Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mtuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtuxn!rubin From: rubin@mtuxn.UUCP (M.RUBIN) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Refurbishing an antique Message-ID: <576@mtuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 19:59:38 EDT Article-I.D.: mtuxn.576 Posted: Tue Jul 2 19:59:38 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:29:51 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ Lines: 11 It looks like I will be inheriting a stereo system from my grandmother as she's moved in with my parents. The thing dates from the early 60's and was apparently audiophile quality for its time; there's an automatic turntable and a reel-to-reel tape deck, and it seems to be all transistors (no warmup time). The manufacturer seems to be Benjamin, but I see "made in W. Germany" on the turntable. Is it worth my time to go in and clean everything? Can the turntable take a modern stylus/cartridge/whatever, and should it? Or has audio advanced so much since then that the sound won't be any better than a $100 system from K-Mart?