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Mystery "blue dial" 1970's receiver. (update: it's a Lafayette LR-1100)

scotlawrence · 2015-10-09T12:59:51+00:00

Hello everyone, I joined a year or so ago, and have been enjoying the forums.. Now I need some help! please! I am searching for my childhood stereo receiver. (not the actual one itself, but the same model.) I was a kid in the 70's, and a teenager in the 80's.. our "family stereo system" consisted of a receiver, with a record player and an 8-track player plugged into it (it was the 70's!) ;) and two big speakers..all that equipment has long since disappeared.. :( my parents moved a few times in the 90's, when I was in college and my early 20's, and I think my Dad just let it go, since it was all "old" and I think some of the components had stopped working.. So now im 46 years old, my Dad passed away a few years back, and im undergoing a wave of nostalgia! :) and im trying to track down that childhood receiver..and my wife and I want to play our records! :) which havent been touched in decades..so I want to set up a vintage receiver and a record player..:music: The receiver was definitely an early to mid 70's "blue dial"..perhaps blue-greenish..it was nothing high-end, it was just average..maybe even low-end, but that's ok by me.. Going only by memory, a few weeks ago I started looking at photos..I thought it could be a Pioneer SX-434: http://audio-database.com/PIONEER-EXCLUSIVE/amp/sx-434.JPG based only on my memories, that looked about right.. but then I tracked down an actual photo of my receiver! nope..it's not that Pioneer.. Then I thought it must be a Kenwood..I looked at every on-line photo I could find..I just can not find a match! :( So then I searched this group for "brands with a blue dial"..got a list from a thread here..went to the "HiFi database" and looked at pages and pages of photos..nothing matches exactly! In the HiFi database, I looked at: Akai, Marantz, Sony, Sansui, Hitachi, Technics, Mitsubishi, Tandburg, Pioneer, Kenwood..nothing matches exactly! so im at a loss...here is the one photo I have of it: sorry for the poor quality..thats a zoomed-in crop of a general photo of the room it was in...its the best I can do. Five evenly spaced knobs, all the same size, on the left. four or five push buttons on the right. two dials to the right of the blue tuner display.. anyone have any idea? thanks, Scot

Thread starter scotlawrence
Start date Oct 9, 2015
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lafayette lafayette lr-1100 lr-1100

Mr.White

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May 7, 2023

I've since sold my LR-9090. I'm currently messing around with a little LR-100 and I'm enjoying it. Also a freebie!

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