Lafayette Recevers?
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Dswankey
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I have a LR-5555 receiver (55 wpc) that sounds great, a very handsome unit. (not my photo). I plan on using it in my garage system with some B&W speakers.
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/lafayette/lr-5555.shtml
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/lafayette/lr-5555.shtml
well I spent a couple years sourcing parts on a LR1500TA I did and it surely smelled a lot like old kenwood (trio) inside....In fact I think some of the Tekes I have (TK models) look like boards can swap over.
the skipper
Professional Curmudgeon
That's interesting. I know Allied was bought out by Tandy/Radio Shack in the late 60's (I worked for Tandy at that time) and I sold the last few Allied receivers then but wasn't aware about their link to Lafayette.
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mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
Not an answer to the OP's question -- but (finally) "we" are starting to get a fair collection of LRE catalogs/literature, courtesy of American Radio History.
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Lafayette_Catalogs.htm
Not comprehensive -- but not bad, either.
Wonderful, wonderful site (and resource) is www.americanradiohistory.com (no affiliation -- just glad they exist)
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Lafayette_Catalogs.htm
Not comprehensive -- but not bad, either.
Wonderful, wonderful site (and resource) is www.americanradiohistory.com (no affiliation -- just glad they exist)
the skipper
Professional Curmudgeon
Hey! Thanks! The middle 1966 catalog has my first "real" stereo system. A Lafayette LA-224A, A pait of Criterion 50 speakers and a Garrard AT-60 turntable (upgraded from the system AT-40) Great memories.
Ohighway
Wannabe Minimalist
Every piece of Lafayette equipment I got back in the late 60's still looks and functions great. Maybe I'm the one who got the last laugh?
Binkman
Lunatic Member
Actually Tandy bought out Allied in 1970 per online. In Poughkeepsie, NY.. I was in my mid teens and rode my bike to the store.. I suppose any store cold carry brands marketed in any one region. I clearly remember the Laf. logo on the window with others.
They carried an assortment of audio gear, some TV's, antenna's and parts and serviced gear, too.
My dad bought and I have his Sherwood S-8600-A I rescued from my audio inept bros.who left atop the AR-2x speakers in his carport and ruined the cabs, I sold those off and kept the receiver. Nobody owned up what happened to his Dual 1019.. yeah inept.
the skipper
Professional Curmudgeon
Before I got drafted, I managed a Tandy owned and operated stereo (only) concession in Bamberger's (Macy's) department store in New Jersey in 1968 and we had the remaining stock Allied receivers to sell, along with brand name stereo gear so, the sale was definitely prior to 1970. I never saw any Lafayette gear, though. You might be thinking of a "franchise" store which had more flexibility than a company owned store.
Now, while the ink may have been applied to the paper in 1970, they were moving towards that years before that.
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mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/15/...dio-assets-companies-take-merger-actions.html
Tandy's ownership of Allied was very brief (due to court intervention).
Tandy divested itself of Allied's assets in 1973. Couldn't find an NYT article, but here's a mention of if from 20 April 1974 in Billboard (end of this blurb about Motorola's TV business). https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1974/Billboard 1974-04-20.pdf
Tandy's ownership of Allied was very brief (due to court intervention).
Tandy divested itself of Allied's assets in 1973. Couldn't find an NYT article, but here's a mention of if from 20 April 1974 in Billboard (end of this blurb about Motorola's TV business). https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1974/Billboard 1974-04-20.pdf
Lavane
Lunatic Member
Did someone else own the company by this time? I remember having to go to another company, don't remember the name, for manuals and schematics for earlier Lafayette equipment. The manuals I got were originals, not copies.I have a LR-5555 receiver (55 wpc) that sounds great, a very handsome unit. (not my photo). I plan on using it in my garage system with some B&W speakers.
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/lafayette/lr-5555.shtml
1tumbleweed
Kozmik Kowboy
I think you're perhaps misremembering. I would find that very unlikely, given that - at the time - Allied and Lafayette were straight-on competitors. It would be like finding BFGoodrich tires at the Firestone store.
Lafayette stores sold their own brand of receivers - perhaps made by Foster - and Allied had Knight. After the abortive Allied/Radio Shack merger, the house brand became ARS (for Allied/Radio Shack), and then either went back to "Realistic" or "RS".
1tumbleweed
Kozmik Kowboy
Lafayette Radio Electronics goes back to the 1940's, based in Syosset, NY. To the best of my knowledge, they were under the same ownership until they went kaput.
