Transported back in time.. having a big smile on my face... :D

[rohitmusic]

I have seen power house with full range dual cone speakers but not a woofer. The speaker looks really good and well maintained.

Yes they are always packed and stored in a place free from dust, moisture or any other element that could cause the slightest risk of damage. My dad is extremely particular about maintaining his gear! Have been passed on that same gene

At home we have a simple rule, first priority to music gear and everything else follows and can adjust (much to the dismay of our better halves, first it was mom and now my wife wonders what I am upto. But they get used to it after some time )!

 

[ghatgepatil]

At home we have a simple rule, first priority to music gear and everything else follows and can adjust (much to the dismay of our better halves, first it was mom and now my wife wonders what I am upto. But they get used to it after some time )!

Sounds very familiar!

 

[Santy]

You have no idea how I much I loved the power house those days. My friend had this with him and when we played our first ever CD on Discman through its Aux port and we were simply blown away. Later we used to enjoy 2.1 movies on it. The onida TV with subwoofer was adding the lows. It was amazing those days.

+1 to the V config of the EQ. I always used to keep that settings in such systems.

 

[sarith]

You have no idea how I much I loved the power house those days. My friend had this with him and when we played our first ever CD on Discman through its Aux port and we were simply blown away. Later we used to enjoy 2.1 movies on it. The onida TV with subwoofer was adding the lows. It was amazing those days.

+1 to the V config of the EQ. I always used to keep that settings in such systems.

There is a place where they deal scrap metal and few shops are dedicated to scrapped electronic/electrical devices. I don't visit that place often, yet the limited time I have been there I have seen at least 3-4 power house systems kept for sale.

One was in a good condition with all functions working. He was like 'I need Rs.750 for it though slightly negotiable'. Only reason I wasn't tempted was lack of original speakers. I really liked the Onida KY Thunder TV's bass (Bass Blaster?)

 

[Santy]

I have seen power house with full range dual cone speakers but not a woofer. The speaker looks really good and well maintained.

Even the system I was talking about had smaller size drivers like this

I really liked the Onida KY Thunder TV's bass (Bass Blaster?)

Yup. It was the same KY 'Thunder'. Honestly the bass was really good. May be today I will find it horrible but things were are so different those days when you were slowly getting acustomed to "somewhat" hifi.



With the power house we used to do some crazy exepriments those days and we were successful in getting a karoke version of many OSTs.
I feel nostalgic when I remember it, so I must share this (you may laugh)

Assume this is the output on the amplifier
We normally connect speakers as below

AMP L+ L- R+ R-
SPK L+ L- R+ R-

Instead we connected this way

AMP L+ L- R+ R-
SPK L+ R+ L- R-

In other words, one speaker to the red terminals and another speaker to the black terminals
What this probably did was that it cancelled out the in-phase music and the out of phase music (stereophonic) got more pronounced.
So the vocals got subdued and most of the musical passages that had stereo effect were heard at normal levels.

Some recordings worked so well that it felt the singers were almost totally gone and only the music was only playing.
It worked better with CDs since the separation was much better.
We were so convinced that we used this 'trick' in a college event and arranged for a "Karoke" competition; participants loved it.

It worked with movies as well ( 2 channel).
This 'trick' we employed with the Onida TV speakers on 2.1 and the Powerhouse as the surround (overkill?!)
Some surround effects (when you normally expect them in 5.1) will be heard on the "wrongly connected" speakers placed behind, adding to the cinematic experience.
All this was before Dolby was widely used in India and people had probably not experienced surround sound...