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Came up in the humor thread...
Systems sure have changed over the years, from the 'Stereo Wars' (Power Winner Pioneer SX1980) of the 70's, to the latest home theater surround sound of today.
What ya got now, what did you have then, what did you never get that you always wanted ?
 
1970"s
Phase Linear component system
Thornes turntable
SpeakerLab Corner Horn speakers

1990's
Onkyo 7.2 receiver (died) and various cheap add-ons

Now
Arcam component system
Sonus Faber speakers
 
hey, my receiver seems to be dying. a 1996 NAD 701 . i need a new receiver for my workshop. any recommendations? i just have a cd player, and some small speakers.
 
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I had a Sansui system. When my parents larger than a corn freighter stereo finally died, I gave it to them so they could listen to their records. My brother has it now after we sold my parents home.
I currently have Yamaha with Bose speakers that I won in a sales context. I believe I still have the turntable around here somewhere, but not much use since I own no vinyl. I can’t recall when the last time was I bought a CD.
SF
 
Way back in the day worked at Chelsea Audio Video... Had all the cool stuff. Mark Levinson , Nakamichi, NAD, Proceed, B&W, Thiel, Quad, B&O, Velodyne etc.... Was a lot of fun and man did it make the music come alive....
 
Back in the late 70's we geared up with a Pioneer receiver/amp, a Technics turntable and later an Onkyo dual cassette player. The speakers were furniture-sized. All of that eventually found its way to Goodwill.

Now I run Kirkland 10 hearing aids and only listen to music when I am alone in the car.
 
Pioneer stuff back in the day. Now bluetooth hearing aids and also a Bose radio.
 
I run my Nuprime IDA-8, a Bluesound Node Streamer, and a pair of Elacs for speakers.
Have my CD player still, so between the streaming service and my CD's, there's more music than I'll ever get to.
 
I was curious what some of the vintage stuff goes for now. I did a quick Sansui search and some stuff came up on EBay. I’m not sure if these prices are realistic or belong in the PNWFF hilariously overpriced used items thread. 😉
SF

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Growing up, I had a toy robot that played 8 tracks, an old school tape recorder, a "ghetto blaster," and a cheesy component system with giant speakers that sucked.

I've been running mostly the same system since the mid-90s: Yamaha Receiver with Phase Tech bookshelf speakers. I used to have a nice, independently-powered Boston sub-woofer to take a lot of the bass, letting the small speakers shine on the high end, but that mysteriously disappeared a few years ago, so now it's just the shelf speakers. I had a cool Bang & Olufsen automatic turntable that must have been from the 70s or 80s, but my kids broke it about 15 years ago. Now I have a cheesy Sony that does the job, but I want a new turntable. I also had my dad's old reel to reel tape recorder for a few years after college, but it got hard moving around with it, so I gave it up.

My stuff is old. Still very functional, but I have been thinking about buying a new system that gives me good performance for my old format stuff and supports all the newfangled stuff, too. If I could quit blowing all my disposable income on fishing trips, I could probably make it happen....
 
Vintage Hi-Fi is its own niche genre...lots of folks into this, as I follow it a bit.
Re capping the old recievers and bringing them back to spec is a big deal in some circles.
Look up the price of a Pioneer SX 1980....fully recapped and restored to spec.
Mind boggling
 
Mossback said:
Vintage Hi-Fi is its own niche genre...lots of folks into this, as I follow it a bit.
Re capping the old recievers and bringing them back to spec is a big deal in some circles.
Look up the price of a Pioneet SX 1980....fully recapped and restored to spec.
Mind boggling
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Damn, those aren’t cheap! 😮
SF
 
I just went and looked at prices for my vintage equipment. YIKES!!!

I was a huge vinyl collector - over 1000 LP's. Vinyl fell out of favor when CD's came about. Did not sound the same for sure.

When Vinyl came back, I sold all of mine.. A number of them for over $1000 each.

Almost got into vacuum tube amps. Now glad I did not.
 
Garrard Zero 100c turntable hooked to a Sansui receiver (model?) using Epic tall boys for sound balanced out with a bass built in a friends cellar with used parts. Fortunate Son never sounded so good.
 
Kenwood and Speakerlabs back in the day, Sony since the mid '90's. Mostly I just listen in the car anymore, and the B and O system in the new Audi is the best sounding setup I've ever heard. Awesome.
 
Russell said:
Grew up with a NIKKO reciever, Tanberg reel to reel, Dual Turntable and some pretty good size speaker labs.
Dragged that turntable all over the country with me as well as a pretty good vinyl collection. Still have over 1K, maybe closer to 2, albums on vinyl and listen to music all over the house on different systems.
The most modern thing I have going is I recorded all of my CD's, 2k+, onto flac files and stream them from a network hard drive to any of several DAC's in system in the house. no need to have the CD's loaded into a player anymore.
Running currently
Quicksilver Audio tube Mono blocks, and tube preamp, Black Ice/Jolida tube DAC and Tube phono preamp a VPI Scout limited edition turntable and a Technics SP-15 with an EPA-100 tonearm. I'm streaming from the hard drive into it with a sonos connect. These are driving Klipsch Cornwalls.
In other systems in the house I have a Fisher 400 driving some AR 4a's and a 200wpc Dennon amp driving some JBL 100t3's
Kind of nerd out with the audio stuff and really enjoy sitting down and listening to vinyl.
Here is a link to a local to me shop selling vintage gear. fly hifi You can get a taste of vintage prices. I remember going to Magnolia hi fi and bringing CD's to try out the high end gear I could'nt afford as well as Hawthorns and speakerlab down in the U district and wishing I could afford some of the macintosh gear.
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Now we're talking, got a valve amp in the mix...
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Russell said:
Grew up with a NIKKO reciever, Tanberg reel to reel, Dual Turntable and some pretty good size speaker labs.
Dragged that turntable all over the country with me as well as a pretty good vinyl collection. Still have over 1K, maybe closer to 2, albums on vinyl and listen to music all over the house on different systems.
The most modern thing I have going is I recorded all of my CD's, 2k+, onto flac files and stream them from a network hard drive to any of several DAC's in system in the house. no need to have the CD's loaded into a player anymore.
Running currently
Quicksilver Audio tube Mono blocks, and tube preamp, Black Ice/Jolida tube DAC and Tube phono preamp a VPI Scout limited edition turntable and a Technics SP-15 with an EPA-100 tonearm. I'm streaming from the hard drive into it with a sonos connect. These are driving Klipsch Cornwalls.
In other systems in the house I have a Fisher 400 driving some AR 4a's and a 200wpc Dennon amp driving some JBL 100t3's
Kind of nerd out with the audio stuff and really enjoy sitting down and listening to vinyl.
Here is a link to a local to me shop selling vintage gear. fly hifi You can get a taste of vintage prices. I remember going to Magnolia hi fi and bringing CD's to try out the high end gear I could'nt afford as well as Hawthorns and speakerlab down in the U district and wishing I could afford some of the macintosh gear.
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Still have my Nikko NR615 receiver.......
 
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