Hello from North Idaho

[spicer]

I have a mixed bag of stuff, but I've recently gotten back into vinyl. I say, "back into", but I never had any good quality equipment, back in the day My folks did, but I just had a record player when I was a kid and then, of course, moved to cassettes. My sound for my PC is run through a Denon AVR with a couple of Paradigm speakers hanging off of it. My stereo in my office is a Marantz SR-48 MkII and Marantz PMD371 CD Changer running through a set of Pioneer CS-66G speakers. I just had a friend send me a Technics SL-220 turntable and he's been shipping me vinyl, but I'm waiting on a new cartridge for that. I've been digging into Prog Rock a bit, but my music taste runs through much of the spectrum.

Edit: Oh, and I just picked up a JVC R-S11 receiver for 26 bucks at a local auction that powers on, but I haven't had a chance to test it beyond that.

Your parents exposed you to it and the spirit lives. You have a decent system for listening and the PC system is way beyond those little desktop speakers. For my PC I use a Heathkit AA-22 integrated amplifier powering a pair of floor sitting Infinity 5000s, three way 12" from later 70s. Decent sound is addicting.

 

[Mr.Heatsink]

Welcome to AK! You'll learn plenty here and then some.

 

[Dswankey]

@joetro

Welcome aboard!!!

Tis a beautiful part of the country you live in, many summers ago I got to spend some time a little north of you in the Sandpoint-Lake Pend Oreille region.

 

[joetro]

@joetro

Welcome aboard!!!

Tis a beautiful part of the country you live in, many summers ago I got to spend some time a little north of you in the Sandpoint-Lake Pend Oreille region.

It sure was, but it has gotten horribly crowded over the last several years.

 

[joetro]

Your parents exposed you to it and the spirit lives. You have a decent system for listening and the PC system is way beyond those little desktop speakers. For my PC I use a Heathkit AA-22 integrated amplifier powering a pair of floor sitting Infinity 5000s, three way 12" from later 70s. Decent sound is addicting.

Thank you. As an IT guy, I don't typically settle for the norm, LOL. As for music formats, I love them all and use most of them as far back and including my three portable Victrola phonographs. I'm using "Victrola" as a blanket term as only one of them is a true Victrola branded machine. I'm the same way with video formats, since I still have VHS, as well as Laserdisc and 16mm film projectors.

 

[spicer]

Thank you. As an IT guy, I don't typically settle for the norm, LOL. As for music formats, I love them all and use most of them as far back and including my three portable Victrola phonographs. I'm using "Victrola" as a blanket term as only one of them is a true Victrola branded machine. I'm the same way with video formats, since I still have VHS, as well as Laserdisc and 16mm film projectors.

I keep the ability to use old formats too, a combination of versatility for my system and appreciation and familiarity for older technology. I don't have 16 mm film projection but do have eight and super eight which has been appreciated a number of times by people desiring digital copies of their film archives. One person I know had quite a bit of super and regular eight film of their time in Vietnam and early family movies, they were delighted to have someone with interest convert them to digital providing them the files as well as DVDs. The family stuff was regular eight made with a hand wound Kodak eight mm from the fifties, movie version of the Hawkeye, the Vietnam is super eight produced on a Canon super eight using cartridges and had 8 times power zoom, fully adjustable settings for exposure with auto options, etc., like one of their 35 mm cameras, it used eight AA batteries. The Vietnam film is quite interesting, a you are there experience capturing much of the day to day activities of military life by one who was living it. He was there in 1968-1970. The guy is a natural archivist, many stills to augment the film.