I basically re-assembled the 1st great sounding stereo I owned. My dad bought me a Marantz receiver, JBL speakers, Akai turntable, and Marantz tape deck for my 18th birthday in 1981. I loved the way it sounded and put a similar system together for the bedroom. The Toshiba comes remarkably close (in this system) to reproducing that classic "West Coast" sound of the 70's and early '80's that so many of us grew up on. Rock on!