The Quadraphonic Amplifier

Recycling, the blue recycling bin, is possibly the worst environmental blow to hit Toronto – and maybe your city – in the past thirty years. “It’s not garbage” is a perpetual cry from the environmental side. In these pages I will bring you examples of WHY this “Blue Bin” mentality should be stopped. Sadly, I’ll be competing against an entrenched multi-million dollar program of indoctrination.

Here is a Noresco quadraphonic tuner/amp I picked up out of the recycling bin. It is perched on top of my old computer, the “Big beige Box”, which serves as a juke box, streaming music 24/7.

The usual controls and then some.

The left-most push-button is the on/off switch, and the amplifier is turned on and makes beautiful sound.

A poor shot; I was trying to show how clean the amplifier is; no scratches, no gummy finger marks.

Here’s a rear-view. More connectors than I’ve ever seen on an amplifier.

They start at “Phono”, hidden by the AM aerial, and continue to “Tape Out”

And they are lined up in PAIRS of course!

So what is wrong with the amplifier/

As far as I can see, only this: When the on/off button is pushed, it locks into depressed mode, power come son, sound comes out. When the on/off button is pressed a second time, it does NOT unlock and pop out, power is NOT turned off.

I can fix that, I’m sure, but for now, it powers off via the master power-bar on my desk each night, along with the scanner, mug-warmer, desk-light, monitor and the rest of them.

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