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Hi everyone -- thanks in advance for your advice and input! I know this is probably sacrilege to many on this forum, but I am looking for recommendations on a cheap bluetooth DAC. Before you crucify me, please let me explain: I would like to stream background music from my phone to a vintage...

Is there a streamer that doesn't require a smart phone? I know I am living in the dark ages and woefully ignorant about digital products. Help?:bye:

I bought the magnavox 8602 for $99 on Facebook marketplace. I bought a broken outlaw rr2150 for $50 that's output wasn't working but The preamp works fine. Got a Technics m6 cassette player for $25. And a pair of Klipsch tangent theatre speakers in the garbage. 2 mids and a dome tweeter...

On the theory that the on-board chip does the processing and the computer supplies the power/controls, I got the cheapest USB DAC I could find. It sounds pretty flawless and the only installation was plugging in the cable. Volume at the output is variable up to about 2x what the Mac Mini...

I need to provide holiday gift ideas. What are reasonably priced RCA interconnect cables and sources? Muchos Gracias!

Just one of those lucky combinations! I was just poking around on C.L. locally for a spell trying to put a cheap stereo together for girlfriends second residence. She being more focused on esthetics, it had to be unobtrusive. I put together an old Onkyo TX 21 and a pair of ADS L400s and magic...

Hello all, Does anyone have any brand names or models of low-priced stereo components from the late 60s early 70s? Something a high school kid could have bought at Woolworth's or somewhere similar. RCA? Kenwood was from Sears. Stereo components that he might move up to after his portable...

first time in many years I have a dedicated stereo system again. Not the sexiest but it was very cheap and works for now. All of what I bought I got thru my moms' cousin (whatever that makes him to me). He has owned "the local record shop" in the area for like, I don't know, 30 years now? It's...

picked up two RT-707’s yesterday and a ton of r2r tapes. There’s actually a lot of good music in the lot Jimi Hendrix, Dead concerts, Buffalo Springfield, Jazz, classic rock, etc. The whole lot including the pioneers was $30 just wanted to show off my score and see if anyone had advice on how...

Thrift Stores as a source of Audio Goodness? Please chime in!! Some folks be lookin down they snouts at thrift store scavengers and sayin this endeavor be a waste o' time and pesos. Well I be such a scavenger of thrift stores for several years now. And I have bought a speaker or two off...

The MG-09E cartridge gets brought up from time to time in budget cartridge threads, but no one really seems to really know or comment much about it. What are it’s tip dimensions? How does it sound? How does it track? What is it’s recommended VTF, even? I haven’t found very much at all, besides a...

Hi guys, music enthusiast & new here I'm looking for a first, nice sounding, low buck setup for my apartment. I think bookshelves speakers will be enough for the space. BEFORE EVERYTHING I know that it will not be a perfect setup, but I ain't got much cash and not everything is available nearby...

After the previous thread met an unfortunate demise, I figured it would be a waste to let all the info just vanish completely. Champagne Sound for Beer Money? Huh? For those of you that don't already know, it's possible to source an Audio-Technica AT3600L 1/2" mount cartridge with a .6 mil...

This question has probably been asked quite a couple of times, but I need help with my first real set up. I've been listening to music for as long as I can remember and have had a couple of cheap computer speakers for quite some time and as they stopped working I figured it was time for an...

There is a Velodyne CT-80 sub on the local Craigslist. They guy will take $75 for it and deliver it to me, so it's not an expense or inconvenience to acquire. I have two systems: A Harmon Kardon HK730 with a pair of NLA speakers. This is our livingroom system. A Harmon Kardon HK690i with...

Yes, there are different classes of quality when it comes to cassette decks. One one side we have the high end, with 3 heads, the best version of Dolby at the time, tons of options and controls. Then on the other side, we have the plastic "junkers" This is pretty obvious hahaha. But my point is...

NOT MY AUCTION - NO AFFILIATION - NO MONEY COMING MY WAY - NEVER BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE SELLER! If I was local I would buy this just because of the price. I am not and have never been one to buy things to flip, but this would be significant money in short order. I will let someone else be the...

Hi all, I currently have a SMSL SA-98 amp. It's got more power than I could ever want, but no tone controls. Is there a cheap (probably Chinese) tube preamp with tone controls that anyone can recommend? The only one I can find is this model, but it only has limited reviews. I currently use...

Some of us are poor. Very poor. Over the past couple years I've been scavenging which, of course, leads to being both thrilled and disappointed at the same time - thrilled at the gem that you got for peanuts, but disappointed in that you know it'll never fill the void. So I ask, what's the...

This will most likely be longer than a few paragraphs, but my journey in finding the right sort of dampening agents to stop resonance and skipping due to floor bounce was lengthy, but hopefully helpful. This post is not for audiophiles, but for someone who is either a novice TT owner, or a...

Hopefully, this is kosher, just found this great deal and can't take advantage of it myself so I'd thought I'd share in case anyone is close to Talhasee, Florida and in need of a new receiver. Found this Pioneer with only 2 hours left, on this site, bid is only up to 10.99 at the time of...

Having just read a thread about a being able to get a new copy of "Coda" by Led Zep for 7.99 ....it made me start to remember the budget reissue labels of the past and I wondered if people thought that new budget labels would start to spring up again? ......or are there some and I've not seen...