Hi-Fi

[GGJaguar]

Is that a 3-track reel-to-reel?

 

[FNG]

I bet that rocked!

That's a big bowl of smokes!

 

[Uke]

Never took old blue eyes for a Buddhist sort of fellow

 

[Rocky]

That's a big bowl of smokes!

Gotta have all your friends' favorite brands!

 

[Midnight Toker]

Is that a 3-track reel-to-reel?

One amp per speaker....likely all mono.

 

[Guildedagain]

I bet that rocked!

That's a big bowl of smokes!

Was wondering what the snacks were ;[]

 

[walrus]

Cool photo!

FYI, recommended reading. Two volume biography by James Kaplan. "The Voice" and "The Chairman".

walrus

 

[jp]

Fun! Thanks for posting GG. Those speakers are as big as Fender 8 x 10 cabs! For those who wanna geek out, I found this listing of the gear. It seems to refer to the same system.

Frank Sinatra's Classic Hi-Fi System

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, America was producing some of the world’s best-sounding hi-fi gear by famous brands like Marantz, McIntosh, Fisher, Eico, Scott, Acoustic Resarch, and Altec-Lansing. Then…

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• Amplification: Console furniture with built-in components was quite common back in the day, so we can’t say what brand they are. I’m told that the three amplifier units down below might be Scott amps.
• Preamplifier: McIntosh C-22 (pictured on top)
• AM/FM Tuner: Fisher R-200 tube tuner
• Loudspeakers: Either Altec-Lansing or JBL (James B. Lansing), but they look like they could also be other hi-fi classic models of the day by Klipsch, Jensen, or Tannoy.
• Turntable: Garrard or Reko-Cut in one photo; the other photo has the turntable inside the cabinet under the Fisher tuner.
• Reel-to-Reel Tape Deck: Correction: Not a 350 series Ampex 3-track tube tape machine; rather, it is a Presto 825 3 box/3 channel deck. Thank you Bob Donnelly for that 411. Also thanks to George Little for telling us The three units below the tuner and preamp the power supplies for the Presto tape unit amps.