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Let ol' Bully resurrect this old thread! Over the many years, and long before AK (of which I was an original member), I had 'stuff.' Buncha stuff I gave to family members to use. Prolly the biggest set was the Mach One's and a JVC JR-S501 receiver (TOTL, 120 wpc, 1978), when my niece and two...

Hiyas, everyone I knew so long ago, and hi all the "new" guys -- like so much, I see AK has changed, too. Anyhows, I went out to return a bad box of trashbags, and on the way home, since I had the dogs in the car, I took a slightly different route to home. Up ahead are large signs touting...

Hmmmm ... so long ago! BA History MA English Literature MA History MS Education MLS PhD History Between a rock and a hard place ... I just liked to read while playing music on a great stereo.

LTNS to a lot of the older members here! So many old friends. My pride and joy is the Yamaha R-2000 ... and the bane of my collection! When the too typical over-heating protection-kicking on STK-3156 gods alive over a decade ago now, that problem child was near impossible to find; now they're...

The amp arrived! Not a bad looking amp, very understated for a professional amp. The manual is skimpy, and the translation from Chinese hilarious. However, it does state that the T-6500 puts out 450 watts at 0.05% THD+N. OK. Well, I now live out in the sticks here in Indiana, and we have...

Another hot day brewing here in Indiana. About all I can do is walk the dogs. Been a long time since I last had a dog, she was a beautiful red brindle boxer. Then, last April, we rescued a pretty 7-month old Razor's Edge-type pitbull girlie. We were a bit delinquent in getting her spayed...

Well, shoot! Can't find out much about this one, but ordered one from Amazon cause I have been Jonesing to buy something, been a long while since. 650 watts into 8 ohms per channel. 36 lbs, so a bit of weight to it. Right now I'm using my Carver Pro for the center pair of speakers in my TV...

I use a pair of Yamaha NS-A838, 12-inch 3-ways for the important center channel. I have a monster old AV receiver, the THX-ultra2 badged Onkyo TX-DS989, a very conservative 130 watts RMS for each of its seven channels. Good as those watts are, I use the center pre-out to a Carver ZR1600 300...

Hey, hiya Theophile! Nice to hear from you :)

I've been into vintage gear LONG before it was ever considered vintage gear. When I first got a PC and hooked up to the new-fangled WWW, I was chagrined to learn that my wonderful, beloved gear was considered, well, "vintage," as if it wasn't quite up to snuff. As I discovered places where I...

I have had the DX4000 and the DX4002. The DX4000 was dead quiet, and for a more "purest" system, would be closest to a simple straight-line controller. I LOVE the Soundcraftsmen gear, and have had 6 or 7 or 8 of their amps, and the preamps. Their early gear was for home audio, but were so...

Hello, Merrylander! Hope all is well with you and yours. Would you be interested in taking a look at my Yamaha R-2000? Haven't had it out since last December, then moved here to Indiana after retiring, but believe the problem is in the power amp section. I know it may not be exactly "vintage"...

Someone in Chicago-land has a pair of Martin-Logan Monolith speaker systems, and I go "oohhhhhhh" but SWMBO has decreed I have too much stuff the way it is ... and I shed speakers, tuners, integrateds, dvd player, and more before I moved here after retiring. Ah, well, the way it is, the main...

I have been a fan of RtR speakers! When the founder died, no one in the family had his love of audio and great sounding speakers. Used discreetly, a piezo can be very appropriate.

(also jealous of your visit) Ah, the wonder of Yamaha's Natural Sound!! For a receiver, the CR-2040 is about perfect: enough power to drive most speakers very well, and yet not so huge as to be untenable to place or move. I have had many Yamaha tidbits, and had a sweetie CR-1040 I gave to...