Absolutely love this post! Thanks for starting it Uberwaltz!
i am totally ashamed that I have a bunch of 70s gear in a closet I never use but nostalgia and sentiment will not let me depart with them. My original Dual 1019 Turntable I had in 1970, an old Thorens 125, am old Kenwood stone-base turntable, my Denon DL 103 I had in law school. And a bunch of (at least 12) pieces of old Marantz gear - mainly amps, tuners, I integrateds or receivers (solid state unfortunately rather than tubes). I also have a number of old Marantz cassette decks and a few old Reel-to-reel tape decks by Akai, Tascam and Teac,
Also in a box in MINT condition but not in current use is a Rotel Michigan RHT -10 tuner that this post may motivate me to bring out and use. I have a fabulous new rooftop antenna with a rotator I never installed too.
As far as the current pieces I have:
my Conrad-Johnson ART-3 line stage with ten NOS Telefunken CCa’s (love it to death)
SME 30 (not version 2) turntable with SME IV.vi arm
Lamm M1.1 Reference monoblock amps,
Silent Running Audio CRAZ triple with rankin white maple
Reimyo CD-77
(all of the above bought 15 years ago - the ART-I was bought then but upgraded by c-j in 2009j
my beloved Rockport Aquila loudspeakers bought I 2008 - unless I ever get a bigger room where I’d go to the Rockport Altair, I will die owning these fabulous transducers.
A set of Silverline SR-15 (circa 1993) that I am hoping to use in a second system soon),
and last but not least, due to my OCD addiction, the following headphone gear:
the fourth ever built 1998 Moth Audio s2A3 amp (original amp not the later integrated amp)
and from Eddie Current (Craig Uthis, the designer/owner of defunct Moth Audio):
** Eddie Current Studio Amp
** Eddie Current Balancing Act
** Eddie Current 445
** Eddie Current 2A3 MK.iv
** Eddie Current Zana Deux SE (OTL)
** Eddie Current Zana Deux ZDT
** Eddie Current Super 7
(if anyone has an Eddie Current Electra for sale, I will buy it)
** an Allnic HPA 3000
** an Allnic HPA-5009
plus and assortment of headphones (Focal Utopia, Audeze LCD-3: LCD-X; Sennheiser HD-800 and HD-650)
Planning on converting a small bedroom to a Headphone Room with all of the forgoing pieces of gear (plus a couple not mentioned) in use with various sources.
yes, I have an illness
Frank
i am totally ashamed that I have a bunch of 70s gear in a closet I never use but nostalgia and sentiment will not let me depart with them. My original Dual 1019 Turntable I had in 1970, an old Thorens 125, am old Kenwood stone-base turntable, my Denon DL 103 I had in law school. And a bunch of (at least 12) pieces of old Marantz gear - mainly amps, tuners, I integrateds or receivers (solid state unfortunately rather than tubes). I also have a number of old Marantz cassette decks and a few old Reel-to-reel tape decks by Akai, Tascam and Teac,
Also in a box in MINT condition but not in current use is a Rotel Michigan RHT -10 tuner that this post may motivate me to bring out and use. I have a fabulous new rooftop antenna with a rotator I never installed too.
As far as the current pieces I have:
my Conrad-Johnson ART-3 line stage with ten NOS Telefunken CCa’s (love it to death)
SME 30 (not version 2) turntable with SME IV.vi arm
Lamm M1.1 Reference monoblock amps,
Silent Running Audio CRAZ triple with rankin white maple
Reimyo CD-77
(all of the above bought 15 years ago - the ART-I was bought then but upgraded by c-j in 2009j
my beloved Rockport Aquila loudspeakers bought I 2008 - unless I ever get a bigger room where I’d go to the Rockport Altair, I will die owning these fabulous transducers.
A set of Silverline SR-15 (circa 1993) that I am hoping to use in a second system soon),
and last but not least, due to my OCD addiction, the following headphone gear:
the fourth ever built 1998 Moth Audio s2A3 amp (original amp not the later integrated amp)
and from Eddie Current (Craig Uthis, the designer/owner of defunct Moth Audio):
** Eddie Current Studio Amp
** Eddie Current Balancing Act
** Eddie Current 445
** Eddie Current 2A3 MK.iv
** Eddie Current Zana Deux SE (OTL)
** Eddie Current Zana Deux ZDT
** Eddie Current Super 7
(if anyone has an Eddie Current Electra for sale, I will buy it)
** an Allnic HPA 3000
** an Allnic HPA-5009
plus and assortment of headphones (Focal Utopia, Audeze LCD-3: LCD-X; Sennheiser HD-800 and HD-650)
Planning on converting a small bedroom to a Headphone Room with all of the forgoing pieces of gear (plus a couple not mentioned) in use with various sources.
yes, I have an illness
Frank