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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
Most school age children only had simple kiddie record players. Manual turntables and one tube or low power solid state amplifiers. When they got a little older, maybe they got an inexpensive portable stereo, such as the GE offerings.
The schools had equipment specified by the school board and were usually a lot more expensive than the consumer models. The amplifiers had to be a lot more powerful, for large areas.  |
I had better than the schools did when I was 9 years old, and began my first broadcast job. I had a Dynakit Stereo 70 power amplifier, a Dynakit PAS 3-X Stereo preamplifier, A HH ScottKit LT 112-B FM tuner, an AR XA turntable with Shure M 75 EJ cartridge, and a pair of Dynaco A 25 loudspeakers. My first broadcast station paycheck paid for this working part time, I was a substitute announcer, assistant to the chief engineer (who specialized then in studio equipment maintenance on AM/FM equipment and did transmitters when necessary).