What vintage gear are you playing?

[Opus]

Found a Dynakit ST70 and Dynaco PAS3 in the garbage. Good to be a Garbageman. Cost $100 to get them repaired. $30 for my ADS L400 speakers at Goodwill and $19.99 at a video store for my Sony Playstation 1 5501 for my CD Player. Also have a pair of Genesis Model 1+ that needs woofers refoamed and a pair of Mission 765i speakers. Looking forward to getting the Genesis running!

Opus

 

[Greg beck]

IMac running through a Marantz 2218 and NHT 1.3's in my den.

 

[ricksiri]

Currently running:
Marantz 2250B
Thorens TD145 TT w/ AT440mlb cartridge
Rega Apollo CD player (non-vintage)
Arcam DrDoc dac w/Ipod (non-vintage)
Klipsch Forte speakers (Crites upgrades)
KLH 5 speakers

In rotation:
Fisher 500c
Yamaha CR2020
Sansui 5000X
Sansui AU-7900 Integrated / TU-5900 tuner
Pioneer SX-828
Sony STR-6060FW
Sony STR-6050
Sony STR-7035
Sony TA-3200F Power amp
Yaqin MS-12B Tube preamp
Pioneer RT-701 rtr
KLH 6 speakers
Original large Advents
Klipsch KG4

Aaaahhh!....i can't stop collecting

 

[superdog]

A Pioneer A-70 circa 1982 120 wpc- PL 400- AR94 speakers. An well balanced setup for vinyl at moderate listening levels.The ARs are not real efficient so the power of the Pioneer works well with them.Like I said these speakers are not going to rattle walls due to their size but sound very good.file photos

 

[gururyan]

Dual 1219 w/Pickering XV15
Stereotech 1200 or Sansui 5000
Bozak Rhapsody B-401's

 

[bigaltx24]

Main System
1962 Zenith 5G29 Single Ended EL84, console pull modified to straight power amp, original Dutch Amperex EL84s and 1956 Lansdale 12AU7
Luxman R-113 (preamp)
Cambridge Audio Azur 650C
Technics SL-MA1
Wharfedale W70Ds (Mundorf Evo Oil Aluminum caps and Mills resistors)
To me Class A amps just push all the right buttons.

Guitar Rig
Sansui 881
Denon DVD-900
Baby Advents and or Polk Monitor 30s
Line 6 Pod
2001 Mexican Strat
I know, "you'll blow up your speakers kid" I haven't yet and it sounds really cool.

Workshop System
Sansui 6060
Emerson DVD player
DCM TF350s or KLH Model 6
Need some tunes while I tinker

TV System
Kenwood KA-701
Bozak LS-200s
Either never got the memo on surround sound or more than likely ignored it.

 

[K_50]

My setup: Technics SL-1360 -> Akai AA-1040 -> IMF Compact Monitor II (I continue to be be amazed at how low, and clean these small boxes go).
Currently playing Deep Purple's Made in Japan

 

[Bodyblue]

I use vintage receivers for my two channel systems but use modern speakers for them (Polk 110bs).
KR850 (75WPC)with older Sony DVD hooked up to Xfinity cable box to stream music from.
Realistic STA 85 (35WPC) to use with the TT that I swap out with a Kenwood KR 4600.

Sears Sanyo built LXI that I picked up for $8 that I use for the computer. I also have a Pioneer SX 680 for computer use and I will move the LXI into the spare bedroom

 

[fixtillbroke]

Living Room:
Sansui G4700
Pioneer pL-514 turntable
Philips DVD player (for CDs & TV)
Boston Acoustics t-830 speakers
JBL PS60

Computer:
Hitachi SR-5200 receiver
Optimus Pro X5 speakers
(also use the Pioneer tt,
Mitsubishi DA-U75 integrated amp, &
Technics RS-B7 to input analog sound into computer
for digitally recording)

Bedroom:
Sony STR-2800 receiver
Technics SL-5 turntable
Realistic TR-801 8-track deck
Magnavox CDB-502 CD player
Sharp RT-100 cassette deck
JBL 2500 speakers
(the Sony needs help & doesn't have enough inputs, but it sounds & looks good, & I feel sorry for it, so its there for now)

Garage:
Sansui CA-2000 preamp
Sansui BA-2000 power amp
Sansui TU-9900 tuner
Yamaha R-300 receiver
Technics SA-GX100 receiver
Technics SL-Q6 turntable
Onkyo DX-C100 CD changer
Sanyo RD W59 dual cassette
DCM KX-12 Speakers
JBL 4311 speakers
big red 3-way speakers I built in woodshop in high school
Yamaha 3-way bookshelf speakers
IDC 3-way bookshelf speakers
(this system sounds "really big" with all 5 pairs of speakers going but I need to work on getting the sweet spot closer to floor level)

teenage son's bedroom:
Pioneer SX-990 receiver
Sansui RG-700 equalizer
Yamaha CD-2 CD player
Radio Shack/RCA 5" 2-way speakers

a school classroom:
Sony 1990s vintage integrated amp
Onkyo 12'" 3-way floor standing speakers
Kenwood subwoofer
(Used about 3 minutes a week for music appreciation for 3rd graders)

I really do need to hook up something in the kitchen.

Tremendous collection of gear. The garage sounds like you're out there a LOT! I would be. I need to ask about your livingroom set up. Specifically the JBL PS60. I recently acquired one and have problems with the off on switching. As you know there is no always on position. The listening levels that I usually play at aren't enough to activate the "on" of this sub amp. Do you have this issue? Is there a fix on the plate amp I can do? Should I set up something to make my main speakers less efficient, and thereby allow my receiver's volume setting to be higher? Any suggestions? BTW I am using line level inputs because my NAD 7220PE doesn't have subwoofer output.

 

[fixtillbroke]

EasyRiderNYC,

That sure is a nice looking stack of equipment very attractively set up.

What vintage gear are you playing?

Listening Room:

Heathkit AA-29
AR-3
SAE 5000A
JVC QL-5 w/Shure V-15 type V MR

Library:

H H Scott 342

How do you like the SAE 5000A? Do you readjust often? Like every record or even every song? I'm thinking about getting one.

 

[Ds2000]

Onkyo M-510
Onkyo Scepter-5001
Kenwood L-1000T
All running right now.

 

[tcdriver]

How do you like the SAE 5000A? Do you readjust often? Like every record or even every song? I'm thinking about getting one.

Most of the time I do not have my SAE 5000A switched in because it does have a negative impact on the sound. I switch it in only for records where the benefit of its application outweighs the negative aspects of its use. It is a valuable tool and I am glad I have it for those times when it is needed. And yes, the best performance is obtained when it is adjusted for each record with which it is used.

 

[holyman772]

Just set up a system for my fathers porch using some of my extra gear. A Realistic STA-78 into Minimus 7s with a Toshiba CD changer as the source. Surprised how good it sounds outdoors like that.

 

[rkgren1]

Playing the living room setup tonight: Pioneer SX-950 playing Youtube JJ Grey YouTube videos thru a pair of Realistic Optimus 5Bs
Will retire to the bedroom after a while and listen to FM radio: Sherwood S7100-A feeding a pair of Infinity Entra Twos

I also have set up a Pioneer SX-1000TW attached to Cerwin Vega D2s and a pair of older apparently homebuilt 12" 3-ways in nice walnut cabs, and which sound quite with the warm tone of the Pioneer.

On standby in the corner:
-- Sansui 771
-- Realistic STA-90
-- Pioneer SX-636

Idle Speakers:
-- Sansui SP-2000
-- Bose 601 series II
-- Graphyx 6
-- B&W DM303 (2 pair)

 

[KentTeffeteller]

My pride and joy x 3:

Main system:

McIntosh MC 2505-2
McIntosh MX 114
Technics SP-25/Audio-Technica ATP 16-T/Shure M75EJ Type 2
Technics M 205
Dynaco A 25

System B:

McIntosh MA 5100
HH Scott 312D
Onkyo cassette deck
Pioneer PL 530 with Shure M75EJ Type 2
Coral BX 800

System C:

Sansui 4000
Pioneer PL 12-D with Shure M75EJ Type 2
Otari MX 5050 B II
JVC Double cassette deck
The Advent Loudspeaker

 

[88gibson]

Sony Ps-8750 Turntable, through a Crown Straight Line Two Preamp, to a youngster of an amplifier Apogee sa800b (1997ish), to my beautiful Infinity Quantum 2 Speakers

 

[mgkfifty]

Yamaha C6/M4, Adcom GCD-575, Yam T-1020 tuner, DCM TF-600, M&K MX-70B in the garage

 

[SansuiDynaco]

1975 Sansui AU-6600 stereo amplifier with 1971 Dynaco A-25 speakers!

 

[fixtillbroke]

1975 Sansui AU-6600 stereo amplifier with 1971 Dynaco A-25 speakers!

The only part of selling my A-25's that I can stand is the fact that they are now in a better environment and have an even more obsessive compulsive speaker collector than me as an owner. They are by far one of the most listenable speakers I ever owned. I would use them continuously in my shop, every weekend when I had them. They never complained or squealed at me, despite the source material, the humidity and the cold. Lots of systems went those years to pay for the Wall Street crooks to get bailed out. They could be excused for their debt, but if I missed a payment, I'd be homeless as well as jobless.

 

[dander]

Pioneer SA 9500 II and TX 9500 II, Technics SL-D20, all to some Epi M100's. Will be some ADS goodness when the mids and tweets return from Richard So. Don't know if the Adcom GCD 575 cd player qualifies as vintage, but it's well over 20 years old.