Music Gear
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
I confess to using a cheap all in one stereo/CD player. Works fine for me. I pump it up, every day.
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I confess to using a cheap all in one stereo/CD player. Works fine for me. I pump it up, every day.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
What is your take on Klipsch speakers? I've always wanted a pair but for one reason or another could never afford.
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What is your take on Klipsch speakers? I've always wanted a pair but for one reason or another could never afford.
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i find them too "bright" for listening to music. good highs but lacks the body and warmth. But good for movies though.
Then I would have been disappointed then as I listen to a lot of music and am fairly picky. Thanks
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
I also used a cheap all in one 5 CD changer, I'm a lazy bugger and not and audiophile, and was ver happy to be able to turn it on an get 5 hours of music out of it. Now we have gone to an ipod thingy, still the same cheap amp and speakers but now we have 20gb of music on shuffle. Only downside is when some of the wife's ethnic crap comes on and I need to race for the remote.
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
A Denon PMA 920 Amp and a Pioneer PD-S801 CDplayer from another millenia. I exchanged my old JBLs for a pair of Bowers & Wilkins XT8 a couple of months ago. They're :thumbsup:
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
My stuff is all Technics - aka Panasonic - purchased originally about 40 years ago, and upgraded a bit over the past 15 years. When I was a kid, the dynamic response and frequency range were all that mattered, aside from sheer volume. But as I've aged and my hearing has diminished I find that MP3s sound just fine, so long as I don't listen too closely. If you've still got the capacity to hear the difference, and quality music means a lot to you, go for the best frequency response you can afford - but not below 20 Hz or above 20kHz, since only about 0.2% can actually hear the difference - and enjoy it until long past the time when you can no longer hear the difference. This stuff lasts forever; my Technics turntable still plays vinyl records at 33 1/3 rpm like it did when it was new in 1971. It wobbles a bit, since the crystal oscillator that controls the motor speed has a couple of electrolytic capacitors that are probably dried out and leaky - very tiny tantalums that I can't be bothered to locate and replace - but it still works just fine. In a nutshell, at 37 your hearing is already diminishing; you can't hear what you heard in high school. So save your money and buy equipment that reproduces sounds that you can enjoy thoroughly today. I don't mean to imply that you're getting old, but it's a fact of life that parts wear out, even human parts. If you can stand the indignity, a lot of hearing aid sales places offer free hearing tests. Have your hearing tested, find out what range you have remaining, then buy accordingly. If you can't hear outside of 200Hz - 15kHz, why spend the extra money to buy stuff that can reproduce 10Hz - 25kHz? Believe me, the price goes sky high when you reach for the ultimate limits in reproduction. But do get good stuff. Music is a really important part of my life, one that I don't pay half enough attention to, actually. Life tends to get busier as you get older, not more quiescent as many youngsters imagine. I should change that, and spend more time with my music, when I get the time... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
I've got a Rotel integrated pre/amp and a pair of nice LINN "Index" speakers, all about 15 years old and keep pumping out nice decibels!
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My stuff is all Technics - aka Panasonic - purchased originally about 40 years ago, and upgraded a bit over the past 15 years. When I was a kid, the dynamic response and frequency range were all that mattered, aside from sheer volume. But as I've aged and my hearing has diminished I find that MP3s sound just fine, so long as I don't listen too closely. If you've still got the capacity to hear the difference, and quality music means a lot to you, go for the best frequency response you can afford - but not below 20 Hz or above 20kHz, since only about 0.2% can actually hear the difference - and enjoy it until long past the time when you can no longer hear the difference. This stuff lasts forever; my Technics turntable still plays vinyl records at 33 1/3 rpm like it did when it was new in 1971. It wobbles a bit, since the crystal oscillator that controls the motor speed has a couple of electrolytic capacitors that are probably dried out and leaky - very tiny tantalums that I can't be bothered to locate and replace - but it still works just fine. In a nutshell, at 37 your hearing is already diminishing; you can't hear what you heard in high school. So save your money and buy equipment that reproduces sounds that you can enjoy thoroughly today. I don't mean to imply that you're getting old, but it's a fact of life that parts wear out, even human parts. If you can stand the indignity, a lot of hearing aid sales places offer free hearing tests. Have your hearing tested, find out what range you have remaining, then buy accordingly. If you can't hear outside of 200Hz - 15kHz, why spend the extra money to buy stuff that can reproduce 10Hz - 25kHz? Believe me, the price goes sky high when you reach for the ultimate limits in reproduction. But do get good stuff. Music is a really important part of my life, one that I don't pay half enough attention to, actually. Life tends to get busier as you get older, not more quiescent as many youngsters imagine. I should change that, and spend more time with my music, when I get the time... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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But do get good stuff. Music is a really important part of my life, one that I don't pay half enough attention to, actually.
Ditto, with knobs on. I've had the same hifi system for 30 years, but it is definitely a woodman's axe* system. Quality is cheap, in the long run, as it lasts. My current system, stable for the last 12 years, ignoring source components, consists of a custom minimalist Tanberg preamp feeding into a three way Threshold active crossover, tri-amped into a pair of Mark Levinson ML3 dual mono amps, and a Velodyne 18" servo amped sub-woofer, with primary output via a pair of Lowther ribbon/cone hybrids. Sustained RMS output = 1000 watts Pumped music power output = circa 8,000 watts Nice, but when I listen to Wagner, all the lights in the village dim. :laugh: * "Best axe I ever had. Three new heads, seven new handles, and it's still the best axe I ever had."
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
Celestion floorstanders and subwoofer (on granite slabs to help decouple them from the floor, it was cheap) and an Onkyo AV receiver. My first proper AV setup, we'll see what happens in a few years time about upgrading.
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the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home? 37th is coming along and have a really good chance to get rid of the old gear (Denon AVR + Klipsch speakers) and get a new one.
r.ps wrote:
the listening kind not the playing kind. What kind of gear have you lot got at home?
They don't make them like they used to. * Advent Model 300 [^] FM Receiver and AMP. * Optimus STS1230 speakers as the main pair - can forego a subwoofer with these babies. * Minimus 77 speakers as the backup for those no need to be that loud moments. The Advent I had the opportunity to build it all from parts found within a "scrap" pile of materials donated to the school I was in... early 80s. BEST phono preamp ever on any home receiver IMHO, of course this matters to those who still spin the 33-1/3 and 45s in their collections; goes along nicely with my Fisher Studio Standard direct drive turntable. On the prowl for a well kept Fisher MC4037 system [^]... end of the 70s decade as an early teenager I had the hots for one and Santa Claus never delivered :(( -RP