Yes I think you're right.
My dad used to have a really handsome, very 60s gramophone unit with valve speakers which took a few minutes to warm up. It doubled as a sideboard; each side was a speaker, and the cabinet inside contained the record deck. He loves his tunes, and every weekend would crank it with whatever took his fancy.

As a child I was always very impressed with it, but when in my late teens when I bought my first sensible stereo separates system, disappointed to learn that my average amp and little Warfdale speakers would blow the absolute shit out of the bloody great clod-hoppers that his had.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:19, Reply)