So Sylvie

I just have to share a great thrift find. Lately I've been keeping my eyes peeled for vintage stereo equipment. The kind with soul, usually encased in teak cabinets and weighing about ten times as much as the new stuff. At an auction I picked up a mid century Pioneer tape deck in its original box…!!!… for $3.

I love the way the deck is designed so that the tape cassette is reclining in its little window.

My latest find are a pair of Harmon Kardon speakers found at the Goodwill that I took a gamble on for $12…!!! It paid off. They are the big sound I've been longong for ever since I traded in my major-ly grand floor speakers some years ago for a pair of bookshelf speakers. Oh the regret. But I have been happily redeemed. Oh how that bass rumbles across the floor!

 I was listening to Beirut's song Nantes yesterday. Wow, they really do have a lot of instruments. I could hear them all!

These speakers are really a piece of furniture. I love the knubby linen fabric that dresses them (is this photo too dark?):

Okay. I talked myself into it. Time to go cut a rug!