[Funnehaha]

Fellow sentients,

  I recently helped a friend go through an older gentleman's apartment, who recently entered a nursing home. The apartment has to be cleaned out, and he was a pack rat, so it will be quite a job. Whatever.

  He has a couple of 1970s-era speakers hooked up to a Wintec stereo receiver. The receiver is very nice looking, reminiscent of Yamaha's CR-series, and the AM and FM sounds okay through the speakers, though I have not tested it with any ancillary equipment, yet.

  I've done a little "Wintec" name-surfing for further information on the brand, but haven't been too successful. I seem to remember seeing Wintec stuff in local Minneapolis stereo shops during the 1970s, places like Schaak's or Sound of Music [now Best Buy] or Sound Environment or HiFiSound or Audio King or.....

  Does anybody here have any recollections/experience with this brand?

Fun E.

[RDavidson]

I have no personal experience. Have you read this?
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-89406.html

Sounds like they were well-built, highish quality pieces of gear.......which may be rather rare. Very cool find.

[Funnehaha]

Thanks. That's very interesting. I'll have to check the model number and maybe take some photos.

If anybody has photos of their models, that would be helpful too....?

[PMAT]

. Open the hood and take pics of the guts too. This would be useful for others in the future. They sound interesting.