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Budget Vintage HiFi setup

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Here's my vintage HiFi setup. Recently acquired my dream tt, a 1967 Acoustic Research XA. Setup consists of:

Marantz 2215 receiver, Advent/3 speakers, AR/XA tt, Teac A-150 deck.

The speakers are pretty powerful for their size and pretty damn loud, I live in a top floor apartment so if I went any bigger my neighbors would hate me. The Marantz is a nice little unit, just enough power for me with a warm sound. Still pretty new to the audio game but I'm happy with my setup so far.

As for my collection, mishmash of genres. From ambient to black metal. All killer, no filler.

Spinning "Deceit" by This Heat.
 
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looks great, and I bet it all sounds good like you say. Good synergy there I'm thinking.

For the sake of appearance, save your pennies for a wood case for that Marantz, it will really tie the look together.
 
Dingman said:
looks great, and I bet it all sounds good like you say. Good synergy there I'm thinking.

For the sake of appearance, save your pennies for a wood case for that Marantz, it will really tie the look together.
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Thank you! I agree, the WC is all that's missing. Those things do not come cheap.
 
And I missed that your avatar is Mt Tam above the bay--nice. Lived in San Rafael and the Berkeley for ages, miss it still!
 
malvo said:
And I missed that your avatar is Mt Tam above the bay--nice. Lived in San Rafael and the Berkeley for ages, miss it still!
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I do love it here very much, born and raised in CA! It's actually the cover art to Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's album, Evening Star. But maybe they looked to Mt. Tam for inspiration :D
 
CA native here too, San Rafael. Came east after grad school for work--it's fine out here, but not quite the same. I stumbled across a nice copy for a reasonable price of Music For Airports a few weeks back and it's been on heavy rotation around here--clearly going to have to track this Eno/Fripp album down as well, not least for the lovely cover. Will be out in the bay area for a week visiting the fam at xmas time. I'm already making my hiking list...
 
Yes, do yourself a favor and check out Evening Star. It's such a beautiful album. My wife and I lived in Baltimore for a year while she finished up a grad program. It's important to see how people get along and how different things are on the other side of the country. Not a fan of the super cold winters or super humid summers. We do love DC and NYC though, we have friends out there.
 
Nice, minimal setup (and thoughtfully arranged as well—)

I know it's generally not advised to put things on top of speakers, but the plants really add an updated 70s vibe—love it! (And I bet it ups the WAF a few notches, as well, lol.) How do they sound on top of the wood boxes? For a bit I had my Dynaco A-25XLs on top of wood enclosures, and I found that the bass got too boomy and had too move them off...

Oh, and welcome to the brotherhood of the AR XA :thumbsup:
 
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