DangerBoy
Active Member
I have just acquired a 1960s Zenith Moderne Z565 Record Player system with Circle of Sound speakers. A picture of the actual system is below.
My intention is to transform this system into something very cool and decent sounding so I want to do whatever I can within a reasonable budget to make these speakers sound as good as possible. As part of the overall project it is likely that I'll be adding a Raspberry Pi music streamer to the record player unit so it will also be able to stream and play digital music from several sources (mobile devices, network shares and the Internet) by various means as well as play records. That part of the project will be documented in a different forum, likely the DIY forum. I will post a link to that thread in this one as soon as I have it started.
In this thread I'd like to explore various options for upgrading these speakers and then document the work done to do those upgrades.
I know there has been a lot of discussion on these speakers prior to this and I've researched and gone through a lot of it. Most of the threads I found had people making lots of suggestions as to what could be done to upgrade these speakers but almost none of them actually documented/discussed what ended up being done and what the results were. I intend to take this thread through the whole process by keeping a record of what I did, how I did it and how it turned out.
So at this point, what I would like to discuss is what I could do with these speakers and also have people chime in with what they have done with theirs and what the results were. I have created a media Gallery for the overall project which is open to AK members to contribute photos to.
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My intention is to transform this system into something very cool and decent sounding so I want to do whatever I can within a reasonable budget to make these speakers sound as good as possible. As part of the overall project it is likely that I'll be adding a Raspberry Pi music streamer to the record player unit so it will also be able to stream and play digital music from several sources (mobile devices, network shares and the Internet) by various means as well as play records. That part of the project will be documented in a different forum, likely the DIY forum. I will post a link to that thread in this one as soon as I have it started.
In this thread I'd like to explore various options for upgrading these speakers and then document the work done to do those upgrades.
I know there has been a lot of discussion on these speakers prior to this and I've researched and gone through a lot of it. Most of the threads I found had people making lots of suggestions as to what could be done to upgrade these speakers but almost none of them actually documented/discussed what ended up being done and what the results were. I intend to take this thread through the whole process by keeping a record of what I did, how I did it and how it turned out.
So at this point, what I would like to discuss is what I could do with these speakers and also have people chime in with what they have done with theirs and what the results were. I have created a media Gallery for the overall project which is open to AK members to contribute photos to.
View media item 12153