My First Stereo Revival (Ep two) - Realistic STA 64 Receiver / Nova 4 Speakers

A 40 year audio journey back in time.
I feel like I have come a long way over the last 40 years building the audio system I have today for listening to the music I love. I also think the path of what I think good audio is was set for me when I was a little kid. I grew up in a time (1970's) when my two older brothers and a sister either had themselves or had friends that had top of the line audio systems of the day. Always one upping one another.
I caught the fever a very young age and I had to build my own audio system. With help from those people and with what I could beg, borrow or work for at the end of the Summer of 1980 I bought my first real piece of audio equipment from a friend who had already moved on to much bigger and better. The Realistic STA 64 Receiver was almost two years old at the time. I just turned 12 years old that month. The journey had begun.
Not having that stereo today a new journey has begun to rebuild my first stereo system and compare it to what I have 40 years later to see if and what has changed over the years for me.
(Ep two)
We finish the many repairs to the Realistic STA-64 stereo receiver. From simple cleanings to refinishing the Walnut case they are all done and this thing looks awesome. Matching it up to a set of Infinity RSa's speakers its time to give it "for real" a test drive.
We also get into a little side project that also has a connection to the Realistic STA-64 receiver. Upgrades all around to a set (2) of 1976 Realistic Nova-4 speakers. Infinity crossovers, Pyle woofers, new horn tweeters. Just killing time while waiting on the receiver project things to finish.
Before this video is over we will revisit days long gone past. You will have to watch to find out if they were good or bad days. We set the parameters of and do an honest review of the first steps of our rebuild at the end with the next direction we need to head in.