Yes, it can be done ...
I once had a bedroom system that consisted of a Fisher 500 receiver that I bought at a garage sale. A Radio Shack 5-disc CD player. A pair of N. E. A. R. speakers. Stands for the speakers. And hooked up with Radio Shack wire.
Cost for the entire system?
Receiver = $65.00
CD Player = $200.00
Speakers = $400.00 (traded a preamp straight across for the speakers. I paid $200 for the preamp).
Stands = $100.00. They were nice metal stands. I bought them from a friend.
Wire = Nothing. I already had them in storage.
The receiver was in near-mint condition. The sound was really ... really good. If I had to do it over today, I wouldn’t have bought the Radio Shack CD player. While a good player, one can do better today shopping eBay for a good, used higher-end DVD player.
So, I made $200.00 on the speaker trade, so that has to be deducted from the total cost. That brings the overall cost of this little killer bedroom system to $365.00.
Frank
I once had a bedroom system that consisted of a Fisher 500 receiver that I bought at a garage sale. A Radio Shack 5-disc CD player. A pair of N. E. A. R. speakers. Stands for the speakers. And hooked up with Radio Shack wire.
Cost for the entire system?
Receiver = $65.00
CD Player = $200.00
Speakers = $400.00 (traded a preamp straight across for the speakers. I paid $200 for the preamp).
Stands = $100.00. They were nice metal stands. I bought them from a friend.
Wire = Nothing. I already had them in storage.
The receiver was in near-mint condition. The sound was really ... really good. If I had to do it over today, I wouldn’t have bought the Radio Shack CD player. While a good player, one can do better today shopping eBay for a good, used higher-end DVD player.
So, I made $200.00 on the speaker trade, so that has to be deducted from the total cost. That brings the overall cost of this little killer bedroom system to $365.00.
Frank