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| What are the sexiest components ever made? I think small components are great looking, like those shoe box sized British integrated amps. The Meridian stuff was always great looking, also dig that Italian designed triangular shaped Yamaha cassette deck and Nakamichi made one as well. The... | |
| What did your system look like 30 years ago? McIntosh MC225 ampMusic Reference RM5 mkII preampPioneer TX9800 tunerRega Planar 3 TTNakamichi BX125 cassetteOnkyo DX530 cd playerPro Ac Studio 1 speakers on 20” filled Chicago spkr stands | |
| Help for an Old School Audiophile It is a time capsule, for sure. Russ, thanks for the advice, I’m getting that inclination as well as I just acquired a rare Ariston RD80SL turntable and have been enjoying spinning records again. | |
| Help for an Old School Audiophile Update: it’s 4 years later, I turned 60 a month ago, and the system has morphed into the following:Fleawatt preamphttp://fleawatt.blogspot.com/2020/10/kenny-burrell-5670-tube-buffered-volume.htmlFleawatt amphttp://fleawatt.blogspot.com/2020/10/st... | |
| Help for an Old School Audiophile Hi Mark,I have no idea, I’m too old school to answer this question. I hope someone else who is reading this can answer your question. That sounds like a nice system you have, hope you can get some guidance here. | |
| Warm, rich but detailed SS preamp (made you give up tubes) Museatex AVC1, beautiful spatial quality to it. I’ve had many different tube & SS combinations over nearly 40 years in this hobby, and if you don’t want a tube preamp, then try to find one of these. I’m sure there are many other SS preamps t... | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? I wish we were able to put likes & ❤️ Next to comments like FB.To update my list from the original thread:Dual 1225B&O RX with MMC5 cartridgeDenon DP-59L Rega Planar 3Kenwood KD5070Harman Kardon T45Thorens TD-125 mk II w/Rega RB303 armLinn... | |
| Do chinese tube preamp/amp clones interest you? Thank you all for the comments, political and apolitical, it has opened my eyes to things that I don’t think that much about.I owned an Audio Space EL84 mini int amp that was awesome and an EL34 GemTune GS-01 that was also very good that was proba... | |
| Which tubes are the best? The Psvane KT88 supposed to be very good, but I’ve heard the Gold Lion are the best KT88’s. The best 12ax7 is a 5751, that’s why cj always specs them in their preamps. | |
| Personal Preamp Evolution. Here’s my preamp/int amp/rec’r journey from 1984 to 2020:1. crown straight line 1 preamp2. Sansui AU7173. Luxman C120A preamp4. Acoustat TNP pre 5. Music reference RM5 mkII 6. Dyna PAS 25. Dynaco PAS 36. AMC CVT-30307. Mac 1900 Rec’r8. Mits... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Time to update:From beginning to present:78-81 Sound Research81-84 Smaller Advent Loudspeaker85-86 Jamo Compact 50's & 70's & Triad Subwoofer86-88 Mirage 660's.....(excellent)88-93 ProAc Studio 1 **1993 Celestion C7.....(excellent - gave t... | |
| Why is black so popular for components? That’s a great point! | |
| Why is black so popular for components? Yes, you guys are correct and I am colorblind. The NAD’s were brown. I have a later model an NAD 4300 tuner which turned gun metal gray I think and not as nice as the older brown.Funny how colors and cosmetics can be such a big thing!Anyone rememb... | |
| What are the best tuners each company has made, and how you started? +1 for the REL Precedent, it looks so awesome!grinnell, I have to take the fm tuner info site with a grain of sand sometimes. I use it for validation, but it’s not the end all / be all for tuners, IMHO.I say, if you like a tuner just get it and ch... | |
| Considering getting a CD player (again). Used? New? Criteria? I got a good deal from a friend on a Cambridge Audio Azur 840 CD player after my mint used $40 Rotel 855 went kaput. All I did was move the 855 into another room and then the laser stopped reading discs.The Azur 840 is very nice but seems very an... |