00:08Music
00:16Well, Paul, say hypothetically I had money to spare, lots of money, as much as I needed.
00:22What would be the ultimate system for a house? What would you pay for it?
00:25Oh, you could pay up to something like over $4,000.
00:29I'd say I decide to go ahead and buy a really cheap system. What problems have I got myself into?
00:35Well, with the cheapest systems, you're going to find not only have you got poor sound, poor reproduction,
00:44but more often than not, you've got very poor service backup.
00:48That's important to people. If something breaks down, they'd like to know it'll be fixed.
00:55You'll soon find out, once you get into the sound, that the cheaper systems just don't work.
01:02They ruin the records for another thing.
01:05The turntable, you can imagine if a turntable like this one, which would cost you in the vicinity of $500.
01:13Why is it so? The cheaper ones naturally cut down on their components, and it's not good for records when
01:21your arm doesn't track correctly.
01:22Out of cassette player?
01:24Out of cassette player. Well, if you want a top-line cassette player, you'd go up to $1,200 even.
01:29Wow.
01:30But for a good average one, I suppose, $500, $600 a deal.
01:34All right, let's go the other way. So I didn't have much money, very little in fact.
01:36What would be the best system I could get without sort of going to the cruddy material?
01:40About $429. You can get a good system with an AM-FM radio as well.
01:46In the tuner?
01:47Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's something like a San Sui or a Pioneer. San Sui Trivional Flight, Pioneer, London 3000X.
01:53And what about the Dolby system? What exactly does that mean?
01:55Well, the Dolby system is a noise reduction system. You know, in all tapes, and especially running at a low
02:03speed, you've got a lot of tape hiss that's inherent in the tape itself.
02:07So the Dolby, by devious electronic methods, reduces the amount of hiss by increasing the amount of signal in relation
02:17to the hits. Does that make sense?
02:18Yeah.
02:19We'll accept that. And the cassettes themselves, you can get sort of quite a different variety of cassettes for prices.
02:26Yeah.
02:27What do you lose by buying a cheap cassette?
02:30Well, you lose your music eventually.
02:33Now, the cheaper ones, you know, your $9, no, sorry, your 99 cent El Cheapo cassette will rub off on
02:41the head, you know, the tape passes across the head.
02:44And the oxide runs off on the head. It gums up your head, you lose, you know, people complain, come
02:49in complaining about loss of high frequency.
02:52And you'll find mostly it's from using cheaper cassettes with dirty heads.
02:56What makes a good speaker?
02:58A speaker should reproduce all the sounds fairly evenly. That's the low sounds, middle sounds and high sounds.
03:04You can buy sort of different brands of things. Is it a good idea to get the same brand of
03:08turntable amp speakers, et cetera, or can you match them without much trouble?
03:11Oh, they're all compatible. As a matter of fact, sometimes it's not good to get the whole system in one
03:20brand because a particular manufacturer's forte may be in his amplifier.
03:27You know, they make up the other things in their range, you know, to sell the whole system.
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03:53Play that funky music, white everybody.
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