Yesterday's projects continue. I've got all the components repositioned, cleaned up, cables untangled and reconnected, and the room already feels so much better. After this here little break I'll test everything to make sure I've got it all back together properly. This was long overdue.
I even oiled the furniture -- a wonderful solid oak component rack bought at Rogersound Labs in 1982 -- which was even longer overdue. It's as beautiful as ever, and I also have a unique solid oak TV stand that held my "good" 25-inch "monitor" for over two decades and is still a great base for the flat-screen TV. Always loved the look of these and other oak pieces. Perhaps some photographic evidence is in order.
I loved Rogersound for the unique store-designed/branded items they carried, and for their "affordable mid-high end" philosophy in the electronics they carried. At least that's how I perceived it then. They were also a little like the original Trader Joe's in how they'd acquire a quantity of some good but discontinued item from a manufacturer and offer it at bargain prices. That's how I got my first ever CD player in 1984 and first laserdisc player (a Luxman-branded Pioneer) in 1987. They also carried their own line of speakers which seemed to have a great reputation for some years, but I never got any. Ah, memories.
Edit: Rogersound Labs was a Southern California chain with probably no more than a dozen stores. They were big in the '70s and '80s, and the last time I was in a store a little after that, they had lost much of what set them apart, and I think shortly thereafter went out of business. I don't know what BK and others might have thought of them, but they were very good for me.
