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GilesGuthrie

GilesGuthrie

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This was inspired by vat_man's comment "newly upgraded amp", I was interested to know what hi-fi(s) members have. Include anything you have that you can be bothered describing, and in as much detail as you like. I'll start:

Living Room:
Amp: Sony STR-DB930 Dolby Digital Receiver
Source: Sony DVP-S725 DVD player
Speakers: Bose Acoustimass 15 (5x satellite, 1x sub-woofer)

Study:
Amp: Technics SA-EX500 Dolby Pro-Logic Amp
Source: Marantz CD-63 II CD player
Source: Sony MD-JS530 Minidisc deck
Speakers: Bang & Olufsen Beovox 700
Computer: SoundBlaster Live, Altec Lansing Dolby Digital 4.1.

Got a little portable in the kitchen and a clock/radio/cd in the bedroom, plus a "shower radio" in the en-suite.

You'll notice no tape decks. When we moved last year, we made the conscious decision to abandon tape as a medium. I'm quite into Minidisc as a format, and we have a CD-RW in the computer, so we threw out about 200 tapes. We're quite into our entertainment, as you can see, and we have over 600 CDs and over 80 DVDs.
 
ive got a 16 year old general hi-fi system. record player, tape deck, radio tuner, cd player and a luxman 400 watt amplifier. 2 x 12 inch 450 watt sub's, 2 x 6 inch splits and 2 x 2 inch tweeters. not bad for something its age and ive never had a problem with it.
 
Okay:

Amp - Recently acquired Harmon Kardon AVR5000
DVD/CD - Pioneer DVD525
Fronts - Dali (not sure of model, old man bought them in 1988, come up to my lower chest)
Centre & Rears - Wharfdale WH-2s
Sub - JBL Sub175

I was running Dad's old impotent Pioneer SX-1300 amp which was incapable of running the Dalis properly. The HK has cleaned up bass and mid-range definition to absurdly improved levels. I've spent the last couple of weeks rediscovering my music.

...and Midnight Oil up loud with the subwoofer cranked up will kick your arse!!
 
What about car audio? May I include that? Got about $6,500 invested in my car stereo.

Don't own a home just yet so I haven't invested in home entertainment much.
I plan to go BIG STYLE when I get a house, but now the car has all the toy's in it.
 
Put car audio in if you wish! Our car stereo is worth more than the car! But then it is a £500 car!
 
The car: 2001 Lexus IS300

Head unit:
Alpine CDA-7969 CD player. Competition Series.
Features: Digital EQ, DSP, Time correction, remote control, motorized fold down hide away face plate.

AMPS:

Xtant: X604, 4 channel, 150 watts per channel, 600 watts RMS @ 2 OHM's, I run it at 4 OHM's though for better sound quality.

Xtant: X1001, mono block class D amp. Single channel @ 1000 watts RMS @ 2 OHM's

Speakers:

Xtant: Co-axial 5 1/4" mid-range and tweeter.
MTX: T6, 6 1/2" mid-bass drivers.
Xtant: X1044, 10" sub woofer. Dual, liquid cooled voice coils.

Extras:

MB Quart cross-overs.
Xtant Remote Gain Module. (Let's me adjust bass levels by a knob on the dash.)
Dynamate: A sound deadening material that was lined throughout the interior to reduce external road noise.

Instalation: Stealth.

Not much is visible in the interior of the car. The trunk is clean and low key, until a single pannel is removed where the amps and sub woofer are displayed.

www.xtant.com

Xtant's demo vehicle is a BMW M3 or M5. They are using the exact same head unit that I am in there demo vehicle. Pictures.
 
in the living room we have my 2 years old pioneer tower speakers (15" woofer, 4 1/2" mid, 2 1/2" tweeter, 150w a piece) and my dad's 20 year old 110 watt (55 a side) luxman reciever... does the job i suppose... also has a record player, i have a long wire running from the computer to the living room stereo for when i want to listen to music. in my room on the computer here i have monsoon MH-500 half flat panel half driver speakers with the sub, not bad i guess... surprised to see someone else with a luxman stereo, i don't think they've sold luxmans here in many years.
 
I got my hands on a sony home theater package a while ago, really cheap, so thats what i have.

I also have a 20+ year old SAE amp and tuner, but no speakers.

My computer is hooked up to a crappy aiwa bookshelf system, and sometimes the sony:D

I have a really bad habit of collecting pre 90's electronics (they are cooler!)
 
Well, my audio equipment is embarrasingly old and out of date, but with a family, house, and 4 cars, there always seems to be more important things onwghich to spend money.

Amp - my sister's old cheap Kenwood, filling in for my Harmon Hardon unit which blew an output cap (about 8 years ago).

CD - midrange Yamaha 5 disk changer, about 10 years old and going strong.

Tape - Harmon Kardon CD201; about 15-16 years old. Makes excellent tapes but they sound funny when played back on anything else, so mostly I use...

Tape 2 - a reasonably nice Akai unit I bought my wife a long time ago before she was my wife. Makes good dubs for the cars.

Turntable - the useless pride of my collection. Bang & Olufsen Beogram 1800. Sounds great and tracks unbelievably. It needs a stylus, but I can by a nice CD player for the same price or less. It's moot anyway since I never played any one of my 700+ LPs after we got the CD player.

Speakers - some Sansui monsters I got in high school before I knew better. They were big, they were cheap, they sound OK.

DVD - mid-range Sony unit. Enough features to play well; not enough to be rediculously expensive.

VCR - mid-to-cheap Sony unit. Don't watch tapes much since we bought the DVD player; just bought it because the old one cashed in its chips.

TV - 27" Zenith stereo TV, about 10 years old. I really want a 32" Wega but again there are better budget choices to make.

Some day I'll get a nice windfall and join the late 90s by ditching most of the audio equipment. The tape deck will only be necessary until we get new cars with CDs; I can burn my dubs on the computer. The turntable should have been in the attic 10 years ago but it's too pretty to put away.

What I really want is a $500 A/V receiver and a $1200 5-piece speaker setup from somebody like Polk or whoever has replaced them as the upstart bang-for-the-buck speaker designers. I also need to combine the A/V and audio systems; now they are in separate rooms but are never really used concurrently.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
You'll notice no tape decks. When we moved last year, we made the conscious decision to abandon tape as a medium. I'm quite into Minidisc as a format, and we have a CD-RW in the computer, so we threw out about 200 tapes. We're quite into our entertainment, as you can see, and we have over 600 CDs and over 80 DVDs.
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I would have taken them:D
 
Originally posted by space
I have a really bad habit of collecting pre 90's electronics (they are cooler!)
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Have I got a package for you! What are you looking for?
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
TV - 27" Zenith stereo TV, about 10 years old. I really want a 32" Wega but again there are better budget choices to make
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I bought my 27" wega (middle range) for about $400~$450 on sale at best buy. i love it:D:D:D
 
We have a Phillips 32' TV, its pretty cool especially as we didn't pay anything for it. My dad told one of his customers it was unfixable so he wrote it off on his insurance. Then my dad fixed it and kept it, its worth about £1500.

As for CD player not much in my house, mine is a JVC.

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Sorry, I'm usually five years behind the times, which means I missed laserdiscs entirely...
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
VCR - mid-to-cheap Sony unit. Don't watch tapes much since we bought the DVD player; just bought it because the old one cashed in its chips.

TV - 27" Zenith stereo TV, about 10 years old. I really want a 32" Wega but again there are better budget choices to make.

Some day I'll get a nice windfall and join the late 90s by ditching most of the audio equipment. The tape deck will only be necessary until we get new cars with CDs; I can burn my dubs on the computer. The turntable should have been in the attic 10 years ago but it's too pretty to put away.

What I really want is a $500 A/V receiver and a $1200 5-piece speaker setup from somebody like Polk or whoever has replaced them as the upstart bang-for-the-buck speaker designers. I also need to combine the A/V and audio systems; now they are in separate rooms but are never really used concurrently.
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We have a cheap Sony video too. Only use it as a time-delay device. Got the 32" WEGA, and it rocks! In our bedroom we've got a really nice Aiwa 21" TV/Video combi too, which is neat and stylish.

For that sort of money, and bearing in mind the UK/US pricing issues, you should look to Bose if you get your $1200.
 
here's a bad pic of my stereo equipment

There should be visible:

sony 5 disc cd player
sony recievier
SAE "two" series tuner
panasonic laserdisc player
broken apex dvd player
ancient panasonic vcr

And maybe the SAE "two" series amp, in the back:D
 

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Wow, I guess I'm just not that big of an audiophile - you guys have some very nice systems! I listen to all of my music on my computer with Monsoon IM700 flat-panel speakers. There's only one thing I don't like about them: I can't stand to listen to music on anything else! :D
 
well this what i have:

1st amp a old kenwood ( extremely powefull).
2nd amp a old yamaha ( so good)
3rd amp. a technics:sa-dx940

1st eq optimus:10 bands for channel.
2nd eq dsp/eq technics:sh-gs91 ( is the best of all eq's).

1ts casset player technics:rs-tr270.
2nd casset player pioner:ct-w503r.

cd changer technics of 5 disc:slp-d5.
front speakers technics 4 way/140 watts:sb-a46.
center and rears technics 200 watts each.
2 kickers comp 10 inch 300 watts.
6 tweeters 1 inch 100 watt each.
2 optimus:satelite speakers 100 watts each.

my dvd is the ps2.
my tv tv/vcr 20 inchs (is a crap,the vcr is death and don't let me see my dvd in the tv :mad: )

btw:my pc is hooked to the all my stereo sistem. :D
 
Originally posted by f50
my dvd is the ps2.
my tv tv/vcr 20 inchs (is a crap,the vcr is death and don't let me see my dvd in the tv :mad: )
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You'll probably find that's digital encryption by the PS2 to stop you recording DVDs to your VCR.
 
You'll probably find that's digital encryption by the PS2 to stop you recording DVDs to your VCR.
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is true.


a few months ago when my other tv die,i take that crap,and the firts time when i was tryng to see my f&f dvd the tv just don't work.

i call to sony # and after 2 hours of :argue: they made me go to the mall buy a cable ( they say "sorry sir if you don't buy the cable we can't help you) when i put the sony cable and nothing change,i say to the support guy "now is clear the people's of sony don't know nothing even from your own sistem" because when i talk with the 1st guy he tell me the same thing,i try to tell him the cable is not the problem,but they follow telling me the same thing "sorry sir if you don't buy the cable we can't help you"

the final they made buy the cable and don,t give back the money they don't help me in nothing.(what kind of support is that) :mad:
 
Lets see, at home I have a:

  • JVC-5040 5.1 Tuner, 120w per ch.
  • JVC tower Speakers (2x8", 1x4" mid, 1xtweet)
  • A no name center ch. speaker (2x5.25" + 1xtweet)
  • 2x12" Rockford Fosgate 12" subs in custom cabinets
  • Two Klipsch, R series for the rears... (Very Nice, Just gotta match the rest of the system now...)
  • Samsung DVD player for all my DVD, SVCD, VCD, Data MP3 playing needs.
  • JVC S-VHS VCR with S-Vid in/out
  • PS2/XBox/PSOne/N64 Consoles
  • Genaric Tape Deck (What are tapes for? :D)
  • 32" JVC Standard Tube TV

In the Buick I'm running:

  • Kenwood Excelon CD Player with 14v Inputs/Outputs (Balanced)
  • Two 450w Kenwood Excelon Amps (one for the front/one for the back speakers)
  • One Rockford m100 (475w to my subs)
  • For my front speakers-Boston Acoustic 6.5 + seperate soft dome tweet (Rally Series)
  • In the Back Boston Acoustic 6x9 Rally Series
  • In the Trunk 2 Rockford Fosgate 10" subs in a banpass enclosure.
  • Using a Rockford Fosgate Electronic Crossover...
  • All Oxygen Free copper wiring...

That is all and looking for more....

~Peace~
 
Originally posted by Pako
Lets see, at home I have a:

  • JVC-5040 5.1 Tuner, 120w per ch.
  • JVC tower Speakers (2x8", 1x4" mid, 1xtweet)
  • A no name center ch. speaker (2x5.25" + 1xtweet)
  • 2x12" Rockford Fosgate 12" subs in custom cabinets
  • Two Klipsch, R series for the rears... (Very Nice, Just gotta match the rest of the system now...)
  • Samsung DVD player for all my DVD, SVCD, VCD, Data MP3 playing needs.
  • JVC S-VHS VCR with S-Vid in/out
  • PS2/XBox/PSOne/N64 Consoles
  • Genaric Tape Deck (What are tapes for? :D)
  • 32" JVC Standard Tube TV

In the Buick I'm running:

  • Kenwood Excelon CD Player with 14v Inputs/Outputs (Balanced)
  • Two 450w Kenwood Excelon Amps (one for the front/one for the back speakers)
  • One Rockford m100 (475w to my subs)
  • For my front speakers-Boston Acoustic 6.5 + seperate soft dome tweet (Rally Series)
  • In the Back Boston Acoustic 6x9 Rally Series
  • In the Trunk 2 Rockford Fosgate 10" subs in a banpass enclosure.
  • Using a Rockford Fosgate Electronic Crossover...
  • All Oxygen Free copper wiring...

That is all and looking for more....

~Peace~
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what is it with you pako, everything you own kicks arse :lol:
 
OK:

Onkyo 767 Reciever (DD 5.1 & DTS, no THX :( )
Proscan DVD/Divx player
Proscan VCR (Collecting dust)
PS2.

Everything running fiber optic, and S-video. All Monster cable.

Used to have a Panasonic 36" Super flat. Awesome TV. Weighed 160+ pounds. Sodl it before I moved. Now have crappy 27" Zenith.

Infinity Overture 1's on the front. Infinity RS5's in the rear, Infinity Center, and a Velodyne 10" powered sub.

I used to work at Circuit city, so I really used the discount.

We have one tape player in my wifes truck, and about 6 VHS tapes. Used to have 320 or so DVD's until we sold about 50 of them.

Yes, We love movies, and riping through the tunnel at Monaco, at full volume is incredible.

AO
 
THX is overrated DA. It provides you with some equalization...nothing huge. You can have a great sounding setup without it.

Your setup will cost less without it too...not because there's a big hardware difference, but because you're no longer paying George Lucas royalties. :P
 

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