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Office Stereo / Adcom 555II

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gyusher

-don't go round hungry-
Remember our discussion about the pros and cons of the Adcom GFA-555II? Well I put it in my office along with a pair of Sony SSTX7S MTMs. . .The Adcom makes it incredible instead of just great. . .I sit about 3 feet directly in front of this. BTW under the top is a new Velodyne CHT-8 Subwoofer I bought to just warm it up a little and that it does. A great little sub. . .flat to 25hz in this 9x9 room. . . .I keep changing around in here and so far this is the best sounding system I have had in here by far. . .Still need to upgrade my CD player. . .TurnTable is just to the right on the side wall. . . ..I can work in sonic bliss in here. . .Not done yet. . .I will keep tinkering. . .
 
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Interesting Telefunken tuner. Have you got a shortwave antenna hooked up yet? How well does the SW work?
 
SW

I only use its builtin antenna so far but at night it is interesting on short wave. . . .I plan to put an antenna on it at some point. Thats a great little tuner, not expensive but works as good as any I have had. Especially AM. . . . I do listen to AM late night . . . .Some strange things on after midnight. . .
I only use about one watt max so you would think almost anything would work in here but not so, the smaller ones do work and I am sure there are veryy fine amps with much lower power that would work fine if not better but nothing I have works better. Besides my new speakers are only 82db and need power so the 555II is still a keeper. . . .I ordered all new interconnects and wires last night. I wont mention the brand as I dont want to get in one of those discussions. I did want good wire and interconnects for consistency reasons if nothing else. If I notice differences from the wires I will post that and we can argue about it awhile. . .LOL. . .
 
Avitar

BTW has anyone noticed my 60,000.00 dollar Avitar?? My brother owns a classic car lot in Eugene, Oregon. . .
http://www.summersclassiccars.com/

Check it out. . .Dont wet your pants. . .Tell me he isnt having a ball. . .I love to visit as he lets me use anything on his lot while I am there. . .this little 55 is some good!
 
Far Out!!! I always wanted to move to Eugene....:D

Great site with great cars...not for the faint of heart (or the weak of wallet either!!)
 
Funny, the only car on the entire page that turns my head and I'd want is the least expensive. Several of the others I had as a kid, been there, done that.
 
Off track

I know I got us a little off track but I couldnt resist. I am 10 years older than my brother and I had many muscle cars when they were new. It was always great scareing the crap out of my little brother. . .Now he scares the crap out oif me and he has them all and having a ball at the same time making much money. . . .
 
I have a brother in Oregon also but he is the natural enemy of the automobile so I won't tell him about your brother's lot...:D
 
natural enemy of the automobile

Gary,
What does he do. . ??? Is it that he doesnt like them or have no buisness owning one>??>
 
Yeah - the Chevy's Ok but I wanna '71 'Cuda hard top in Curious Yellow w. black interior & a 383 an' Carter Thermo-Quad, an' a hockey stick on the sides.

See if he's got one for less than $25,000.


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audioGeek

Go to his website and eMail him. . . My stepson has the mopar stuff but little brother sells them for him. . . .Besides all you got to do is tell him Skip sent you. . .You will get the best deal in the house. . . . .
 
Another upgrade

Well after the addition of a Rotel RT-02 Tuner and new banana plugs from PE its comming around. This Rotel tuner sounds better than some of my CDs. . . .Starting to scare me now. I mean this is a budget setup thats starting to sound as good as the high priced spread!
 
i like the looks of the speakers. They look very nice. that would be a great lil system i bet it sounds pretty good :D
 
Speakers

1 year ago if you told me that I would sing the praises of any Sony speaker let alone buy one, I would have told you that yoiu were nuts. while searching for a center channel speaker I came across these on eBay listed as a high end no name speaker with a BIN of 249.99 each. . .Starting bid was 80 bucks so being new to eBay I bid 80 bucks and won one. Once I got it and found it to be a high end overseas Sony SSTX7S with a great review and this guy sounded wonderful. . .I bought about 10 or 12 more, sold a few to friends at cost, which at that amount was down to about 65 bucks each. I put 7 of them in my HT system and WOW!! it came alive with a SVS sub, no bass. . . I pulled two out of my HT and put a couple JBL S312IIs in. Now with two of these I put them in my office with a little Velodyne sub and I for one am very impressed. I know there are better speakers but this excercise was to build as good of a system as I could on a budget. Right now I dont have 500 bucks total in this system. . .
 
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