Hello,
Lurked around here for awhile while checking out some vintage receiver info - and recently pulled the trigger on a recently serviced, pretty minty, Concept 6.5
I've had it for about a week now and it's completely blown me away. I was strongly considering a Marantz 2230, 4240, and 2270 - and wow I'm glad I chose this one. Context:
My roommate's gave us one of her (2) Technics 1200 mk2 vinyl record players. It needed a tiny bit of work so I got a Shure M97xe cartridge, ordered new high end RCA cables, fixed the arm riser, etc...
My roommate, who was the one buying all the other equipment, *really* wanted a vintage receiver. So we ended up with this Concept 6.5, that I saw very positive things about on here but quite frankly I didn't expect to be THIS good.
We have a full Yamaha receiver / Klipsch 5.1 setup in our living room for HT set up right next to our new stereo set up for music.
He has a Yamaha YAS-203 soundbar and sub in his bedroom... and I went bonkers for my bedroom HT and bought a Pioneer Elite SC-25 receiver with Klipsch RB51ii bookshelves, matching center, a Sunfire SDS10 dual driver sub, and Bose rears. So again, I thought going into this, that this living room stereo setup would essentially be a novelty in comparison. NOPE.
I suggested a screaming deal on KEF Q300 bookshelves (MFG refurbished) to pair with this Concept 6.5
Woooooooooooow. The amount off clear crisp sound this combo puts out is insane. The bass is incredible too!!! I'm running vinyl records, iPhone/MacBook music through RCA to stereo mini cable on the TAPE 1 input,.. and FM radio.
So that brings me to the point: it's hard to get the STEREO light to come on in FM radio. I'm using the crappy antenn that came with my Pioneer SC-25.
What's a good antenna to use? Most of the ones I'm finding on Amazon/etc don't specify the connection type. Here's a pic of the back and I'll make sure to upload plenty of drool worthy pics of the receiver and set up later.
Thanks in advance for he help!
Lurked around here for awhile while checking out some vintage receiver info - and recently pulled the trigger on a recently serviced, pretty minty, Concept 6.5
I've had it for about a week now and it's completely blown me away. I was strongly considering a Marantz 2230, 4240, and 2270 - and wow I'm glad I chose this one. Context:
My roommate's gave us one of her (2) Technics 1200 mk2 vinyl record players. It needed a tiny bit of work so I got a Shure M97xe cartridge, ordered new high end RCA cables, fixed the arm riser, etc...
My roommate, who was the one buying all the other equipment, *really* wanted a vintage receiver. So we ended up with this Concept 6.5, that I saw very positive things about on here but quite frankly I didn't expect to be THIS good.
We have a full Yamaha receiver / Klipsch 5.1 setup in our living room for HT set up right next to our new stereo set up for music.
He has a Yamaha YAS-203 soundbar and sub in his bedroom... and I went bonkers for my bedroom HT and bought a Pioneer Elite SC-25 receiver with Klipsch RB51ii bookshelves, matching center, a Sunfire SDS10 dual driver sub, and Bose rears. So again, I thought going into this, that this living room stereo setup would essentially be a novelty in comparison. NOPE.
I suggested a screaming deal on KEF Q300 bookshelves (MFG refurbished) to pair with this Concept 6.5
Woooooooooooow. The amount off clear crisp sound this combo puts out is insane. The bass is incredible too!!! I'm running vinyl records, iPhone/MacBook music through RCA to stereo mini cable on the TAPE 1 input,.. and FM radio.
So that brings me to the point: it's hard to get the STEREO light to come on in FM radio. I'm using the crappy antenn that came with my Pioneer SC-25.
What's a good antenna to use? Most of the ones I'm finding on Amazon/etc don't specify the connection type. Here's a pic of the back and I'll make sure to upload plenty of drool worthy pics of the receiver and set up later.
Thanks in advance for he help!