Wondering what kind of sound systems you all have.
Mine'30 couple years old, works great, I enjoy listening to HD radio. <== (and there is no monthly fee)
Equipment: Kenwood receiver KR-V6020, Kenwood CD player DP-1520, Kenwood Cassette Deck KX-2520, Panasonic DVD/CD player DVD-RV32, AUVIO HD Radio Receiver, Presidian 4 head VCR/DVD combo
Speakers: Electro-voice 10" 2 way, Marantz Imperial 6 12" 2 way ported, All collected over the years, these are large cabinet speakers. I guess you would call them "Old School Vintage speakers" You may notice some old names, The Electro-Voice & Marantz are at-least 40+ years old, they all work great together.
TV equipment: Samsung 65 inch, Hooked up to RCA Receiver STAV-3970, SONY 5 disk changer, HDMI receiver for security camera access, Fisher 15' 4 way speakers
Let's see what you all have.
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It actually sounds pretty good (for my use anyway. I am no audiophile, hell after a decade around aircraft and 3x that around power saws its a wonder I can hear at all)
Pre/Pro: Outlaw Audio 970 I'm likely going to upgrade to the 975 since it adds HDMI. I got this before HDMI was supported. It hasn't been a big deal since my BD audio uses digital optical inputs, but HDMI will make switching multiple sources easier.
Amp: Outlaw Audio 7500 Just a big honkin' 80lb monolith. 5 channels w/ balanced inputs and 200 Watts per channel. Plenty of headroom - more power than I need.
Surround: Klipsch RS-62 Unfortunately these aren't timber matched to my front. The RS-7 would have been the matching speaker. These are the next generation that replaced the RS-7.
BD Player: Sony Blu-Ray. Nothing fancy. Just a mid-range player I got at Best Buy. I'm considering upgrading to an Oppo when the Sony dies.
Oh, and everything gets power through an APC H15 Power Conditioner. This one needs to be replaced with one with a battery backup, though. Technically this doesn't have the capacity to power my amp, but I've never driven the amp hard enough to task the APC, so I'm not too concerned. I will get a larger unit when I upgrade to one with battery backup, though.
No sub - yet. The matching sub, Klipsch RSW-15, has been discontinued for several years and is hard to find and very expensive when you do find one used. My other choice was the Epik Conquest. Also discontinued. This isn't my setup, but this is what it would look like compared to my front and center speakers: Needless to say, I need to move way out in the country before I can enjoy a sub like that.
Kind of like cars - the setup is never really "finished" is it? One day I'd like to get a 2-channel setup with some Klipsch Heritage speakers, either Klipschorns or Belle Klipsch most likely. I'll want a larger house with a dedicated listening room for that. Nowhere to put it in my current house.
Side note: Outlaw Audio is an online-only retailer. US based, but the farm out their manufacturing. My Front and Center speakers were made in Hope, AK, but the surrounds were made in China, unfortunately. They were the closest I could find to match my front speakers.
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Mine though I don't have it hooked up in the rental I'm in now. Once we get the homestead up and running I'm going to build a standalone solar system dedicated solely to running this theater.
Ancient Kenwood KR-V85R, audio video stereo receiver. A pair of towers that consist of dual Dayton 10"s, a 5" Pioneer mid and a 3" Dynaco tweeter. I have some Peerless "chambered" mids that had the surrounds replaced, that are going back in when I have the time.
These things started out as Olson Electronics towers about 30 years ago. After I scattered all the cheesy Olson components (in very short order, I might add) I stuffed the cabinets with components that were recommended by an audiophile friend of mine (The Peerless mids and Dynaco tweeters.) The original woofers came from Optimus T200 towers. After the surrounds deteriorated, I ordered some replacements from Audio Lab. The most recent replacements (since our dog ate one of the woofers, which were long out of production) were ordered from Parts Express. Took me two years to find woofers that had T-S parameters suitable for the cabinets. They still sound decent.
The television is piped through the system, as well as the cheap CD/DVD player that we use, and the Xfinity decoder. Occasionally, we'll run the iPod through the system. Not really great quality, but it works just fine. I used to have all of the sources looped through a DBX 119, but it got to be too complex for my wife to operate, just to watch television.
This is what the speakers look like.
Edit - I also have an old Sansui AU-111 tube amp. Last time it was turned on it worked fine, except for some scratchy controls. Probably needs all the capacitors replaced, by now.
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Studio monitors with a twelve, 10 and a big ass horn.
I have a really old pair of Optimus 12's with the mid cut that I use for lower to mid volume listening.
I ordered one of those 1/8 stereo plug to RCA connections to run my digital player into the stereo. Seams I would rather put a disc in than screw with the menu so I haven't used it yet.
My home audio system uses a Pioneer receiver, and a 2.1 channel speaker setup. The main speakers are a pair of Fosgate Audionics FA52.0. The subwoofer is a homemade enclosure with an Adire Shiva 12" dual voice coil sub and a 250 Watt plate amp.
Unfortunately, I don't think the Fosgate or Adire speakers are in production anymore.
I used to have a CD changer, DVD player, VCR, etc. But all that stuff got replaced by an Xbox 360 and a USB thumb drive. My whole music collection is copied onto the thumb drive. No shuffling discs! Plus, the game console can play CD / DVD discs, streaming video, etc.
For hi-fi I have self designed dipoles driven by eight channels of Adcom (50w/driver). That's fed from a four way Riley-Linkwitz Butterworth squared crossover with phase alignment and driver equalization. Premp goes between a Sanyo C50 or Adcom 500. Sub is a modified KLH 12" (the wife wasn't thrilled about my dipole sub so I had to compromise. )
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[ Needless to say, I need to move way out in the country before I can enjoy a sub like that.
You'd be surprised, I have 2x 18" subwoofers and a 6000W amp that i've been working on. They will make the ground feel like jello, but yet cannot be heard outside the confines of the house. If you do it right, there won't be any issue.
You'd be surprised, I have 2x 18" subwoofers and a 6000W amp that i've been working on. They will make the ground feel like jello, but yet cannot be heard outside the confines of the house. If you do it right, there won't be any issue.
Well, I must not be doing it right, because my system already can shake my neighbor's house. I need vibration isolation more than anything.
Well, I must not be doing it right, because my system already can shake my neighbor's house. I need vibration isolation more than anything.
LOL, reminds me of the system I built when I lived at my parents house in Cali. We were on 3/4's of an acre and my Aunt and Uncle lived on 1 acre right behind us. I built a sub cabinet with a single 12" dual coil woofer and a couple of satelite speakers with a 5.25" and a 1" soft dome tweeter. It sounded really good in my bedroom... But my Aunt called my Mom complaining because it vibrated her windows.
Pro-Ject Debut III Turntable with Acrylic platter upgrade:
Audio Technica AT440MLa Cartridge:
Panamax M5400PM Power Conditioner:
Panasonic BD(Something)85:
Plus a Toshiba 55" LED TV and a Roku HD player.
I'm planning on replacing the Panasonic with a Yamaha Aventage BD player, if I can get one before they're gone, and I have an Onyx A120 amp that I may swap in for the Arcam, but I'll have to get an outboard phono preamp to make it all work.
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Heh. I have an LG soundbar with a sub. It sounds great! I never liked surround sound and I never even get my soundbar higher than 3/4 volume. Y'all are nuts.
I was in heaven when the first 8-track cartridge recorders came along!
I still have my old Pioneer Super Tuner am/fm 8 track round dial car stereo I think I have an unopened BTO and a Sister Sledge around someplace too. Sadly the rest are gone and no longer have a player for the house............
Heh. I have an LG soundbar with a sub. It sounds great! I never liked surround sound and I never even get my soundbar higher than 3/4 volume. Y'all are nuts.
Huh? What's that? I can't hear you over this ridiculously loud action movie I'm watching.
I still have my old Pioneer Super Tuner am/fm 8 track round dial car stereo I think I have an unopened BTO and a Sister Sledge around someplace too. Sadly the rest are gone and no longer have a player for the house............
Wow! That takes me back. I have a couple of the old quadraphonic receivers for some reason. Not sure why! I need to clean stuff out at some point.
Heh. I have an LG soundbar with a sub. It sounds great! I never liked surround sound and I never even get my soundbar higher than 3/4 volume. Y'all are nuts.
I've got one of these as well. It's nice for what it is, though I have large rooms and I wish it had more volume.
Yamaha P-350 Turntable to A-960 Integrated Amp, Kef 104 aB speakers. Currently "buried" in a storage room.
Advent Model 300 receiver powering some old Realistic speakers I bought for my son about 15 years ago in the living room, switched for cassette, CD, Satellite radio, etc.
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Sansui AU-7900 integrated amp, Sansui TU-7900 tuner, Bang & Olufsen 1900 turntable, 2 pairs of Bang & Olufsen S-60 loudspeakers, a pair of Bang & Olufsen Red Line 30 speakers. And a B&O S-45 for a center channel if I hook up a surround receiver. El Cheapo DVD player.
Sansui AU-7900 integrated amp, Sansui TU-7900 tuner, Bang & Olufsen 1900 turntable, 2 pairs of Bang & Olufsen S-60 loudspeakers, a pair of Bang & Olufsen Red Line 30 speakers. And a B&O S-45 for a center channel if I hook up a surround receiver. El Cheapo DVD player.
For hi-fi I have self designed dipoles driven by eight channels of Adcom (50w/driver). That's fed from a four way Riley-Linkwitz Butterworth squared crossover with phase alignment and driver equalization. Premp goes between a Sanyo C50 or Adcom 500. Sub is a modified KLH 12" (the wife wasn't thrilled about my dipole sub so I had to compromise. )
Nice work! Are those active crossovers? Now you need to self design an equipment rack.
The original? The Walkman II? I had a WII, it was a great thing to have, walking to school. Loved it.
I have an original TPS-L2 and a WM-2 (both in good condition, carefully boxed up and put away for safe keeping) and a few others (that need to be thrown out). The TPS is a Japanese original (I found it at a garage sale for $20) and the WM-2 has the plastic battery case (that fit on your belt). Together, they're probably worth $300. I figure, in another 15 years (50 year anniversary of the first) the TPS will be worth better than a grand. Won't be a bad investment by then.
I didn't walk to school after 7th grade. I...had....a moped! (Not one of these new fangled, feet on floorboards, push button start, 150cc scooters. I had a Motobecane you actually had to pedal to start with a 49cc motor (anything larger required a license). Modified it to go.................................45 mph!! Whoo-hoo!) Looked like this but blue.
Nice work! Are those active crossovers? Now you need to self design an equipment rack.
Thanks! All active. Each driver has 50W behind it. The crossovers/equalizers are in the thin box just above the amp stack. No rack. It took me a long time to get it down to the size as it is. The cabling behind it is pretty gnarly even with the bundling. My previous speakers had the crossovers and amps in the base of the speaker but there isn't a practical way to do it with dipoles unless I put a sub in the bottom of each. I didn't want the enclosure under it.
You should have seen my dipole sub. 8 -2" drivers on a 4x8 panel. Free-air. Marriage killer too. I had to go back to a single sub but it's plenty. I gutted the electronics and redid the crossover and equalization. I'll dig up some pics of it.
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Mine has evolved a bit, but has kind of "reverted" to something like I had before. Instead of the KRV-86R (which is sidelined for repairs), I now have a KRV-107R (100 WPC). We have a Sony CD/DVD changer and a single play Sony CD/DVD. I dragged my old Technics SL220 semi-auto out of mothballs, and it now sits on my stereo shelf. I also use the iPod fairly frequently, but use CDA instead of MP3s. I still have my "made in the image of T200s" towers. I also have a set of Minimus 7s wired out to the deck.
The TV is still interconnected to the system, so that we can watch DVDs, or just have good audio while watching the news. I'll post some pics later.
I have a bunch of old stereo equipment, and am currently searching for a piece I had when I was still a student. Kind of an off brand (Olson RA740), so it's going to take a while. I have several other Olson pieces.
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Homebrew HTPC: Ryzen CPU AsRock MoBo Antec case Kodi on Debian
Running through a Denon 5.1 reciever to a Samsung TV/monitor.
All of my music is on a homebilt server running Debian and Raid1.
Almost everything in my house responds to voice commands
Hah! That little box guitar is awesome! Does it use normal strings and tune as other guitars, or is there something more unique about it? That is such a cool little thing!
Hah! That little box guitar is awesome! Does it use normal strings and tune as other guitars, or is there something more unique about it? That is such a cool little thing!
Back in 1969 my parents purchased a Philco wood-cabinet stereo....It was actually "Danish modern" style- not "Victorian"...I would lay between the speakers and listen to my music often.
At first, I started listening to the Partridge Family....by 1973 I was listening to the Beatles and Elton John...Then in 1975 I started to listen to Queen, and they would become my favorite.
Around 1983, my father gave me that old stereo- the record player had died, so I went to Macy's and found a top-loader CD player (Magnavox) with controls & read-out visible from above....My father refinished the cabinet- and modified it to fit the CD player and the receiver (Kenwood) that I had selected...I found some very efficient speakers also....we boxed in the speakers at each end of the cabinet for better stereo response/definition.
One of the things I did not like was the slates over the speakers- so we eliminated them and just continued the single wood bar across the speaker openings.
A co-worker at NAS Alameda who owned a $10,000 stereo setup told me "You can't just slap stuff together- companies spend MILLIONS to integrate stereo components properly!" Years later he came by during the base-closure and spotted the stereo- so I put on "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd...he kneeled down between the speakers, listening- after a few minutes, he looked up, and stated (Astonished) "This sounds as good as my stereo!" (I did read the instructions on the different components (Yes, I know- I need to turn in my "man-card")
Even funnier though, my cross-hall neighbor at the time was a bit of an idiot...when she learned my stereo was gone (While my father did the cabinet work at his house) She started playing her music every evening, really loud- especially Boz Skaggs- which I dislike...The day I took delivery of the restored stereo, she came home and cranked her stereo up- So I put on "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth, then turned it up to "8" and went in the kitchen and covered my ears; For those who don't know, the main lyric in "Hair of the Dog" is "Now you're messin' with a...a Son of a ***** !" The apartment building was shaking!
After that, she NEVER played her music loud again
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Been collecting and repairing late 80's/early 90's Sony ES gear for years.
Top to bottom:
Sony WM-DD11 Walkman Sony D-132CK Discman Sony PS-X600 turntable Sony DTC-75ES DAT tape deck Sony MDP-700 Laserdisc Sony ST-S730ES AM/FM Radio Tuner Sony TC-WR901ES tape deck Sony CDP-C85ES CD player Bose 901 Series IV Equalizer Sony TA-E9000ES AV Control Amplifier Sony N9000ES Amplifier
Not pictured to the left: Sony Bravia A80L 4K OLED TV 55" Two Bose 901 speakers Two Sony SL-HF900 Sony Super Betamax VCR's Two Sony SLV-R1000 Super VHS VCR's Sony MDS-JE700 Minidsk Sony PS5
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