Down memory lane.....

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for some odd reason I had it pictured in my mind sitting on one of those One and a half width Target racks. Any one remember them? The Sondek and 72 would sit on the top shelf with the Hi-Cap and 250 on the bottom.

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Ah yess, I remember those days well Paul.

Too bad Target doesn't excist anymore, to make those racks again, like the one you mentioned.

I just scanned an old pic of such a rack from one of my favorite HiFi-magazines in the late eighties, 'NHS - New HiFi Sound'.



regards,
Alco

Alco

Wonderfull! Many thanks....cant quite recall New HiFi Sound but we had a "HiFi club" at work at the time and bought all the comics, HiFi Answers being the favourite mainly to read what insnity Jimmy Hughes was up to that month. When the equaly bonkers Peter Belt came along with his stickers and felt tip pens poor old J.H. went into overdrive and started putting amps and CD players in the freezer.... and you think the Mana Men odd, theve got nothing on this lot!!


Tom

Sound awfull it may have, but these were pioneering days dont forget, the previous generation of HiFi racks actually being made by Ercol and Hygena!

Paul

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Originally posted by alexgerrard:

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putting amps and CD players in the freezer

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Cool!

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Not quite, but I think this refers to a Belt tweak whereby you took and old photo of yourself, or something like that, and put it in the freezer compartment of the fridge and it made your system sound better????. This was, I think, the one tweak too far that broke Jimmy Hughes back, metaphorically speaking, and he stopped mentionong belts stuff on the realisation that belt was (alledgedly)certifiably insane. There may actually be a scientifically good reason to supercool components but old photos? Anyone got any more good anecdotes about Peter Belts strange world. Might make a good fun topic. Incidentally I recently found some of those foil square thingies you cut up and attached to water pipes etc, which was a freebie with HI FI Answers or some old Mag.

Yours in Music

Syd

One of Mr. Belts tweeks was to place your CD's in the freezer after which they would sound just wonderfull. This seem'd quite reasonable to our Jimmy and so not to be outdone in the fruitcake race put an amplifier and/or CD player into the freezer, wrapped in a plastic bag and with suitable warnings that electricity and water dont get on to well together, and then told all who would listen how fantastic this all sounded. Needless to say the effect didnt last forever so the process had to be repeated at regular intervals.

Please note I am not making this up. Dont beleive me? Take a deep breath and visit...

www.belt.demon.co.uk (how do you do the link thingy?)



Syd, I think your quite right about this being the straw that broke Jimmy Hughes back. He's probably locked up in the same padded room as his mentor.

Paul

Ahh as if by magic!

The whole 'belt' thing cured me of Hi-Fi magazines. I remember that one journalist was disappointed at the lack of improvement to his sound afer treating his whole house. The solution was to replace the untreated water in the pipes with statically improved water by flushing all the toilets. Ultimate insanity!

"The solution was to replace the untreated water in the pipes with statically improved water by flushing all the toilets. Ultimate insanity!"

I don't remember that one but it was fun to read. In those days it was the nearest thing we had to accounts of alien abductions.

Cheers

I wonder if you were to make a model TT complete with album and put a pin in the model album would you scratch the record on your real TT?
If I put a picture of the misses in the freezer. Would she sound better "of course you can have an 82/250"?

Howard