PeterFCassidy
Nikko+Apt-Holman = OMG!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!
Lest you forget which receiver rules the Wasteland!
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Morden2004
Relaxin'
I'm {permanently} bent over in front of my G-8000. I had to lift that @!!@%$@# off the floor and put it on top of my entertainment center.
Nice unit!! Congrats.
Paul
PS: You need a better FM antenna :scratch2: . Check the 'J-pole' threads in the [Tuners] forum. :thmbsp:
Nice unit!! Congrats.
Paul
PS: You need a better FM antenna :scratch2: . Check the 'J-pole' threads in the [Tuners] forum. :thmbsp:
PeterFCassidy
Nikko+Apt-Holman = OMG!
That's the Spirit!
M,
I know what you mean. Lifting and placing it level or shoulder height is one thing. Lifting and clearing this thing up over your shoulders can be surprising experience. When I got it, I put on top of a tall four drawer file cabinet only to discover that it wouldn't come out of protection, a real mystery because the unit arrived in the most amazing packaging imaginable and looked virtually unused. Yup, I had to take it down and off to my tech's where he found a nearly invisible microfissure in a PCB, one he theorized could have been there since it's original shipment from Japan 30 years ago. By that point, I had learned to use the depressions where the inputs and outputs are housed as handles and found the resting feet on the back of the unit. Still, given the weird distribution of weight in these units, it doesn't help much during a lot placing it. How high is your entertainment center?
Peter
M,
I know what you mean. Lifting and placing it level or shoulder height is one thing. Lifting and clearing this thing up over your shoulders can be surprising experience. When I got it, I put on top of a tall four drawer file cabinet only to discover that it wouldn't come out of protection, a real mystery because the unit arrived in the most amazing packaging imaginable and looked virtually unused. Yup, I had to take it down and off to my tech's where he found a nearly invisible microfissure in a PCB, one he theorized could have been there since it's original shipment from Japan 30 years ago. By that point, I had learned to use the depressions where the inputs and outputs are housed as handles and found the resting feet on the back of the unit. Still, given the weird distribution of weight in these units, it doesn't help much during a lot placing it. How high is your entertainment center?
Peter
Morden2004 said:
Morden2004
Relaxin'
My entertainment center is about 5 feet high (just about shoulder height). I very difficult and dangerous lift at my age. :yes:
Paul
Paul
thedelihaus
Nocturnal transmissions
Mister Cassidy,
What kind of music do you feed this beast?
What kind of music do you feed this beast?
PeterFCassidy
Nikko+Apt-Holman = OMG!
It sounds better than it looks!
Fotno, Mr Haus,
The G series was an interesting range with great sound and a design conceit that was different enough for the time to be considered striking without being so strange as to be alienating. There are some threads on AK about the 22000 and 33000 series having sacrificed sound quality for sheer power. You'll get arguments about the relative sound quality of receivers, but with a good pair of speakers that aren't biased too heavily, there is no recording that the GX000s won't be able to represent with respectable precision and authority. I thought I was clever mating the Vintage Sansui to brand new (modified) Paradigms but there are a lot of guys I notice running Vintage receivers and new technology speaks. May be the new technology has things going for it that Vintage speaks don't have (certainly materials science had advanced in 30 years) or it may be that solid state amps and receivers age better than speaks.
Mr Haus, during the day, I am enslaved to College Band radio, spinning from Emerson College (88.9) to WHRB (95.3) to MIT (881.) to BU (90.9) to UMass/Boston (91.9), depending on the program guides' listsing (yes, some of these stations have program guides!), time of day and what strikes my ear as interesting. At night, I listen to a mix of orchestral, chamber, big band, acoustic jazz, historical Iberian folk music, klezmer, flamenco, rock, brass quintet and Motown. Discs and records waiting to played and filed away in my listening room include music from Keith Jarrett, the Manhanttan Transfer, Alan Hovanhess, Brian Seltzer, Calamus (andalusian folk music group), Wagner, Skalkotys, Maynard Ferguson, Art of Brass Copenhagen (brass quintet), Chaka Khan, Mott the Hoople, the Center City Brass Quintet and, of course, the amazing, enigmatic Blue Oyster Cult.
Peter
Fotno, Mr Haus,
The G series was an interesting range with great sound and a design conceit that was different enough for the time to be considered striking without being so strange as to be alienating. There are some threads on AK about the 22000 and 33000 series having sacrificed sound quality for sheer power. You'll get arguments about the relative sound quality of receivers, but with a good pair of speakers that aren't biased too heavily, there is no recording that the GX000s won't be able to represent with respectable precision and authority. I thought I was clever mating the Vintage Sansui to brand new (modified) Paradigms but there are a lot of guys I notice running Vintage receivers and new technology speaks. May be the new technology has things going for it that Vintage speaks don't have (certainly materials science had advanced in 30 years) or it may be that solid state amps and receivers age better than speaks.
Mr Haus, during the day, I am enslaved to College Band radio, spinning from Emerson College (88.9) to WHRB (95.3) to MIT (881.) to BU (90.9) to UMass/Boston (91.9), depending on the program guides' listsing (yes, some of these stations have program guides!), time of day and what strikes my ear as interesting. At night, I listen to a mix of orchestral, chamber, big band, acoustic jazz, historical Iberian folk music, klezmer, flamenco, rock, brass quintet and Motown. Discs and records waiting to played and filed away in my listening room include music from Keith Jarrett, the Manhanttan Transfer, Alan Hovanhess, Brian Seltzer, Calamus (andalusian folk music group), Wagner, Skalkotys, Maynard Ferguson, Art of Brass Copenhagen (brass quintet), Chaka Khan, Mott the Hoople, the Center City Brass Quintet and, of course, the amazing, enigmatic Blue Oyster Cult.
Peter
thedelihaus said:
Hey that's a nice looking 8000 you have there. I rescued mine from a truck garage at a gravel bank. Most filthy enviornment you'd ever want to see and here's this gorgeous g8000 sitting in the midst of all the filth. The controls were all scratchy and the volume pot was ready to fall off but I was able to get it ship shape. That reciever will be with me forever as the sound that comes out of it is equal to or in some cases better than separates. Sansui hit a home run with the g8000.
