gandmjl
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| I feel it is time to upgrade my 1977 system....... I bought my system back around the same time, 1976-77 and the Altec 19s have remained quite solid for many years. I did have the driver freshened up at GPA and I did have the XOs recapped by a friend who knows electronics. Basically just new upgra... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? A now deceased friend who was very wealthy built a gorgeous home and began setting up a very fine system with MacIntosh pushing the power. I don't remember all the peripherals but it certainly was big bucks all the way. He was never happy and ask... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Your system and the music you play on it can be the very best money can buy and still fall very short if your room acoustics suck. Over the many years that I spent chasing the best sound the one and only real lesson I learned was to get your liste... | |
| If you had to narrow your choices to 4 - 5 speakers I digress. My listening pleasure comes from both hearing the music as well as feeling it. A product of my intro to good tunes back in the early 1970s and I prefer it loud with a punch. I have upgraded integral pieces of my system right along but h... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? My favorite CD is Glenn Frey "Solo Collection" I'll get slammed for this one but the very best I have ever heard through my system is Patricia Barber, "Cafe Blue" but on super audio CD. I have it on a regular CD but the SACD brings out so much mo... | |
| Anything more resolving than 65 year-old speakers? Room size and acoustics has as much to do with it as the speakers themselves. Back in the early 70s after attending the Woodstock Festival I was impressed with Altec. Not the ginormous ones at the festival but Altec produced a bunch of residentia... | |
| What's it worth? Thanks NK, I have a number in mind for all the stuff and based on sales I can find. I do agree taking the refusal to ship detracts from the value. PD121, all original with plastic dust cover and a protective cloth cover from Digital Deck Covers a... | |
| What's it worth? Yes, I still have the Luxman but still have not determined it's value. I am open to offers but I refuse to ship it so it would have to be picked up here or near where I live. Tri States where NY, NJ and PA touch, Port Jervis, Middletown or Montice... | |
| Best Rocking Speakers 15K and Under Old school speakers and matching with modern decor is and always will be an issue. In my previous post I stated my love for the old school Altec VOTs and the Model 19 home version of them. Yes, they do not have the "Look" most of us these days can... | |
| Best Rocking Speakers 15K and Under Back in 1969 I went to a concert up in Bethel, NY and there were between 300-500K people there. Towers of speakers all over the field and they all said Voice of the Theater. After Vietnam I was setting up my system and had to have hard rocking spe... | |
| Neil Young - Guitarist Neil Young's guitar ability is severely hampered by his political views.We saw CSN&Y at Bethel Woods some years back and the group was still quite good and in tune with each other. Sadly toward the end Neil Young began with his political tirad... | |
| What's it worth? I have no doubt you guys are all giving me good advice and the Luxman is the one to keep. I'm just thinking it would be better served in the hands and ears of those who could appreciate the differences. All of my albums are from the music of my da... | |
| What's it worth? Thanks Andy, that gives me some ball park numbers to work off. I wish I could remember what I paid for it new but all I know is it was quite a chunk with the AU 320 step up and DL 103 all installed at the shop and I want to say somewhere between 1... | |
| What's it worth? I can't disagree CZ but there comes a time when the ears start going and you just can't hear the difference between good and better. The SL1200 is no slouch with a decent cartridge.Figure value at 60% of what? The Lux was bought back in the mid to... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? WOW! Reading through all of this, the parts I can understand anyway, I am well aware I am way out of touch these days.All of my gear is from what I called the "Golden Age" when I mustered out of the USN after Vietnam. With my pockets somewhat full... |