Happy New Year from all of us at Copper! (And from Teppaz in this circa 1950s ad. We'd be happy to come across one of these stylish portable record players!)

What they lacked in style the 20W-2 amplifier and AE-2 "amplifier equalizer" made up for in sound. McIntosh ad, circa 1950s.

Champagne music: the color was a popular alternate finish in the 1960s and 1970s, as this Pioneer SA-6200 stereo integrated amplifier/mixer shows. Made from 1973 to 1975, it offered a whopping 15 watts per channel (into 8 or 4 ohms) but offered unusual flexibility, with two phono inputs, two tape inputs/outputs and a whole lot more; even jacks for headphones and a microphone. Courtesy of Vintage Chief.com.

Lost in a sea of tubes, but in 1936 he didn't have the option of solid-state. Radio News, July 1936.

Well...maybe not, regardless of what this 1970s ad for Florida audio dealer Sound Exchange might have told us.
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