Your audio equipment

[Mith]

I was recordind today and was wondering what everone else has as their audio equipment, I expect there are some people here with some really neat set-ups, lets see them!

As for mine, built on a budget, but its does it job well and sounds pretty good. I listen to mostly Reggae.
Sony Minidisk, Sony amp, Gemini preamp mixer, Marantz signature CD, Technics CD. Eltax floorstanders.
Excuse the mess


Lets see yours

 

[Doc]

I don't have a pic but I have a fair stereo.

100 watt pioneer amp (old)
200 disk Sony CD changer
10 band Equalizer
4 Sansui 200 watt 3 way speakers

I have a couple of fairly high end cassette decks and a reverb box, but I don't have those hooked up anylonger. I never use them.
Oh yeah, I also have a reel to reel ...I had the choice of getting a reel to reel with sound on sound (record multiple tracks overtop of one another) or one with an 8 track built in. Guess which I bought. Yep, the one with the 8 track in the side. I was in the Philipines then and stereo equiptment was priced right for sure.

 

[Melensdad]

Studer-Revox tangental tracking turntable (yup, for spinning vinyl)
G.A.S. 'Son of Ampzilla' 400 watt amp
Bryson pre-amp
Harmon Kardon AM/FM tuner
Onkyo tape deck (cassette not 8-Track)
Denon 1920 CD-DVD player with upsampling
Denon THX surround sound amp
2x DCM Time Windows (main speakers)
5x Paradigm satellite speakers
1x Paradigm amplified sub woofer

The lovely Mrs_B put here foot down and told me that I have to simplify the electronics in the living room so I need to bury everything into a wall cabinet (still being built by the cabinet maker). I fear that some of the equipment will be relegated to the family room. But no fears, if that happens I'll have 2 rooms that will be able to shake the house and a reason to buy another amplified sub woofer.

 

[bczoom]

Which room are we talking about?

Nothing fancy but all work/sound pretty good.

I don't recall the models on most...

Livingroom:
Onkyo receiver/amp
Bose AccustiMass (sp?) 7's in the front & center
Bose AccustiMass (sp?) 3's in the rear
Technics CD player

Work Shop
Onkyo receiver/amp
Bose 251's - front
Bose 301's - rear
Acoustic Reasearch speakers for outside
Harmon Karden 5-disk changer

Office
Sony box system (receiver, CD, 5 speakers + sub)

Basement
Harmon Karden receiver
Harmon Karden cassette deck
Mission 707 speakers - front
Jensen concert series - rear

 

[beds]

My Scottish system would make John Day proud!
Linn Classic integrated amp and CD
Linn Kann bookshelfs
Linn Sismic powered subwoofer
Systemdek turntable

Then the back room system is the old Halfler DH101 amp and preamp along with a Pioneer multi-CD player and a Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck and old advent speakers.

 

[GaryE]

After spending a few hours listening to music, I remembered this thread. While the smile is still on my face, here is my stuff:

4 Yamaha NS-1000 Studio monitors
Powered by 2 Yamaha M-80 Amps
Continuos Power Per Channel

20Hz ~ 20kHz 0.003% THD 8Ω…………………250W

0.007% THD 6Ω…………………290W

0.02% THD 4Ω…………………330W



Dynamic Power

1kHz 8Ω/6Ω/4Ω/2Ω………………380/480/640/850W



Power Bandwidth (0.03%THD, 128W/8Ω)…10-100kHz



Total Harmonic Distortion

MAIN IN to SP out, 80 W/8Ω……………………0.002%



IM Distortion Ratio (8Ω)……………………………0.003%


Power Bandwidth (0.03%)THD 80W 8Ω)………10Hz~100kHz


Damping Factor
(Speaker A, 1kHz, 8Ω)……………………………………250



Frequency Response (20Hz~20kHz)………………+0, -0.1



Input Sensitivity/Impedance…………………………1.55V/20kΩ



Signal-to-noise ratio (IHF-a-network)

(Main In Shorted, 5.1 KΩ)………………………127dB/119dB



Channel Separation

Input Shorted

40Hz…………………………………………………………106dB

1kHz…………………………………………………………59dB

10kHz…………………………………………………………76dB

For you people that are as sick as I am.! That is about 1000 Watts total, not counting the subs.


And two YST-SW215 Subs
Fed by a Yamaha C-80 pre amp

Right now using a Sony CD player… Not sure I am happy with it….

And various other inputs…

Yes I am sick!!!!

And did I say my music room is 12’ X 14’

 

[messickfarmequ]

Ah lets see. I've had about 3x as much stuff over the last few years as what I have now... but as it stands.

Custom Built speakers

Computer Monitors with HiVi Research 6" Mid & Ribbon Tweeter driven by 2 8 watt tube amps.

Vifa MTM Towers & Center Channel

HiVi M6 Mid & B&G Planer Tweeter
12" Custom Built sub with 250 watt amp (this is the smallest I've owned)

Xbox with Media Center, home theater PC with TIVO card, Xbox 360.

Denon 7.1 reciever that I really just use as a preamp for an Adcom 300wpc(@ 8 ohm) amp. I've also owned crown amps, I've built my own from scratch. I've gone though Harman, Adcom, Onkyo, Denon and Panasonic recievers. I liked the Onkyo the best, I'm waiting for the Cash to get a real outlaw audio preamp. That and a real HDTV.

I have a bit of an addiction

 

[Dargo]

I have an old 8 track tape player hooked to a marine battery on a 2 wheel hand truck with 2 6X9 Audiovox speakers duct taped to the top.

 

[Mith]

Gary, I think we deserve a photo of that set up! Awesome! Love to see the dual amps!

 

[AndyM]

I have an old 8 track tape player hooked to a marine battery on a 2 wheel hand truck with 2 6X9 Audiovox speakers duct taped to the top.

That brings back memories of my 1982 Datsun!
I had a shoebox of 8 track tapes sitting on the front seat.

 

[GaryE]

Gary, I think we deserve a photo of that set up! Awesome! Love to see the dual amps!

I will try to clean up the "cunstuction zone" tomorrow....Will post as soon as I can!

Gary

 

[daedong]

I have an old 8 track tape player hooked to a marine battery on a 2 wheel hand truck with 2 6X9 Audiovox speakers duct taped to the top.

A 8 track, my god that must be 30 years old now, be worth a fortune to a collector.

 

[daedong]

That brings back memories of my 1982 Datsun!
I had a shoebox of 8 track tapes sitting on the front seat.

Andy,
Datsun, What were they called in the US 120y and 180b or did they have another name there.

 

[Dargo]

Actually, it's sad to say that my old 8 track player on the dolly with a marine battery went by the way side many years ago. That is what I used to use though. Other than the darn clicking noise it made when going between tracks, it seemed to sound pretty nice to me. I said that because I just gave a buddy of mine a Peter Frampton 8 track that was still in my barn a few weeks ago. We laughed about it because I'd left it on my dash board in high school and the tape got all warped. From that point on, everyone in the group I used to hang with always called that singer "Peter Warpton".

For the pool house and entertainment room I have gone the way of the high power 7 channel amps with a couple thousand watts of subs alone (gotta love that deep bass). For outside in the pool area, I've found that it takes a lot of power to get decent sound outside, so I probably push as much power there as anywhere. I'm kind of a music freak so you can just leave it to your imagination as to what I may have in each area. I will admit that I seem to like the Yamaha RX-Z9 receivers I have though. Not only do they rock, but they are very forgiving when you short out two speaker wires.

Since Bob mentioned that Canadian company, Paradigm, I can tell you that they don't ask questions on their warranty work. I managed to set a fire briefly to one of their speakers in my gym a few years ago. Apparently they have a 5 year warranty. I was right at 4 years and 11 months into owning them when I blew them, and they were repaired no questions asked. Oh yeah, I almost forgot why I mentioned those speakers; I'd forgotten how that name is pronounced. For those of you who know, you can guess what brand of speaker I said I had when I brought them in for repair. Duh! I'll just say that it's not pronounced like it looks!

 

[AndyM]

Andy,
Datsun, What were they called in the US 120y and 180b or did they have another name there.

All of the Datsun passenger cars in the U.S. (except for the Z series) throughout the 1970's and early 80'd ended with -10. The main models were the 210, 510, and 810. When they changed over to Nissan, they changed the model names... Datsun 810 became Nissan Maxima, etc.

Mine was a 720 pickup truck with a diesel engine. It was my first vehicle, and I paid $225 for it in 1989. It had a Radio Shack am-fm 8 track player in it.

 

[beds]

I said that because I just gave a buddy of mine a Peter Frampton 8 track that was still in my barn a few weeks ago.

Frampton Comes Alive! Thanks for bringing those high school memories back! Must have played that album a few thousand times.

 

[Dargo]

Frampton Comes Alive! Thanks for bringing those high school memories back! Must have played that album a few thousand times.

That be the one! Can you conjure up the mental picture of the label on the 8 track? Imagine the memories of listening to that while experimenting with Jim Beam for the first time along with the built in warped sound track. Hitting a hard bump in the road would cause my 8 track player to change tracks. That never bothered us; we just began singing along to whatever song the player chose for us. Gees, the care free days...

 

[beds]

That be the one! Can you conjure up the mental picture of the label on the 8 track? Imagine the memories of listening to that while experimenting with Jim Beam for the first time along with the built in warped sound track. Hitting a hard bump in the road would cause my 8 track player to change tracks. That never bothered us; we just began singing along to whatever song the player chose for us. Gees, the care free days...

I recall that album cover. For me it's memories of sitting in a buddy's basement whose older brother would go to the beer store for us and get us two-four (case of 24) for $10 (which included a $2 tip for him)(would be $35 a case today). And that was a very sing-along album wasn't it! Everyone sitting around and belting out "ooo, baby I love your way". I'll have to look for some of those tunes on mp3.