123c's Audio System Thread - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

123c · #1 10-04-2007, 11:19 AM

What home system do you have.
This is what I currently have:
Harman Kardon 330C receiver
Rectilinear III speakers
Inifinity SM62 speakers
Panasonic DVD player
Tivoli Model One Table radio (my Target clearance shelf find, $30) This is what I listen to most of the time.

Past Stuff:
Sansui G-6000
Harman Kardon 630 twin power
Bogen DB-212 tube amp
Harman Kardon FL3500 CD player
and a bunch of other stuff

cscmc1 · #2 10-04-2007, 11:35 AM

Bottlehead Foreplay tube pre
Yamaha active crossovers
Pass MiniAleph ss amp (which just replaced a Velez 300B SE amp)
AudioSource ss amp
Klipcsh K-horn bass cabinets w/K-33 drivers
Edgarhorn trachorns with Fostex fullrange drivers (crossed at 500hz)
Audax bullet tweets
Empire tt with Formula IV arm and Grado cartidge, custom battery-powered phono pre
various digital sources (Nakamichi and Prioneer at the moment)

Zeus · #3 10-04-2007, 11:47 AM

I can't compete with the heavy hitters, but my ears are very happy with the vintage system I have. 70s-era rack-mounted Marantz gear, in a matching cabinet. I've nicknamed the system 'Hal'...

Marantz 1180DC amp
Altec Lansing Model 14 speakers

Some pics (during my reno, just installed hardwood so kinda messy and no baseboards...)

cscmc1 · #4 10-04-2007, 11:54 AM

Nice, Zeus! I sold a pair of Model 14's a few months ago. Those were great speakers; I miss them! The old Marantz stuff still holds its own pretty darned well. A lot of that older solid state gear is just as musical (or more so) than the new receivers you can find at Best Buy and the like. I have an old Onkyo integrated amp that keeps up just fine with the new Pioneer A/V receiver in the TV room.

EDIT -- PS: nice job on the floors!

Zeus · #5 10-04-2007, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cscmc1

Nice, Zeus! I sold a pair of Model 14's a few months ago. Those were great speakers; I miss them! The old Marantz stuff still holds its own pretty darned well. A lot of that older solid state gear is just as musical (or more so) than the new receivers you can find at Best Buy and the like. I have an old Onkyo integrated amp that keeps up just fine with the new Pioneer A/V receiver in the TV room.

EDIT -- PS: nice job on the floors!

lol, thanks! I really enjoyed the hardwood part of the reno. I'd find some really long, nicely figured strips and keep them for select areas like hallways, etc.

I don't think I will ever sell this gear, even if I update to a more modern system in the future. My surround system for movies, etc. is just an out-of-the-box LG system. Does the job.

iwrock · #6 10-04-2007, 08:18 PM

My dads got some old Klipsch Horns that sound good...

Hes got an old McIntosh amp that literally weighs a ton....

Does that count?

cscmc1 · #7 10-04-2007, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by W124.090

My dads got some old Klipsch Horns that sound good...

Hes got an old McIntosh amp that literally weighs a ton....

Does that count?

Now you're talkin'! McIntosh stuff is fantastic... is it tube or solid state? I have owned several pieces of Mac gear; wish I'd kept it all, too!

Whiskeydan · #8 10-04-2007, 09:54 PM

Past system,
McIntosh C22 pre-amp
2x Altec 1570b mono tube pwr amp (811A transmitter tubes)http://www.triodeel.com/al1570b.gif
Alpha one MC cartridge

Quad ESLs, Maggies, Acoustats...

Current system at home is a pr of "thrift store find" vintage Jensen TF-4 spkrs. Very nice for the $15 I paid.
A modified Sherwood AV receiver and a homebrew powered sub.

Acoustats are at the cabin.

Big system is a custom built Line Array consisting of 12 boxes of 10" drivers(100-1Khz), 2" P-audio covering 1K-20K(JBL copies) and four LAB subs (27-100hz folded horns) per side, about 12KW of QSC power amps, DBX driverack processing and a bunch of other expensive junk that is too heavy for me to be lugging these days.
I have to say that my outdoor PA sounds as good as any hi-fi stuff anyone has ever heard. Must be the man behind the curtain.

cscmc1 · #9 10-05-2007, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Whiskeydan

Past system,
McIntosh C22 pre-amp
2x Altec 1570b mono tube pwr amp (811A transmitter tubes)http://www.triodeel.com/al1570b.gif
Alpha one MC cartridge

Quad ESLs, Maggies, Acoustats...

Current system at home is a pr of "thrift store find" vintage Jensen TF-4 spkrs. Very nice for the $15 I paid.
A modified Sherwood AV receiver and a homebrew powered sub.

Acoustats are at the cabin.

Big system is a custom built Line Array consisting of 12 boxes of 10" drivers(100-1Khz), 2" P-audio covering 1K-20K(JBL copies) and four LAB subs (27-100hz folded horns) per side, about 12KW of QSC power amps, DBX driverack processing and a bunch of other expensive junk that is too heavy for me to be lugging these days.
I have to say that my outdoor PA sounds as good as any hi-fi stuff anyone has ever heard. Must be the man behind the curtain.

Dang... your past systems sound a lot like mine. Favorites were probably the C20 and MC30 (x2) or the AES SE-1 or velez 300B amp. Tubes are fun. Ran mostly vintage horn systems with those: Altec, JBL, Klipsch, Electrovoice, often modified.

I have owned Maggies and Acoustats, too (MG1's, Tympanis, SMg's, 1+1 with Medallion transformers, and 1100's). The panels were nice; I always found the sweet spot to be tiny -- but boy, was it sweet.

G-Benz · #10 10-05-2007, 11:29 AM

Serious audio folks up in here!

You guys talk of stuff I drooled at in stereo shops (before the Best Buy and Circuit City crap existed) and lusted for while reading Stereo magazines!

Sorry...I have an eclectic collection of equipment in various rooms including at work...but alas, nothing with MacIntosh, Krell, Mark Levinson, or any of those uber-audio components...

Kuan · #11 10-05-2007, 11:35 AM

I downsized so I could get the piano upstairs.

I never even get to turn these on anymore. Thinking of buying a 3 watt amp and high efficiency speakers.

cscmc1 · #12 10-05-2007, 11:42 AM

Kuan -- have you listened to a SET amp? Awesome! If you don't want to mess with tubes (300B, 2A3, etc...) try one of the Pass MiniAleph amps. I have one that I sometimes run with the Fostex fullrange kit from Madisound, and it's great. If you want to spend a few bucks, try a Lowther setup, or build a Hedlund horn. Fun stuff!

123c · #13 10-05-2007, 11:51 AM

Here's the Tivoli Model One, which the main thing I am listening to these days, I love the sound from it. I have been listening to a lot of community radio these days.

Whiskeydan · #14 10-05-2007, 12:22 PM

I've been hearing good things about this inexpensive T-Amp driving a pr of the late Terry Cain's BIB spkr.

http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/t-amp_e.html

http://www.zillaspeak.com/bib.asp

Kuan · #15 10-05-2007, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by cscmc1

Kuan -- have you listened to a SET amp? Awesome! If you don't want to mess with tubes (300B, 2A3, etc...) try one of the Pass MiniAleph amps. I have one that I sometimes run with the Fostex fullrange kit from Madisound, and it's great. If you want to spend a few bucks, try a Lowther setup, or build a Hedlund horn. Fun stuff!

Oh crap of course I've listened to them. I love 300B amps and high efficiency horns. But I also love the coherence and imaging of planar speakers! If I had two big rooms I'd have two setups, but I don't even have a listening room anymore.