Originally Posted by
bigbossman
Was it this?:
Pioneer SX-1980, 270W/channel. It was the pinnacle of the Pioneer line, and their crowning achievement in the development of monster receivers. At the time it was introduced in 1978, it was the most powerful receiver in the world.
It was their best effort, and cost $1,295 MSRP. My first car in 1974 cost $300.
I remember there being tons of competition at a time when underpowered receivers did some major damage to speakers.
I chose Pioneer's SX-780 because of the toggles and the tuning smoothness. If I remember, Sears Audio by Fisher was selling, by volume, more than many of the individual makers. Major warfare was going on between Sansui, Pioneer, Marantz, and others. There were about a dozen "names" vying for the audio dollar, and some of the ads in magazines like Omni, etc were stunning.
The midwest had a mall audio franchise called Playback, and it was my #1 destination at any mall that had one.
Milwaukee had a record store called Radio Doctor.
You could walk in there not knowing the song, album, or artist, and if you knew a few lines, they'd find it for you.
They did so, for me, on leave from boot camp in Jan, 1978, and I still have the album. (Burton Cummings, "My Own Way to Rock")
To this day, I do not watch music videos, in general. I just don't see the point.
I mow my grass with AR's wireless headphones, the big ones.
Mainly because my Koss wireless headphones, the really big ones (IR line of sight) wore out.
Earbuds? no. Buds are for riding with or drinking. The exception being Rosebud.