Any audiophiles out here?

[GuyandDoll]

No, not audio files, though those can be a blast. Are there any Lit folks who are audio hobbyists, obsessing over speaker cables and DACs and power conditioners? Anyone get turned on looking at McIntosh tube amps from the 1960s? Digital or analog?

I've been a Bryston and Maggies guy for a long time, though I'm currently enjoying leaning into some Raidho and Vandersteen speakers.

It's Lit so we know it's okay to be proud of your equipment ... all in good fun!

 

[Saint_Ann]

I still have my HPM 100s from the 70s. They hang in the garage. Occasionaly the birds will pry off the covers with their beaks and nest in the port. I still have the Technichs (?) turntable. I can believe I paid a hundred bucks for a stylus. It only has one channel. They are all that is left of that system.

I'm struggling with the whole concept of music right now. Maybe it's music's unholy hold over my emotions. It's the rare occasion anymore that I can create any form of music that satisifies me. I'm just not good enough at it and that only frustrates me.

Other people's music, the oldies, bore me. The new stuff...I am reluctant to let them in. Plus, I'm really cheap and being in a constant stereo arms race is of no interest to me.

Anyway...

 

[oggbashan]

I have my wind-up gramophone (and a deck that plays 78s). I am amazed that I can still hear recordings on the original disks made in the 1890s.

I know most have been reissued on LPs, CDs, and on the internet, but there is something about putting a 120-year-old piece of shellac on a player and hearing it.

 

[erostwo]

To the attention of:

Testimony discrepancies verbal exonerations off the record how do you feel? As opposed needs a walker!!! Willis ready...

Sitter's dead too

r.s.v.p.

 

[Saint Peter]

old and grumpy, just like me

rotel electronics
polk sda2.3 with fresh crossovers
b&w center
klipsch powered sub that is rarely on

 

[stickygirl]

I like having my ears rubbed, yes

 

[Saint_Ann]

old and grumpy, just like me

rotel electronics
polk sda2.3 with fresh crossovers
b&w center
klipsch powered sub that is rarely on

Someone go dig up Byron.

 

[RoryN]

Had a small room which could benefit from some tunes, so I got a pair of bookshelf speakers for $300 recently. They were supposedly reviewed by audiophiles as being comparable to some of the best they'd heard.

Could have been B.S. but I figured what the hell, I'll take a chance at that price. So far, they sound fantastic. I have them and a sub mated to a $800 Yamaha receiver that's one of their pure-audio-focused ones; no theater sound.

Eventually I'd like to have an all-vintage McIntosh set-up, but I've got other priorities...

 

[Saint_Ann]

Obituaries.

*nods*

 

[Saint Peter]

Someone go dig up Byron.

Byron loved the tube amps, gave me shit for my stuff being solid state.

I miss that dude.

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/-/media/Images/mcintoshlabs/Products/ProductImages/MC275B/MC275B-Angle.ashx?mh=482&mw=589

 

[RoryN]

Byron loved the tube amps, gave me shit for my stuff being solid state.

I miss that dude.

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/-/media/Images/mcintoshlabs/Products/ProductImages/MC275B/MC275B-Angle.ashx?mh=482&mw=589

Now we're talkin'!

 

[Philthy_Phil]

I have a '69 VTR-100. Works great for guitar, bass, vocals or as PA. 4 inputs . No neighbours sleep when taking it for burn.

 

[rockcasbah]

My two channel stereo uses Rogers bbc reference spec speakers and a Mac amp i bought new eons ago, plus a Yam bluetooth/tuner for aux and radio and a recent AT turntable for vinyl.

Home theatre is yamaha amp with polk mains, some other brand of center rears and sub.

Office system is more like a club/bar setup; a big yam amp through bose 901’s.

 

[Saint Peter]

your boy's boy band demo sounds great in every room.

 

[rockcasbah]

"demo" ???

https://youtu.be/sXwaRjU7Tj0

 

[Saint Peter]

lancie spice!

 

[rockcasbah]

lancie spice!

/reported

 

[thør]

Too many motors and rotary tools have taken their toll on my ears. Even AM radio sounds okay.