Remember Gateway.. turned into Summerfield, who in turn went into Coop i think. Green logos i think
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Remember Gateway.. turned into Summerfield, who in turn went into Coop i think. Green logos i think
First system when I was a student was a godawful stereo system, Rank by both name and nature. The first 'proper' system, once I'd moved to London with a proper job and a place of my own, was a BSR turntable left over from the Rank system, with an Empire cartridge, a Goodman's Module 90 tuner/amp, and a pair of Goodman's RB35 speakers. i've got photos of odd bits of the system; the Module 90 here, a corner of the RB35s there, but nothing of the whole system.
Not many students had a hi-fi where I was. One bloke had Goodmans, another Toshiba. The fanciest system anyone had was a Mission/Cyrus with the Mission CD player. He moved to Manchester and immediately got robbed. They took the lot. I thought they'd done him a favour as it was even worse than the Toshiba set up but I never said anything to him.
I vaguely knew someone at university who had an LP12 and Quad electrostatic speakers, but he was a friend of a friend, so I only heard the system a couple of times. I bought my own system with the proceeds of a holiday job with Merseyside Fire Brigade. Not putting out fires, of course.
[QUOTE=Joe;841790]I. I bought my own system with the proceeds of a holiday job with Merseyside Fire Brigade. [QUOTE]
I fiddled the dole, which was the other way of making money on Merseyside at the time. Unlike the government I made sure the taxpayers got value for their money though. :)
Ah forgot there were two blokes whose dads were into hi fi so they had their cast offs. Wharfedale and KEF speakers from the 'Seventies. One of them reckoned he had an LP12 but wouldn't bring it with him to college in case it got pinched. They did have pretty good-sounding systems. They were postgrads though so wasn't counting them.
Think it was Fine Fare before that Grant?
Hard to forget the naff yellow packaging!
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Yes, Dee bought it. Finefare was big in its day. Safeway sainsbury tesco etc muscled it( summerfield) out. Coop picked up the pieces, as they do lol. Liptons and Templetons were rebranded as Presto. Presto was owned by Argyll, who bought Safeway uk. Safeway then went too. Think morrisons took them over.
Before this set up I (very briefly) had a Finesound Quadraphonic system I bought with my first months salary from Laskys. It had a Garrard 86SB turntable set into a large plinth which also housed the amp, it was the size of a music centre without having the convenience of a tape deck & tuner. Sounded dreadful so got swiftly moved on.
And before that I had this -
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