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Ok I'll start it off. I am thankful for the Beveridge 2's that Provide so much listening enjoyment! Listening to Horowitz on R2R now! I am thankful for the magic much of this gear has played with appropriate software. I am also thankful for reel to reel which is really providing magic for me these days!
My list would be terribly long because I am consistently amazed how right much of this old gear sounded.
I have enjoyed early JBL Hartsfields, Paragon, C-34's (something about their midrange was amazing. EV Patricians were also amazing in their own way and many others.
Thankful for the Magnepan Tympani's. Still have a pair of beater T-3'sb top panels that also have magic. Quads, Acoustats (want to try 2+2's), Bozak's.
Many Others!!
What are you Thankful for!
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I use a pair of Hafler DH120's with my Merlins. Those amps have bested a large group of other amps I've tried, including tubes and modern amps.
Amazing clear strong sound.
The amps are used to bi-amp horisontally one (pentode mode) does bass and mids, and the other treble (triode mode).
The 1970s spherical speakers I still use, no low-pass and odd order high-pass (plus Eq) using film caps and air core coils way back then.
Tuner is a 'once-was' simulcast valve rcvr, power amps off. Foster Seeley front-end with an SS MPX decoder. Wide audio bandwidth AM with a tight notch whistle filter.
Thorens TD150 TT and SME arm with damper pot and paddles. Nagaoka metal loaded dished rubber mat (Disk_MAT SE22) and GB screw-down clamp. GB used to make a special clamp and mounting for Decca cartridges.
AWE / VSE Four Valve Pre-amp in a QUAD22 box, rebuilt and modded twice. It's on its third and even bigger modern remote PSU, regulated DC and HT.
Next phase will use two pairs of the large spheres above and below a single small sphere carrying a Manger wide-range driver. Point-source array in steel rod frames - triangular in plan view. Three uprights and a triangle per sphere with a circle welded in. Middle circle will be movable back and forth.
The pentode mode amp will do bass only ( <170Hz) and the other in UL will do the rest, using 3rd order semi-active line-level crossovers. ? PLL input filters at the RCA sockets after a blue-printed Nakamichi EC100.
Active third octave eq for the bass.
DSP room Eq ..... eventually / maybe? I'll be a busy bee during the allowed return period, eh? ;-)
Both the other systems in the house are vintage - see profile.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
My 1972 Linn Sondek LP-12 and my Spendor BC-1's. Both have been instrumental in my enjoyment of music since I bought them. By extension I have to add my record collection, which numbers in the thousands.
Dave
brings me constant joy and amazement
Edits: 12/01/15
McIntosh Tuners - MR-74 & 77
Quad ESL speakers - esp the '57s in my bedroom
Happy Listening
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
They look a lot like that - but I ended up with a different Pin-up Girl- Chestnut hair is more to my liking...
Happy Listening
I am thankful for my Hafler DH 500. Hard to find such a clean amp with soooooo much punch. Also my Furman TX-4 crossover. Incredibly tunable and easy to use in any configuration.
They're getting old, but still bring me a lot of pleasure.
"You won't come back from Fletcher-Munson curve"-Jan and Dean
I'll second that. I am very thankful that my hearing is good enough to enjoy good sound.
Dave
Just happened to be thinking the same "thankful" thoughts last night. I was lucky to get a very special pair of Marantz Model 9's a few months ago. They had been on my bucket list for awhile and was waiting for the right time/right pair to come along and low and behold "Tah Dah".
btw, this is NOT their normal resting place.
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Some of my treasured antiques..
Still spinnin'...
;^)
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Electrostatics make excellent front HT speakers, as you know. For a while I used a pair of Martin Logan Arius....and now I have a pair of Spectra 11 in the front. Of the ESLs I have, 2+2, 1+1, ML Arius....the 11s are my favorite speaker for all I listen too. I'd love to hear the 2+2s on the HT, but they're in a different room, and not going anywhere.
side note: I rarely use my HT system....maybe three times a year
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
the 11s are my favorite speaker for all I listen too. I'd love to hear the 2+2s on the HT, but they're in a different room, and not going anywhere.
Agree. I ran 2+2s in the main system for twenty plus years and am quite familiar with them. Their chief advantages over the 1+1 are increased sensitivity and better low end response. On the other hand, they beam horribly and are less suited for covering multiple seating positions. I use a 300 watt / channel Emotiva amp in the HT and high pass the 1+1s at 80 hz to dual subs to address their compromises.
I rarely use my HT system....maybe three times a year
Wifey is an avid videophile (it's really her system!) so ours gets daily usage. She always has crawlers adding content to the DVR and both of us are movie buffs. We were just watching the Downton Abbey sixth season preview special last night.
I can also stream content from the music server via the Oppo 103. Which works great since the dipole radiation also feeds the kitchen and office behind them. :)
2+2's and a Velodyne UDL-18 sub, driven by a Nakamichi stack (Stasis amp)was the high end system at Audio Associates when I worked there. It was very impressive with incredible dynamics. Full orchestra was something else. The Telarc of Saint-Saens Organ Symphony (No. 3)with Eugene Ormandy conduction and organist Michael Murray was one of my favorite demo discs. Another was the Telarc of Alexander Nevsky with Andre Previn conducting. I particularly liked the Battle on Ice. Both are excellent performances and recordings that demonstrated the full dynamic range and bandwidth that this system was capable of. When someone came into the store saying that they could not hear the difference with a good stereo, I would take them in to hear this system. Not one of them made that claim after hearing this system.
Dave
Some things have been added, but the speakers and amps still sit as seen here. One of the 1+1s needs a cleaning (hopefully). It snaps lightly. I bought those 15 years ago and have yet to use them. The 2+2s have been the main speaker in this room for about 15 years. The Polk SDAs in the corner are now underutilized as rears for a HT system that doesn't get used.
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"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
Marantz 2010 receiver
Magnavox CDB460 CD player
AR The Turntable
Sansui TU7700 tuner
Dynaco A10 speakers
EPI 70C speakers
ADS L10 speakers
ROR E3 studio monitors
ROR prototype mini monitors
EV SP8C full range drivers
EPI 1" concave tweeters
1960 Jensen P12R Alnico speaker
Is the Technics SL-1200 Mk2 turntable I use for vinyl input considered vintage? Probably not and the Alesis Masterlink 9600 is definitely not vintage.
just maybe not here.
The definition is rather vague but most everyone here seems to
inherently agree as to what vintage equipment is, if maybe not
what it "really" is.
For me nothing post say, 1980, is vintage, though it really is.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Fisher 500TX paired with Fisher XP7B speakers(they work for me) I think Fisher knew what they were doing when they paired these components together back when I bought them in 1971. I also enjoy my Fisher 800B tube receiver from 1962. I have a Sansui 9090DB receiver that works well but I just love that early fisher sound.
Otari and Teac R2Rs, Nakamichi BX-300, Empire and Lenco turntables (tho the Lenco's designers wouldn't recognize it), Grace F9E cartridge.
My "new" Heathkit system: SP2 preamp and W5M monos. Sounds amazing!
I am thankful for the Fisher 800 B that I hope to have restored some day!
I am also thankful for my Yamaha CR 620 Receiver!But what I am most thankful for is my new Hearing Aids as I can now hear music again & notice the difference in sound quality of speakers,better then I could for the last 6 7 years!So far I am only keeping Speakers that I can listen too for long periods of time,whether I have my Hearing Aids on or off!Which means a lot of speakers I acquired over the years are going to be gotten rid of!
~!
The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
nt
though some of the other components are gaining on it!
Yes, a pre-amp joke for Thanksgiving...
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Vintage pair of KLH Sixes purchased back in 1972 after reading an equipment reports by High Fidelity Magazine - H.H. Labs, June 1960. Great performance vs value. The cloth surrounds will never crumble. The Sixes were one of the best two-way loudspeakers ever designed by Henry Kloss. Plus super cartridge ADC ZLM.
Edits: 11/26/15
My Sherwood S-5000 that a friend gave me. best piece of audio I've ever had.
If you want me to go over the stuff I let go - that's a prozac moment.
I'm thankful for SEAS, Marantz, Rotel, Scott, Dual, Thorens, Revox, KLH and so many more. I have been blessed to pick up a lot of them over the years. Some of them I got new, but now are vintage!
Mostly though, I am thankful for all the nice people I have met through the asylum and all the good help I have received and given to help keep them all running.
Blessings to all of you for a happy turkey day.
John
I'm thankful for the Realistic STA-77 I picked up yesterday in great condition, a little formby's and 10 minutes of elbow grease and it should look close to new. It puts out just 16wpc but with the speakers I am pairing it with it should be a nice match for an interim receiver in the living room.
Edits: 11/26/15
My two McIntosh MR77's and newly-acquired Crown SX824 RTR.
Jim
http://jimtranr.com
I'm thankful every day that I have a pair of Quad ESL's with WPK rebuilt panels. 'Hard to go back to anything else.
Still on my list is a nice little tube amp to run them -- right now all I've got is sand amps...:-(
In 1978, my first year in the audio biz, all of these components were current products that I sold.
Yamaha CA-410II
Yamaha CT-410II
Nakamichi 480
ADS L300
The nostalgia of it all is almost as much fun as the music it makes.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Dean,
When did your garage system move inside ?
My Acoustic Research AR9 loudspeakers. Endless enjoyment listening to them since purchased new about 1980.
My '79 Klipsch LaScala's and '77 Klipsch Heresy. Remember to use coffee filters when changing your tubes as they have no lint and fingerprints are bad for tubes.
Klipsch so much it Hz
The fingerprint thing is a myth.
If you mean gear that I have now, it would be my McIntosh MR-77, Fried Betas, and Marantz 26 receiver (tuner feeds Aux input)that drives them sweetly. Had it on the other night with company present and they all remarked about it.
Happy Thanksgiving throughout the wards! Skip the meds and spin the discs.
My 1968 Super Reverb. 1992 Les Paul Standard.
8^)
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