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Klingon-Hifi made in USSR during the cold war

It's acceptable I guess, I just find it ironic that a run off the mill unit that was typically purchased by people who didn't know better now is a collector's item. But it's probably true for a lot of things.
 
Hello forum, A K! From my own experience of using Soviet Hi-Fi equipment, i can say that better than I used this:
Amplifiers: Лорта 50У-202С (Амфитон 25У-002), Прибой 75УМ-104С.
Acoustic systems: Амфитон 25АС-027
Headphones: ТДС-5 and ТДС-15 :)
This is an absolute sound quality!
The secret of the high sound quality achieved in the production of audio equipment the Soviet Union, through the use of "pure metals" in the manufacture of semiconductors and conductors!

Translated from the Russian language in Google translate, sorry.
 
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alg0r1tm said:
Headphones: ТДС-5 and ТДС-15
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I have both, TDS-15 "Amfiton" are awesome headphones, TDS-5 are good, but not "absolute sound quality", just decent orthos. I also have TDS-16 "Echo", which are very good, definitely better than TDS-5 (but not as good as TDS-15).
 
baco99 said:
"Lorta", "Preboye", and "Amphitone"? Did I get the names right? @alg0r1tm
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Yes everything is correct.


rlisin said:
I have both, TDS-15 "Amfiton" are awesome headphones, TDS-5 are good, but not "absolute sound quality", just decent orthos. I also have TDS-16 "Echo", which are very good, definitely better than TDS-5 (but not as good as TDS-15).
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TDS-5 (100 ohm impedance) sounds a little flat, but in the interval 20-20000 Hz amplitude characteristics frequency all only 3-4 dB. :) I was lucky, I bought TDS-5 for $25!))
 
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alg0r1tm said:
Hello forum, A K! From my own experience of using Soviet Hi-Fi equipment, i can say that better than I used this:
Amplifiers: Лорта 50У-202С (Амфитон 25У-002), Прибой 75УМ-104С.
Acoustic systems: Амфитон 25АС-027
Headphones: ТДС-5 and ТДС-15 :)
This is an absolute sound quality!
The secret of the high sound quality achieved in the production of audio equipment the Soviet Union, through the use of "pure metals" in the manufacture of semiconductors and conductors!

Translated from the Russian language in Google translate, sorry.
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Welcome to the AK community!
 
alg0r1tm said:
Yes everything is correct.




TDS-5 (100 ohm impedance) sounds a little flat, but in the interval 20-20000 Hz amplitude characteristics frequency all only 3-4 dB. :) I was lucky, I bought TDS-5 for $25!))
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Talk about luck, mine were about $3 :)
I did have to fit a new wire, pads and a head cushion (the leather part was not there, I used a part from different headphones, works perfectly), so a total was probably closer to $10.

I also have Peerless PMB 6 orthos and I definitely like all TDS cans better.
 
Dear lovers of sound equipment of the USSR!

If you are interested in this topic, we are waiting for you on our resource
https://hi-fidelity-forum.com/forum/thread-188339-post-4030750.html#pid4030750
Here you can learn a lot of interesting things about tape recorders of the USSR May, Romance, the Union and many other interesting models of amplifiers and acoustic systems.
Here you can buy such equipment at very low prices.

Good luck to you sound and equipment!
 
Well I do own Radiotehnika Speakers Giants FS-100. Not exactly from Soviet Era But they sound nicely. Kids played with them and that is why some speakers have "dents" in them but it didn't seem to effect anything at least audibly :). I brought them from Latvia sometime in 2005 or 2006. They are 40KG each i had to bribe somebody at Uzbekistan Airways :D
 

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This is definitely interesting thread. I read those pages with interest. Looking through the pics. For the German lover (I know his posts dated several years back)of Soviet HI FI I should say that He definitely should replace those electrolytic caps because they are known to dry and fail. Also if you see red rectangular thin(it is millimeter or less thick) capacitor replace it because they used to fail a lot. Interestingly that basically never seen open/shorted resistor in Soviet electronics unless something caused for it to burn. Transformers were always made very well. When i was in university i owned Bark001 amp which if i remember correctly was a version of Brig.
 
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Icevic said:
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the Soviets had first class audio equipment: audio recording, reproduction and amplification have critical military applications and the Soviets did not want to fall behind in the arms race. The consumer market would have been just a sideline.

As for Soviet engineering, it does strike us as foreign: overbuilt, overweight, and alternating between fussily complicated and child-like simplicity. But there is a real genius to Soviet engineering which is not properly appreciated in the West, especially the robustness and repairability of it.
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Yes very often this over complication was dictated by the limited array of components to achieve same or better characteristics then their Western counterparts. So engineers were forced to invent a "new wheels" and often it was resulting in non standard and interesting solutions
 
Always tickled me about how WE would get STERNLY admonished to NEVER tell anyone what we did where I worked-We were a gravure label printing concern, We specialized in Cigarette labels, certain food labels, stuff like that. That might have got me canned, but the Big Dawgs would trot anyone-even competitors all thru the plant & show anyone everyone what we did. But I reckon its pretty universal-Right after the USSR went out of business, I saw a pic of A, American & Russian fighter jocks sitting on/around an F-16, & one of the Russians was holding his hands in a manner like he was making a tight turn..Just a bunch of Flyboys talkin' shop, All of 'em were grinning big time, not a snarl or hateful look to be seen. I HOPE that sort of attitude is more common than the other way around. I'm sure MacIntosh don't tell Sansui, but engineers are people, too, & what kid who gets a bright, new Playpretty can't wait to tell all about/show off his new treat ?
 
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