A couple of shots from my basement audio room, which need to be updated a bit:

Here's my Sansui G-22000, resting atop my Altec VOT, across the room.

SAE X25 System

SAE Rack of gear

My Office SAE Computer-Direct Line "02" System

DIY rack with a mix of SAE, Pioneer, BIC

Just lots more SAE gear

OK some classics now
Kenwood Model Eleven III

Pioneer SX-3900

Pioneer CT-F950

Carver C1 preamp got the M1.5t and TX-11 to go with it.

Care to guess who this is?

Because the [IMG] code is turned off on the board. All the other pics were uploaded one at a time on individual replies using an attached file found at the bottom of the reply screen.

That's okay, at least until I get it figgered out, it helps your post count :D

I had the chance to pick up a CT-F950 for like 10 bucks this week, but I wasn't in a buying mood and it was missing the top cover and had a loose wire from under the top cover, but the more I think about it, I should have picked it up, because 2 stops later I was in a buying mood and picked up the Jensens for 30 bucks, dang, I keep telling myself...just get it, or you will regret it later.
Of course my wife keeps saying.....don't get it, or you will regret it later :eek:

Well I can't post any pics because they are all too big. Plz turn on HTML ASAP so we can post pics easier.

Try it now Thor. I think I've fixed it.

Thor you can resize them really easy. If you're getting the "too big" error message then they might be too big.

I've been resizing mine to 700 x 600 and getting no error messages.

800x 600 is too big according to the site. :cool: http://marvin3m.com/gtb/mermaid1.jpg


Just trying the IMG thing now ...

nope, it only makes them into links instead of putting the pics in the posting. :confused:

Hey Ward,

I've got a Kenwood Model 11G, and I love it! I think I like it better than all the Kenwoods I've had! (timer works) HUGE machine!

Also have a Pioneer CT-F1000 tape deck. Really nice cassette deck, about as "vintage" (bright aluminum) as it can get!

Got my last KR9600 for sale now, will keep the 11G.

Shain don't you just hate the guys with sunglasses that drive the price up by bidding a million times and you don't know if they're going to pay?

Yes, their the ones that give me the most grief, and the ones with 0, 1, or 2 feeback. Let alone negative feedback.

Got one now with "2" feedback, and I'm getting the "no pay" vibes now!!

Bye

Okay here goes Dahlquist DQ-10's with stands.

Phase Linear 400 Series I

Sansui SC3300 cassette deck

Sansui CA-3000 preamp

Sansui 8080 receiver

I have more junk but it's not worth taking any pics of it!! LOL


Mike

purely sweet sweet sweet.

i'm gonna try to post a pic
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Looks like you forgot to type in the adress.

System has been pretty stable for over a year with only the Luxman T-02 tuner added about 6 months ago. Pic too large for direct upload, so you will have to click the link...



http://www.printroom.com/_vti_bin/ViewImage.dll?userid=Lefty&album_id=61058&image_id=1&courtesy=1

Hey WW what sort of crossover did you use? I'm assuming you built these yourself? What would you figure it cost you in total in U.S. dollars? Obviously it's a labor of love so I guess you can't include that in the total!!:p:


Mike

Mornin Mike...

Yeah I built these from a kit Mike. You know, that crossover came with the kit from Elliott over at Zayltron. I soldered all the parts onto a narrow hardwood so it would slip through the main driver hole of the cabinet. 2 inch wide velcro on the inside of the cabinet and the crossover board held that puppy in real tight. Ya know, the velcro might also serve as a shock/vibration absorber too eh? Embarrassed to say though that this audiophile does not know what order that crossover is exactly. (Bet cha a dollar someone here does) The speaker is a Joe D'Appolito design Aria Series and the Aria 5 has been a best seller. In many circles an MTM kit is known as a "D'Appolito" design. The design has a proven track record for years. I knew it was no roll of the dice.

And yes it was a labor of love. I am one of those types that really likes to get his hands dirty if you know what I mean. Been that way all me life :D So a kit was the only way to go in my case. And aside from that, I wasn't finding premanufactured speakers that had the components that I wanted. Well, in any reasonable price range anyway. I wasn't affraid at all to drop the big coin on a speaker never auditioned. It's simply a math equation to me. 1 + 1 = 2. ;)

As far as cost into them discounting labor it has to be about 1,300.00 Elliott got extra money for the dark veneer. (On the plus side, he sent me a spare set of ribbons for the tweets) Plus there's the varnish and loose ends. Anyway, I wanted piano black to match all my other black stuff. Loved that shiney finish! Couln't scrape anyone up in this dang lil hic town to shoot a furniture laquer so I was forced to get the deep black shine the hard way and lay down multiple coats of a high quality varnish with a good brush. 24 hours and steel wool between 4 coats. Whew yup, a labor of love.

Here's the amp I'm using for playing CDs and MP3s - driving a pair of mini KLH speakers from Best Buy. Pair of 6AQ5s for output, Bugle Boy 12AX7 for input (hey - it's all I had...)

And I liked that one well enough to build another. This one is made on a printed circuit board, using 12AX7 and 6BQ5s. It uses a toroidal transformer to prevent the monitor jitter the first one makes... Sent an article to Poptronics magazine, and they are going to publish it some time this fall. I'll probably have circuit boards available then if anyone is interested.

I posted this in the for sale thread to ward but I thought I would post it here also for any new folks who haven't seen them or heard the full story.

This madness all began when our new pom puppy chewed out the surrounds of our old 10" 3 way GE speakers. I wanted to get new speakers and began reading reviews an such on the web and going to stores and listening to some. Since we party a lot I wanted bigger speakers than before. In seaching the web I came accross stuff about vintage speakers. I really liked the size, sound and look of big 3 ways and then I found some Klipsch Cornwalls on the web and they really got my juices flowing. So I made a short list of possible speakers, Cornwall, LaScalas, Chorus that had the size sound and look I wanted saved my money up and then searched the New England area for some and found 1 of each and was all set to go and get whichever pair I could get for the best deal.

Then I was telling a guy I work with about going to look at speakers and he said another guy we worked with had a "huge" set of speakers in his attic he wanted to unload. SO I call the guy and ask him what he's got. He tells me he doesn't know what they are, describes them and I was like ????? You've seen the pictures I had never seen or heard anything like what he was describing. He said the only marking on them in a little badge that says "Special Edition" and a serial #. He bought them from a neighbor who was desperate for money for $400 and that was what he wanted for them, his neighbor had bought them in Germany when he was in the service and brought them back to the US. Well I searched the web and asked on audio forums if anyone had heard of anything like these and came up empty.

Well I go see them and of course I am blown away when I see them and when I take a grill off I see the familar Cerwin Vega woofer, so I know what company made them and in smaller writing on the badge it shows the cerwin vega logo and says Cerwin Vega, he couldn't see it cuz of the dim light in his attic. We bring them down to his living room and he hooks em' up to a Sansui AU-G77X and I was like "wow" and bought them right there for $350 (i traded a pair of computer speakers to him and got $50 off the price of the CV's. Actually I ended up with the CV's ($350) and a pair of Altec Lansing Model 15's ($150) and the AU-G77X ($125) all from that guy for what I had planned on spending for just one pair of speakers.

After a lot of trial and error using 4 different recievers I have them Bi-Amped using a Sansui G-7700 and the AU-G77X and they sound unbelieveable.

It took a long time and alot of searching to find out what exactly the CV's were, I still don't know but I got close. Finally I talked to a guy at CV tech support he said the only other pair of these they have ever seen or heard of are in the Lobby at CV headquarters in the US and that theirs didn't have the grills so that mine were super rare and that they had never even recieved a call about them before. He said he didn't think they made even 12 pairs of them total and that they were real TOTL stuff. Made in Denmark in 1991 and sold for $1000 a piece. So I got ahold of a guy in CV of Denamrk and he sent me a brochure on them, he also asked around the factory and no one had ever heard or seen them. Mine are not exactly the same as the one in the brochure but they are obviously in the same family. Mine differ in that they are 51" tall 18" wide and 16" deep and slightly heavier, also mine have two 5" mids and only one tweet in the front no rear tweet. Here is the email I recieved from the CV guy in Denmark

Hello Chris,

The speaker you have bought is a special model called 1215 mkII. It was
manufactured in Denmark a long time ago.
I only have 1 brochure left which I will make a photocopy and send to
you.
I don't understand your address - where do you live??

Best regards,

Michael
-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Tricia Harl <THarl@Cerwin-Vega.com>
Til: CVE - Michael Jensen <m.jensen@cerwinvega.dk>
Dato: 27. marts 2002 09:18
Emne: FW: Please help me!!!!


Hi Michael,

Do you know what this is? Can you help this customer?

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Tricia

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gentile
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:45 PM
To: Tricia Harl
Subject: FW: Please help me!!!!


Then here are scans of the Brochure I recieved from him:
http://www.concreteconceptsinc.com/buzz/cv1.jpg

http://www.concreteconceptsinc.com/buzz/cv2.jpg

Heres a better pic of mine:


So endeth the saga, except for my search for power to feed these monsters.
http://www.dabros.net/images/thor/dcp_0004.jpg

Last but certainly NOT least. My bran spankin new SVS Bash amp subwoofer. Feel free to stroll into some of the "other" forums to read about this bad boy. It fits the bill for my needs in two channel and 5.1 DVD ohhh baaaaby :smlove:

uggghhh lousy pic though.

Hey WW email me the sub pic. I would like to tweak it in PhotoShop for ya.

webmaster@wardsweb.org

Thanks kindly but you see. On the right side of that pick is a main speaker stand in black that throws the whole thing off. They blend together. I could fool with it in my Photo draw or the like but naaaaaaa. I'll just get a better shot of it one of these days. But thanks for the offer! :)

Enjoy!

http://66.221.25.117/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=660

MikE

This is really pics of my livingroom. Everything is in there since I don't have a dedicated room for sound gear (yet).

The room got really small after I wedged the wide bodied pinball game in there! Oh well, we're moving soon and I will have my own game/sound room seperate from the livingroom!

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http://www.wlt.dk/cv/image_small/DSC00707.jpg

Dual CS5000/Ortofon X5MC
Dynaco Pas4
Dynaco CDV-2
Yamaha T-7
Nakamichi BX100
Yamaha M-80
PSB Stratus Gold i

Dynaco Pat4
Alesis RA100
Denon DCD 425
Cambridge Soundworks Model 17
Kenwood tuner not shown below

Onko receiver ( bought broken on Ebay and repaired)
Samsung CD player
HK speakers (new closeout)

Total cost about $110

Marantz 2216
Sony CD player
My built from scratch two ways.

Accessorized by my wife. Unbelievable. All horizontal surfaces must have something on them. It's hers? She is not allowed to decorate the den where my main system is at all.

Here is my system as of now.

Kenwood 1100u Tube receiver (7591 outputs)
Mcs 3125 Receiver (125WPC)
Mcs 3551 Tape deck
Mcs 3330 8 Track
Mcs VTR component TV (Audio Scope)
Sony 560 DA Reel To Reel
Fisher Cee Dee Player
Klipsch Cornwalls (driven by the kenwood)
EPI Model 180 (driven by the Mcs 3125)

Close up of Kenwood

here is a quick pic of my living room,Rotel RSX 1055 reciever,Rotel 1060 DVD.
1070 130 wt amp,and an old Adcom GFA 6000 5 channel amp,3x100, 2x60

My basement sanctuary.

Of course, since this was taken, a few things have changed. The kit on the floor was there for inventory (wrote down all the serial numbers), took detailed pics for insurance purposes.

my newest reciever(to me) at 33wpc it does surprisingly well and would beat my sony 75wpc table top

hmmm not sure it belongs posted in AK but here is my backup rig with 60 disc changer and remote it can do what is needed

crummy pic of my main set up the box on bottum left is my reciever a pioneer VSX D307 but it works well with my hpm's

my other hpm and my cerwin vega l15 sub notice that the hpm's are the only things not black...a can of spray paint could fix that but I might regret it

My current rig, all Pioneer...

very nice but where are the speakers?

Thanks.

The speakers (HPM-700s) are in opposite corners of the room, 1m off of the floor. No photos of them (yet).

What's the thing on the left below the CD's?

That is a DS-40F Stereo Switch. "Kind of" an early predecessor of the U-24.

Not much of a system buy hey im just starting out.
Pioneer SX-650
Boston Acoustics A-100
Denon DCM-550
Sherwood Tape Deck
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/crackerkorean/Vintage1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/crackerkorean/Mikeside.jpg
In the foreground of the second pic is my workbench. And next to that is my computer desk :thmbsp:
The green paint just didnt work. :thumbsdn:

my CV d5's westby amp and realistic EQ I don't use this stuff yet

The ultimate in power meters? Onkyo M508 amp

Nakid pictures!