette Deck, I have a Pioneer CT-A9X completely gone through that Rocks Cassettes! Also have a nice Selection of Blank Sealed Cassettes and of Course your Awesome Pioneer SX1280 that shipped herein a Pallet!!
The Truck Driver couldn't believe it!
So come to Ft Wayne IN !
There are some Very Old Vinyl Shops etc around here!
Dave
I watched this video earlier today I was like OMG all that vintage gear. I drove by that store a couple of times and was curious but I never stopped in there to look around. So thank you very much for posting this.
You are welcome, and thanks for watching!
WOW! My wife is glad this store is NOT in Little Rock Arkansas LOL! Loved the tour.
Foam panel speakers with off the shelf exciters are very popular in DYI.
Wow 🤩 what a dream. Fantastic
Some nice stuff for sure.
It was a blast
Finally a place I know! (I sold him that Pioneer RTR.) Great people at The Turntable Store; I didn’t realize he had so much stock beyond what was on the floor.
Very cool!
You always tell the story about the the McIntosh 275 vs. the wife. I'm starting to think after these years listening to you telling that story that might be, just might be YO ARE THE HUSBAND hiding behind that tube amp's facelifting. Tell me the truth brother because the doubt is killing me. LOL - By the way, the Rotel integrated at the start of this video, I hear several times that not only that is a gorgeous piece but one of the most powerful best built amps of all time. Great vid . Much love as always from West Spain!!
Love seeing you back on the road again... where you belong... like an audiophile Jack Kerouac... with a Billy Gibbons beard!
When you order ZZ Top off of Wish…
Great video Lenny! Your camera works fine. Not sure how long ago you filmed this but I checked out his website because I'm sure I spotted at least 1 pair of Small Advents and they're not listed. Pretty sure I saw a set of NHT 2.9's behind those transducer speakers he set up for you. Those are my Holy Grail but I'm guessing they'd be too expensive to ship. I'm kind of glad I don't live anywhere near this place. lol
P.S. Get a fitted hat...you deserve it.
Thank you! Put it out the day after I filmed it so everything is probably still there. Thanks for the recommendation but I can never do the fitted haha. You should give them a visit!
A few years ago i visited a music store in a small town that used to be a Radio Shack. I asked if they had any vacuum tubes and the clerk said I think there are still some in the basement. He took me to a storage room that had literally thousands of NOS, US made, vacuum tubes! I spent a couple hours looking for guitar amp tubes I could use, but found none of those. Don't know what happened to the stash - I hope they weren't trashed!
Would love more detail on that! I’d be hunting for RadioShack artifacts
Great vlog love the chat about stuff, a lot of helpful comments 👍👍👍👍👏
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for contributing to them!
I was able to acquire the Mitsubishi Meters for that amp for $25 a long time ago. But they are the analog one. One of my favorite pieces.
That is a great piece!
Great place to go! I’d love to visit there.
Great video Lenny! I live in Norristown Pa so Manheim isn't a hard reach for me. Thanks!
Awesome Tom thank you!
Geez ,, Incredible..
Wow what a collection!
😍 Gawd dang! Component heaven. The Sony ES cassette! 😘 That Phillips cassette deck design can be seen in the movie Contact. They use a Phillips receiver and some jbls (?) to play back the signal. Such nice stuff. Thanks!
The end of that movie as a kid gave me nightmares with those backwards legs haha
Thanks so much for this beautiful clip !
This channel is a baby-boomer's heaven 🎉
thanks a lot, man!
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you!
Great Stop. thank you.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!
I still have a large collection of vintage Hi-Fi but not on this scale.
Now that i have retired from consumer electronics i can spend time
refurbishing the ones that were bought as spares or repair.
Vintage gear was bulit to last, todays gear is designed to disposable.
That’s fun! Thanks for sharing!
Love these videos keep finding cool places excellent video
Super cool!
Best vid. Ive got my mini collection it makes me feel good to see Im not the only one with a small obsession.
That’s awesome! Make sure to share it sometime!
For me..HEAVEN!!!
What a fantastic life you lead. Great video.
Great video, what a place. It isn't exactly vintage audio but you were close to a legendary concert sound and video company, Clair Global.
They started out as Clair Brothers in Lititz Pa just to the east of Manheim. They now have locations all over the world. Some cool things are hidden in the corn fields of Pennsylvania.
OMG - I have to visit this store. Talk about a kid in a candy shop. All very tempting but, I think I'll keep my NAD 7220PE.
You should!!
Lots of goodies and treasures in there. Styrofoam speakers! I should get some transducers from Parts-Express and build a set just for sheer curiosity! Oh my mom had one of those Sharp Radio cassette players exactly like that except it was blue! I took it apart when I was young... and that is how I started my interest in audio!
This place is audio heaven...... o my YOU making me cry 😭 Man
at around the 14:30 or so mark, you said 'point out what I missed'. In the middle of the room there looked to be a pair of NHT 2.9, which was a powerhouse speaker in the mid-90s. Could have been the lesser 2.5, though, but that's still a good speaker, too.
Astonishing !!! Let the good old times Roll !!!
Very cool vintage audio and vinyl shop! Just purchased a mint George Harrison album. Enjoyed the video very much. Was fun!
Looks like you walked by a pair of NHT2.9 speakers. Great speakers! ❤
I'm in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and there is nothing around here that I know of. But 20 miles south in Winchester VA there is a place called Ear Food, and they deal with a bit of every thing. Not as nice or as cool as this place in this video, but still pretty cool.
Added to the list of record stores to visit!
27:40 ELO afterglow album.. all b sides and unreleased Elo songs. a must have for collectors
Wow. I can't believe this. I sold a lot of that product that you call.Vintage hi fi 😂😂 I even recognize the brands, the boxes, and even some of a the model numbers 😂
You skipped right over that beautiful gold Pilot tube amp! They sound great 9:48
23:11 . . . I have exactly the same Schaub !! Many German receivers had this style in the 1970s, with the multi band tuners. Very good performance, even though all connectors, including speakers are DIN.
Regarding the flat speakers, there are totally flat 1" depth membrane speakers which are in a rectangular plastic housing and weatherproof which were made in the 1970s called _Magitran Poly-Sonic._ They have astounding sound quality, since the panel projects the sound 360 degrees. They are only about 25 watts RMS, but the bass is quite surprising.
Really love these diff.kinds ok amplifiers.,cd, dvds player
Man, i gotta vist there someday.
I go in there all the time.
That’s awesome! I was very excited to finally get to visit, and was not disappointed!!
ITT Schaub-Lorenz was a German manufacturer of electrical engineering based in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.
The company was part of the American conglomerate International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (ITT) and was created through the merger of C. Lorenz AG with Standard Elektrik AG. Its product range included telephones, teleprinters, fax machines, radio equipment, and information technology. For private customers, the company primarily produced consumer electronics under the brand "Schaub-Lorenz," and from 1961 also under the brand "Graetz" after acquiring the company of the same name. A significant portion of the business, however, was in the area of government contracts. In addition to communications equipment for the Deutsche Bundespost or for equipping government agencies and the Bundeswehr, Standard Elektrik Lorenz developed and produced signaling, control, and safety technology for rail transport, as well as aerospace technology. 👍
Wow thank you for sharing all that info! I was hoping to get an answer like this!
@@LennyFlorentine You're very welcome. Growing up in Austria, we used to see many products from Schaub-Lorenz in the 70's, which were regarded as well built, high quality components. They produced TVs, cassette recorders, radios, hifi-equipment and even speakers.
Very cool! 👍👍
Schaub Lorenz was a German company that made tube radios and other things. I have an AM tube radio from them and still working.
Nice store, pity for me is on the other side of the Atlantic.😁😁😁
Thanks for the info!
Outstanding information mate!
@@LennyFlorentine You welcome. Thank you for your nice videos.
@@bertram3814 Thanks😅
You should make a Philips 900 series video. It was mind blowing back in the 90s.
Should show her cleaning process! Great show again.
Thanks
Wow vintage hifi❤❤❤
Cool place... Got my eye on the dbx box....
11:08 those are BES Bertagni ...... I had those. They were pretty good speakers but just dont have the oomph that I like from traditional woofers.
I have a mid 70's Onkyo TX 4500 and mom uses my Onkyo TX 2500 mkII in her painting studio in the house-she loves it.(she's 92, the Onk was 30 bucks.) I also have a 1983 Honda CX 650c and owned a 1968 Triumph Bonneville 40 yrs. ago. The point is, would you rather have a garage full of old motorcycles or a room full of old stereos. I'd take the bikes. All you need is a TX 4500....it does it all. Channel A is studio monitors. B is video monitors. C lights up the garage speakers outside the studio , where the bike is...and there's enough wire to go outside. That's all you need. A good 'ol bike and a good 'ol stereo.(and a studio in yer garage) Not rich by any means. But I've got the schnizz.
Thanks for sharing!
@@LennyFlorentine Thanks. There's YooToobers making the grass look greener all over the world. It finally hit me ;.... my grass aint so bad. In fact, it rocks.(I'm in Colorado 10 miles from the mountains....when I get done minting out the bike, up i go.) But home, is the big Onkyo,in the studio( Selcuk Celebi , Y tuber in Turkey, knows about my studio -you can see his futuristic vision of my studio on his site) ......seriously, ...can't we all just get along ?
Wish we had something like this here near Galveston Texas although from a financial point of view it's probably best there isn't
Man,what a Candy store!!🍬🍫🍭
Yo tuve 2 veces el bose 551 spatial control receiver, es un excelente equipo poco conocido.
Saludos desde ensenada México!.
Check out a place in Cartersville Ga.
Ate Tracks, it’s a restaurant filled with vintage Hifi!
Added to the list!
Those speaker on the floor you don't recognize look like BES, Bertagni "planar" speakers... basically some resonators stuck to a slab of styrofoam and a piezo tweeter for the treble. They look cool but were regarded as dreadful sounding by many audiophiles. Those massive towers look like the astonishingly accurate Dunlavy speakers from the 90s... designed almost exclusively by measurement.
10:42 you danced around the yamaha CR-2020 there, then missed it :(
superb ......
Amazing
Most fun I had in audio sales were the reps coming to demonstrate the new gear and throwing us some bling, selling gear to us at cost plus ten and buying us lunch. The very best invited us to parties; musicians, producers and many substances.....
Yamaha made keyboard amp/speakers out of that white styrofoam.. in the weird square shape with a corner missing..
I believe they have the "Elephant Speakers" nickname :)
my hometown is small and lot´s of people have hi-fi colections and music also maybe the reason why is that in a small town you need to get your time ocupied or hard drugs will be next in line as i did since my 16 birthday till i made 50, now 20 years clean and no health issue but smoke like a horse mainly at weekends and 50 kg of weight i was 125 ,now 115 but till i was 50 ,73 kg at the most and i´m 1.81 and was always doing some sport, only stoped when i was almost 40 i needed to run 8 kms everyday and sometimes i took at least 3 cigars or after a afternoon of smoking coke and heroin, those were the days
Congrats on 20 Years!!!!
@@LennyFlorentine thank you! my luck is that drugs disapeared , i know the services from the state to help the drug adict and a psicologist tells me they have 200 persons in treatment with buprenorfina and ...never took it so i can´t remenber but it´s the most used substance to substitute heroin and alcohol around the world ,but she tells me that all adicts when doing the mandatory blood analyses no cocaine a or heroine was found in their blood and what are they consuming ?well i met a lot of people and after mid 90´s no real drugs are found and i used to travel 400kms into Spain to a very rough neighborhood and there because we always bought big amounts of both heroin and cocaine they would come in their cars to get us from a industrial park where we could park our cars along with the workers of a factory and there non cars were broke into be stolen or just vandalised , but there we could find the most higher levels of purity and all diferent origins drugs from south America or from the East, Pakistan, Afeganistan, Tunisia, etc.maybe because of the wars, so i can´t go out and buy what i was used to and no real hard drugs are sold in reality, it´s a plus
You missed the NHT 2.5i speakers. I've owned them since 1999. They are the ones with off-axis fronts in black piano fisnis. I have the cherry wood finish.
I sure did! Thanks for adding that!
i still have in use a set of kenwood speakers ,huge ones bought in 1971 they have three ways and , i think they have four ways with a 60cm ,almost the doble area of a Lp record woofer giant one only 70 watts output(real ones) that with a Yamaha studio monitor ,horizontal one i get better frequency response and quality sound from a SA-9800 from pioneer, i used to have some HPM-100 but send them to be restored, i do this for a long time big speakers for the bass frequencies and a better sounding studio monitor on top for better mids and highs, those electrostatic speakers never atracted me the Quad brigade spent a lot on them in early 80´s but today all their systems look old and sound bad
Nice Kenny...
Thanks James!
@@LennyFlorentine you know those Styrofoam Speakers WERE A TRIP!
Do go and show West Virginia! Please! I want to see what I don't know. Thanks for all your great videos!
Hope I can go there,
just Beautiful 😍 treasures,because of the MUSIC 🎶Bose 901 are awesome. In Ireland i heard 201 Bose,they were awesome sounding,but beat up.
O wow!It`s place of power!
Wow, the 901's have a specific eq in the receivers!
"BES" was the brand name of the flat speakers.
It would be nice to make a Revox stack!