I FOUND A MASSIVE VINTAGE HIFI COLLECTION IN A SMALL TOWN

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8 күн бұрын

I discovered a collection of vintage hifi & vintage audio in a small town in Pennsylvania that took over 50 years to build. It was located in a store called The Turntable Store. The owner Max has been in the hifi business since the 1970s! Check out one of the coolest vintage stereo stores in the country, and one of my new favorite vintage audio friends Max!
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@marcparsons1726 6 күн бұрын

Love those kind of places! Just gave me an itch to buy something. Thanks Lenny!

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Anytime! Glad you enjoyed it!

@haroldbrooks4235 6 күн бұрын

I hate them pretty sure my head would explode in there 🤯😂❤❤

@haroldbrooks4235 6 күн бұрын

@@LennyFlorentinethat’s the thing about The Vintage once you learn more about them. We want all of them. Back in the in the 70’s as a young man many of us were biased towards other brands because of sheer ignorance and exposure to real audiophile culture. Thank goodness for Social Media now I know there’s more out there than Pioneer, Marantz, Sansui, Kenwood, Technics, Onkyo, Sony and McIntosh ❤

@SkyQuest2K8 5 күн бұрын

Yes, and it gave me an itch to hook up components I have which have just been sitting around for years. Wow!

@pervertedalchemist9944 6 күн бұрын

This is essentially a vintage audio museum.

@zippyatrainbow 6 күн бұрын

I own a Rotel 1412. Battleship of an amp. Just flicking the switches on high hi end 1970's is an experience. 😊😊😊😊😊

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

I agree! Nice receiver, it’s a keeper for sure!

@theaustralianconundrum 6 күн бұрын

@@LennyFlorentine I never let my collection get to quite that stage but when I turned 60 I sold everything I had except for the first electronic component I bought from my from my first job aged 17 and it is a Marantz 2210 and I still have the receipt, owners manual, packing and original factory box and it still runs and has never been re capped nor toughed in any way. LOL Cheers.

@budgetkeyboardist 6 күн бұрын

In 1988 I sold hi fi for a living. I was bad at sales, but I loved the stuff. All these years later I still love the stuff. Fun video!

@fluxcapacitor-gg5lv 6 күн бұрын

Mind blown. I love that this place exists!

@admiralhipowa7158 6 күн бұрын

That’s an insane collection

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

It was amazing! Can’t wait to go back!

@georgebliss964 6 күн бұрын

That's a great store, and the gear looks in very good condition. That rare Revox cassette deck is quite something, and I bet this publicity will lead to its quick sale.

@georgebliss964 6 күн бұрын

Maybe not with an asking price of $1800.00.

@spacemissing 6 күн бұрын

Don't ignore "furniture" speakers. Some of those cabinets contain treasure!

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

Yeah wild stuff

@henryboudewijns4750 5 күн бұрын

Funny to hear that the Philips cassette deck is rare in America. You saw them a lot here in the Netherlands. The 900 series was the best they sold here from Philips in the 90s. I also had such a system with a DCC 900 digital tape deck instead of a cassette deck.

@wronghandshooter 6 күн бұрын

Really cool store. Worth a trip to Manheim

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

They have a local restaurant with some good whiskey as well!

@neilroberts1512 6 күн бұрын

Hi fi heaven❤

@HighTemper79 6 күн бұрын

Schaub Lorenz was a German company that made tube radios and other things. I have an AM tube radio from them and still working. Nice store, pity for me is on the other side of the Atlantic.😁😁😁

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Thanks for the info!

@bertram3814 6 күн бұрын

Outstanding information mate!

@HighTemper79 6 күн бұрын

@@LennyFlorentine You welcome. Thank you for your nice videos.

@HighTemper79 6 күн бұрын

@@bertram3814 Thanks😅

@glenncurry3041 6 күн бұрын

Those marble topped speakers are Empire Grenadiers. I repped those back in the day! My son has a pair. Very advanced design. No cabinet edge refraction like other boxes. Vertical alignment not staggered as was popular back then. Downward firing 15" woofer!

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Great info Glenn! Thanks for sharing!

@jskobe808 6 күн бұрын

Great video. Love to see other audiophiles collections. Awesome

@thomasperina2990 6 күн бұрын

Hello Captain Sub: Thank you for this video. You really landed a gold mine when you found this audio store. I loved this video emeensly. Thank you again & stay safe, your loyal customer/ subscriber, TMP from N.J.

@muhammadfazalradioshop2308 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful shop 💕 beautiful 💕 sound systems 💕

@Norman-bone13 6 күн бұрын

Fun video Lenny. Thanks. I’d much rather deal with an independently owned store like this than big box or chain. I’d love to visit. 👍🏼😎🎶

@icerider3937 6 күн бұрын

Wow 🤩 what a dream. Fantastic

@bpalpha 6 күн бұрын

😍 Gawd dang! Component heaven. The Sony ES cassette! 😘 That Phillips cassette deck design can be seen in the movie Contact. They use a Phillips receiver and some jbls (?) to play back the signal. Such nice stuff. Thanks!

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

The end of that movie as a kid gave me nightmares with those backwards legs haha

@dilbyjones 6 күн бұрын

Should show her cleaning process! Great show again.

@glenncurry3041 6 күн бұрын

Foam panel speakers with off the shelf exciters are very popular in DYI.

@harrisarp3841 4 күн бұрын

Great store!!!Unfortunately we dont have places like this in Greece!!!You are very lucky Lenny!!

@edwardbianchi192 6 күн бұрын

I was able to acquire the Mitsubishi Meters for that amp for $25 a long time ago. But they are the analog one. One of my favorite pieces.

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

That is a great piece!

@user-qo1uu2cq7o 3 күн бұрын

Wow what a collection!

@hebgbb 4 күн бұрын

Sound Advance produced inwall versions of those Bertagni speakers. I install a bunch of them in high-end custom homes 30 years ago. Their styrofoam surface replaced gypsum board. The drywall contractor would mud them into their surrounding surfaces. They were designed strictly for background music. They didn't sound very good. Sound Advance later produced an equalizer to assist with the overall balance. Think of listening to Bose 901 speakers without their proprietary equalizer.

@jimwhite9989 4 күн бұрын

Looks like you walked by a pair of NHT2.9 speakers. Great speakers! ❤

@scottaltland4951 6 күн бұрын

i live about 30 minutes from the store...bought my 70's era Yamaha turntable from there.Awesome place! Went down the cassette rabbithole so that will be my go to source!

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Very cool! They have a lot of nice ones!

@joemyers2818 5 күн бұрын

Great video, what a place. It isn't exactly vintage audio but you were close to a legendary concert sound and video company, Clair Global. They started out as Clair Brothers in Lititz Pa just to the east of Manheim. They now have locations all over the world. Some cool things are hidden in the corn fields of Pennsylvania.

@OldWurlitzerMusic 6 күн бұрын

great collection , i strained my eyes looking for a sx 1010 but the 828 is nice also , really nice brick work on the building !

@storytimewithunclekumaran5004 6 күн бұрын

Yamaha made keyboard amp/speakers out of that white styrofoam.. in the weird square shape with a corner missing..

@Max-wc8ug 4 күн бұрын

I believe they have the "Elephant Speakers" nickname :)

@scottwhite2757 6 күн бұрын

Geez ,, Incredible..

@grabir01 6 күн бұрын

Some nice stuff for sure.

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

It was a blast

@nick1080p 5 күн бұрын

You should make a Philips 900 series video. It was mind blowing back in the 90s.

@frankierodriguez8661 5 күн бұрын

You always tell the story about the the McIntosh 275 vs. the wife. I'm starting to think after these years listening to you telling that story that might be, just might be YO ARE THE HUSBAND hiding behind that tube amp's facelifting. Tell me the truth brother because the doubt is killing me. LOL - By the way, the Rotel integrated at the start of this video, I hear several times that not only that is a gorgeous piece but one of the most powerful best built amps of all time. Great vid . Much love as always from West Spain!!

@twisted2291 6 күн бұрын

I'm in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and there is nothing around here that I know of. But 20 miles south in Winchester VA there is a place called Ear Food, and they deal with a bit of every thing. Not as nice or as cool as this place in this video, but still pretty cool.

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Added to the list of record stores to visit!

@karaDee2363 6 күн бұрын

Thanks so much Lenny for the tour of this awesome store... think I could wander in there all day.. if I'm in Pennsylvania I'll definitely check them out. More so for the music they have

@HighEnd-S 6 күн бұрын

Astonishing !!! Let the good old times Roll !!!

@FxMora02 5 күн бұрын

Great Stop. thank you.

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

@anthonygreene834 2 күн бұрын

Man,what a Candy store!!🍬🍫🍭

@cunningtim 3 күн бұрын

Finally a place I know! (I sold him that Pioneer RTR.) Great people at The Turntable Store; I didn’t realize he had so much stock beyond what was on the floor.

@LennyFlorentine Күн бұрын

Very cool!

@markn.7623 6 күн бұрын

Very cool! 👍👍

@madcrabber1113 6 күн бұрын

Super cool!

@gsj8793 6 күн бұрын

ITT Schaub-Lorenz was a German manufacturer of electrical engineering based in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. The company was part of the American conglomerate International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (ITT) and was created through the merger of C. Lorenz AG with Standard Elektrik AG. Its product range included telephones, teleprinters, fax machines, radio equipment, and information technology. For private customers, the company primarily produced consumer electronics under the brand "Schaub-Lorenz," and from 1961 also under the brand "Graetz" after acquiring the company of the same name. A significant portion of the business, however, was in the area of government contracts. In addition to communications equipment for the Deutsche Bundespost or for equipping government agencies and the Bundeswehr, Standard Elektrik Lorenz developed and produced signaling, control, and safety technology for rail transport, as well as aerospace technology. 👍

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Wow thank you for sharing all that info! I was hoping to get an answer like this!

@gsj8793 6 күн бұрын

@@LennyFlorentine You're very welcome. Growing up in Austria, we used to see many products from Schaub-Lorenz in the 70's, which were regarded as well built, high quality components. They produced TVs, cassette recorders, radios, hifi-equipment and even speakers.

@stevezeidman7224 6 күн бұрын

Great place to go! I’d love to visit there.

@marlonpingol5641 3 күн бұрын

Really love these diff.kinds ok amplifiers.,cd, dvds player

@samuelg7673 6 күн бұрын

Man, i gotta vist there someday.

@UnitedStatesofAnalog 6 күн бұрын

Love seeing you back on the road again... where you belong... like an audiophile Jack Kerouac... with a Billy Gibbons beard!

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

When you order ZZ Top off of Wish…

@pablochavezsalas7615 5 күн бұрын

Yo tuve 2 veces el bose 551 spatial control receiver, es un excelente equipo poco conocido. Saludos desde ensenada México!.

@musicnerd72 Күн бұрын

Another toy store!!! Wish I could've been there too! 👍

@bblimediamostlyspeakers 3 күн бұрын

Lots of goodies and treasures in there. Styrofoam speakers! I should get some transducers from Parts-Express and build a set just for sheer curiosity! Oh my mom had one of those Sharp Radio cassette players exactly like that except it was blue! I took it apart when I was young... and that is how I started my interest in audio!

@tjtreinen7381 6 күн бұрын

Cool place... Got my eye on the dbx box....

@markoverton5858 6 күн бұрын

Great vlog love the chat about stuff, a lot of helpful comments 👍👍👍👍👏

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for contributing to them!

@edwardbianchi192 6 күн бұрын

It would be nice to make a Revox stack!

@jackallen6261 6 күн бұрын

@ 11:25 you are talking about a pair of speakers on the floor...they lock a lot like a set of Sonics that i bought at a thrift store a few years ago and have been able to find 0 Information about. They look to be factory made but I find absolutely nothing on line. They are kinda open baffle meaning they have no ports and behind every driver (5 per speaker) they have a hole drilled the same size as the driver. They actually sound really good! They are about 2 foot tall and wide. The style looks be from the very late 60's to mid 70's.Editted to add Now I know what these speakers are...but not what mine are! The search continues!! lol. If anyone has heard of these Sonic speakers let me know! I would be eternally grateful!!

@MrJohnBos 5 күн бұрын

OMG - I have to visit this store. Talk about a kid in a candy shop. All very tempting but, I think I'll keep my NAD 7220PE.

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

You should!!

@TheLifeandSadEnding 6 күн бұрын

I go in there all the time.

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

That’s awesome! I was very excited to finally get to visit, and was not disappointed!!

@socksumi 6 күн бұрын

Those speaker on the floor you don't recognize look like BES, Bertagni "planar" speakers... basically some resonators stuck to a slab of styrofoam and a piezo tweeter for the treble. They look cool but were regarded as dreadful sounding by many audiophiles. Those massive towers look like the astonishingly accurate Dunlavy speakers from the 90s... designed almost exclusively by measurement.

@v1-vr-rotatev2-vy_vx31 6 күн бұрын

Have a pair of mirage tower speakers from Canada,, heavy by weight,, no need for a subwoofer with these...

@dtracy03ss 6 күн бұрын

Those Cassettes all over , the Cassettes from the 80s and 90s recorded on good Quality tapes, with proper Dolby can sound Dang Near as good as a CD with a High Quality Cassette Deck, I have a Pioneer CT-A9X completely gone through that Rocks Cassettes! Also have a nice Selection of Blank Sealed Cassettes and of Course your Awesome Pioneer SX1280 that shipped herein a Pallet!! The Truck Driver couldn't believe it! So come to Ft Wayne IN ! There are some Very Old Vinyl Shops etc around here! Dave

@OperatorCVK Күн бұрын

O wow!It`s place of power!

@Barbarapape 5 күн бұрын

I still have a large collection of vintage Hi-Fi but not on this scale. Now that i have retired from consumer electronics i can spend time refurbishing the ones that were bought as spares or repair. Vintage gear was bulit to last, todays gear is designed to disposable.

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

That’s fun! Thanks for sharing!

@Ricky-cl5bu 6 күн бұрын

Amazing

@stephenpowers5653 6 күн бұрын

Check out a place in Cartersville Ga. Ate Tracks, it’s a restaurant filled with vintage Hifi!

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

Added to the list!

@99solutionsit10 6 күн бұрын

15:40 "Don't grow up, it's a trap"🤔

@bluelithium9808 5 күн бұрын

"BES" was the brand name of the flat speakers.

@normwetherbee3403 3 күн бұрын

Great video Lenny! Your camera works fine. Not sure how long ago you filmed this but I checked out his website because I'm sure I spotted at least 1 pair of Small Advents and they're not listed. Pretty sure I saw a set of NHT 2.9's behind those transducer speakers he set up for you. Those are my Holy Grail but I'm guessing they'd be too expensive to ship. I'm kind of glad I don't live anywhere near this place. lol P.S. Get a fitted hat...you deserve it.

@LennyFlorentine 3 күн бұрын

Thank you! Put it out the day after I filmed it so everything is probably still there. Thanks for the recommendation but I can never do the fitted haha. You should give them a visit!

@bigcity2085 6 күн бұрын

I have a mid 70's Onkyo TX 4500 and mom uses my Onkyo TX 2500 mkII in her painting studio in the house-she loves it.(she's 92, the Onk was 30 bucks.) I also have a 1983 Honda CX 650c and owned a 1968 Triumph Bonneville 40 yrs. ago. The point is, would you rather have a garage full of old motorcycles or a room full of old stereos. I'd take the bikes. All you need is a TX 4500....it does it all. Channel A is studio monitors. B is video monitors. C lights up the garage speakers outside the studio , where the bike is...and there's enough wire to go outside. That's all you need. A good 'ol bike and a good 'ol stereo.(and a studio in yer garage) Not rich by any means. But I've got the schnizz.

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@bigcity2085 6 күн бұрын

@@LennyFlorentine Thanks. There's YooToobers making the grass look greener all over the world. It finally hit me ;.... my grass aint so bad. In fact, it rocks.(I'm in Colorado 10 miles from the mountains....when I get done minting out the bike, up i go.) But home, is the big Onkyo,in the studio( Selcuk Celebi , Y tuber in Turkey, knows about my studio -you can see his futuristic vision of my studio on his site) ......seriously, ...can't we all just get along ?

@endrizo 4 күн бұрын

27:40 ELO afterglow album.. all b sides and unreleased Elo songs. a must have for collectors

@brianbillings6815 14 сағат бұрын

Zero mention of the Vandersteen speakers sitting there. Best of the bunch. Possibly a set of Dahlquist hidden in the back too....

@casio745 6 күн бұрын

superb ......

@johnreeves8156 4 күн бұрын

Wish we had something like this here near Galveston Texas although from a financial point of view it's probably best there isn't

@RedSinter 6 күн бұрын

Nice Kenny...

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

Thanks James!

@RedSinter 6 күн бұрын

@@LennyFlorentine you know those Styrofoam Speakers WERE A TRIP!

@Dave_Boyer 6 күн бұрын

Who didn’t just use Google, to see where this place is?

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

I’m vintage, I use paper maps. It’s way more fun!

@dennycranium 6 күн бұрын

I'm looking for an old kenwood mini system from the 90s it's called a UD-100. It's separate components. A C-922 control amp, B-922 power amp, dp-722 CD player and an x-722 dual cassette player. I'll take a whole system or components. My c-922 has quit. Lenny, can you (or anyone) help me find one?

@pbenson56fran 6 күн бұрын

I ruin my cassette player a few years ago. This is a great store.

@VintageStereoCollector 5 күн бұрын

There’s a lot of modern stereos on the left side in the beginning of the video

@tomkershaw4384 5 күн бұрын

Great video Lenny! I live in Norristown Pa so Manheim isn't a hard reach for me. Thanks!

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

Awesome Tom thank you!

@Toggymok 5 күн бұрын

@1:10 - Technics 'thinking outside the box'

@ChuckSannel 6 күн бұрын

10:42 you danced around the yamaha CR-2020 there, then missed it :(

@raybelcher 4 күн бұрын

Thanks

@resistorstudios 4 күн бұрын

11:08 those are BES Bertagni ...... I had those. They were pretty good speakers but just dont have the oomph that I like from traditional woofers.

@marlonpingol5641 3 күн бұрын

Hope I can go there,

@RUfromthe40s 4 күн бұрын

i still have in use a set of kenwood speakers ,huge ones bought in 1971 they have three ways and , i think they have four ways with a 60cm ,almost the doble area of a Lp record woofer giant one only 70 watts output(real ones) that with a Yamaha studio monitor ,horizontal one i get better frequency response and quality sound from a SA-9800 from pioneer, i used to have some HPM-100 but send them to be restored, i do this for a long time big speakers for the bass frequencies and a better sounding studio monitor on top for better mids and highs, those electrostatic speakers never atracted me the Quad brigade spent a lot on them in early 80´s but today all their systems look old and sound bad

@cleaverbrad 5 күн бұрын

You missed the NHT 2.5i speakers. I've owned them since 1999. They are the ones with off-axis fronts in black piano fisnis. I have the cherry wood finish.

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

I sure did! Thanks for adding that!

@shahnawajmalik7866 11 сағат бұрын

I love Sir this video

@andrejuliomateus5969 6 күн бұрын

Putz, ...Great !

@Weneedpeople 6 күн бұрын

Apparently mentioned the BES speakers before I watched the entire video

@seventyfourseventyfour Күн бұрын

You skipped right over that beautiful gold Pilot tube amp! They sound great 9:48

@topekasub 5 күн бұрын

I have that Akai 1800 accessory box!😅

@RUfromthe40s 5 күн бұрын

my hometown is small and lot´s of people have hi-fi colections and music also maybe the reason why is that in a small town you need to get your time ocupied or hard drugs will be next in line as i did since my 16 birthday till i made 50, now 20 years clean and no health issue but smoke like a horse mainly at weekends and 50 kg of weight i was 125 ,now 115 but till i was 50 ,73 kg at the most and i´m 1.81 and was always doing some sport, only stoped when i was almost 40 i needed to run 8 kms everyday and sometimes i took at least 3 cigars or after a afternoon of smoking coke and heroin, those were the days

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

Congrats on 20 Years!!!!

@RUfromthe40s 4 күн бұрын

@@LennyFlorentine thank you! my luck is that drugs disapeared , i know the services from the state to help the drug adict and a psicologist tells me they have 200 persons in treatment with buprenorfina and ...never took it so i can´t remenber but it´s the most used substance to substitute heroin and alcohol around the world ,but she tells me that all adicts when doing the mandatory blood analyses no cocaine a or heroine was found in their blood and what are they consuming ?well i met a lot of people and after mid 90´s no real drugs are found and i used to travel 400kms into Spain to a very rough neighborhood and there because we always bought big amounts of both heroin and cocaine they would come in their cars to get us from a industrial park where we could park our cars along with the workers of a factory and there non cars were broke into be stolen or just vandalised , but there we could find the most higher levels of purity and all diferent origins drugs from south America or from the East, Pakistan, Afeganistan, Tunisia, etc.maybe because of the wars, so i can´t go out and buy what i was used to and no real hard drugs are sold in reality, it´s a plus

@alexw890 6 күн бұрын

No love for that gorgeous Tandberg?

@LennyFlorentine 5 күн бұрын

Missed it!

@slayer666ere 4 күн бұрын

🤘❤️🤘

@paulstubbs7678 6 күн бұрын

26:39 New to me also

@topekasub 5 күн бұрын

TEAC real name!👍

@user-qo1uu2cq7o 3 күн бұрын

Can you give us a hint kind of on pricing. To the best of my knowledge nothing in that shop would be cheap especially some of those nice vintage stuff. Was all the equipment in working condition?😊 Very curious about that McIntosh amplifier wow which model was it question mark and what date did it come from. To anybody that sees this you have to pay to play no if ands or buts or jewing somebody down

@Weneedpeople 6 күн бұрын

The tall speakers were either Dunlavy or Duntech... The ones on each side, flattish looking speakers are BES, from 1985- kind of a flat speaker has a panel made out of foam or plastic, excited by a glued on driver... Truly awful but interesting.

@LennyFlorentine 6 күн бұрын

You nailed it!

@RUfromthe40s Күн бұрын

those V15 cartridges currentelly i´ve 3 of them in my turntables and last year i putted a new strylus in each noty that the one in the turntable was already worn out but if they were stoped for 30 something years i wannted to see if the old new stylus were all ok and it were also still have three new ones when needed from the brand VNP-15 i think and none is MKII or later all are MKI, it was the best one could aford mm type, today no matter the money you´ll spend you´ll never get this quality

@jim010109 6 күн бұрын

Awesome video. It would be cool to just go on a quest like that.

@RUfromthe40s Күн бұрын

only know west virginia from the song country road that i have in a 1969 Joan baez compilation bought in japan, it´s one of those that played a lot and still no noises in the songs and it is most of it acoustic, now i can hearwith the volume loud some noise inbetween tracks but that´s because i have been listening to it a lot compared to the other more than 15.000 LP´s i own, and my region was a very hot and dry no humidity in the air ,but now we have the biggest artificial lake in Europe with a big volume of water and humidity now it´s horrible makes me remenber Africa