This joint needs some more vintage hifi

[Deleted User]

saved from the scrap heap today;

Specifications
Power output: 100 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo)
Frequency response: 10Hz to 100kHz
Total harmonic distortion: 0.01%
Damping factor: 40
Input sensitivity: 0.25mV (MC), 2.5mV (MM), 150mV (line)
Signal to noise ratio: 68dB (MC), 86dB (MM), 105dB (line)
Speaker load impedance: 4Ω to 16Ω
Year: 1984

It has a subsonic filter!

mhardy6647

A Nikko I've never seen before...

[Deleted User]

sounds harsh to these old ears w/ the RT-7s hooked up to them.
I haven't cleaned anything yet... o.k. at 3-4 on the volume dial.
It has this mono...stereo...wide pot?!
It can do MM/MC. It seems like the one's I recall except bars instead
of VU meters. It's also not much of a looker. Could be headed for
the garage.

soundfreak1

Just picked this up today.

Polkie2009

rednedtugent wrote: »

sounds harsh to these old ears w/ the RT-7s hooked up to them.
I haven't cleaned anything yet... o.k. at 3-4 on the volume dial.
It has this mono...stereo...wide pot?!
It can do MM/MC. It seems like the one's I recall except bars instead
of VU meters. It's also not much of a looker. Could be headed for
the garage.

I remember these Nikko units and you're spot on Red about Nikko going with the digital led bars instead of vu meters in the early 80's. I had a Nikko cassette recorder in 1983 with the led bar meters.

leftwinger57

This is quite true.
I must have an early/mid 70s NIKKO 6065 receiver @34 watts a side. There is a beautiful green diffuser w/ a signal strength and tuning meters that work. I call my receiver a poor man's Marantz 2xxx series.

[Deleted User]

I have crap cables on it right now and haven't cleaned it up yet but, did anyone find a good pairing for this Nikko? It's got some stupid laminate on that didn't hold up well after 30 years. (no foresight) That 6065 at 34 watts looks real nice LW57. That mid 70's sound is what I started with.

cnh

leftwinger57 wrote: »

This is quite true.
I must have an early/mid 70s NIKKO 6065 receiver @34 watts a side. There is a beautiful green diffuser w/ a signal strength and tuning meters that work. I call my receiver a poor man's Marantz 2xxx series.

Nice looking receiver! One of the few makers I have yet to hear. But, supposedly, Nikkos are one of those brands that flies under the radar. It's hard to find a "bad" sounding '70s Japanese receiver IMO.

Polkie2009

Nikko made some decent power amps in the higher end of the Alpha line if I recall.

pumpkinman

Picked up a pair of 7C's. Pics later.

mhardy6647

Polkie2009 wrote: »

Nikko made some decent power amps in the higher end of the Alpha line if I recall.

The Nikko Gamma tuners were also good to great and are not that widely known.

pumpkinman

pumpkinman wrote: »

Picked up a pair of 7C's. Pics later.

cnh

pumpkinman wrote: »

pumpkinman wrote: »

Picked up a pair of 7C's. Pics later.

Congrats! They're certainly "favorites" in my house!

Enjoy!

[Deleted User]

Nice! Gotta get the 7's back in the mix myself.
Well done.

boston1450

Klh model 23's & Advent Advent1's. Typical plant pot stain on klh's otherwise they look great. Advents need surrounds so add it to the project list. Hope to try the klh's on the sansui later & maybe on the tube amp if i like the sound. I enjoy Advents alot so im wondering how these guys sound. Gonna test tweets before i put too much into them.

cnh

Very nice!

KLH have a very smooth/musical sound that LOVES tubes. I've been trying to find a lower powered tube amp (on the cheap) for my KLH 17s (while they sound nice on vintage ss amps-they go to the next level on decent tube equipment)-they won't have that razor sharp resolution and detail of a modern speaker but you "won't care"!

Plus the 23s have nice cabinetry. Rumor has it they're more the size of a KLH 6? So a little bigger with more bottom end than my 17s.

And Advents benefit from a little power. I run mine on a Pioneer SX 3900 (120 watts x 2).

Enjoy. (Oh, I know mhardy doesn't like the Advents but every collector should have one good set, IMO. Especially if you're a big Kloss fan, which I am).

mhardy6647

I just don't like them as much as Polks ;- )

And yes, I have some Advents here -- coupla pair, actually. They're very common in the Boston area (imagine that).

[Deleted User]

this is more of a local blast from the past...

pumpkinman

@mhardy6647

You really seem to know your vintage HiFi. I have a pair of the large Advents with the ''fried egg tweeter'' (if I'm using the correct slang). But mine are not the usual color. How many diff. types of tweeters did they use ??

pumpkinman

DSkip wrote: »

Mr. H just talks a good game

Well he sure fooled me then "but" then again that's not all that diff. to do.

mhardy6647

pumpkinman wrote: »

@mhardy6647

You really seem to know your vintage HiFi. I have a pair of the large Advents with the ''fried egg tweeter'' (if I'm using the correct slang). But mine are not the usual color. How many diff. types of tweeters did they use ??

Criminy, he's on to me! :-P

There'a a great thread on "identifying your Advents" on the Speaker forum at audiokarma; I think it's a sticky there (i.e., easy to find); that can probably help.

I am not all that "up" on Advents 'cause, with Matthew P. & company in the hood, they really weren't all that popular by the mid-70s in B-more.

The other excellent resource is www.classicspeakerpages.net for many New England loudspeaker brands.

[Deleted User]

in an attempt to get the Com-tech 810 testing done in the bedroom with getting busted by the wifey.

soundfreak1

Is this vintage or just old??? LOL. 1978/79

cnh

rednedtugent wrote: »

in an attempt to get the Com-tech 810 testing done in the bedroom with getting busted by the wifey.

Nice! And nice Tigers, etc. Reminds me of when I had to come back from a year in the PRC with a GIANT White Tiger plush that I had bought my daughter for X-mas in Beijing (it was the year of the Tiger). Wasn't sure security was going to let her on the plane with that, but it's in her room at home today!

mhardy6647

... sort of like the reindeer pelt I picked up at Arlanda (the airport) in Stockholm when I was spending a fair amount of time working with Swedish collaborators. I had kept looking at them in the airport shop; they were (are) very beautiful and very inexpensive. I finally bought one.

I fretted all the flight home about what I'd say about it to US Customs. When we landed at BOS, we hit Customs and Immigration just behind a planeload of passengers from some Central or South American point of origin. I told the agent I had a reindeer pelt and he laughed pretty hard. "Did you see the stuff the previous planeload were trying to bring in?" he said. Of my pelt, all he wanted to know was "Is it alive?"

"Not currently" I replied cheerfully, and he waved me on through.

mhardy6647

back on topic -- these found me yesterday.

Koss CM1030s by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

cnh

I've always been curious about the Kloss speakers. You see them come up once in a while on CL. Tell us what you think.

Cleaning house today, I decided to dust off the Realistic STA-2270 and was pleasantly surprised that a mid-eighties receiver still had the sound of older Ratshack products. This was probably the last gasp before the Black-faced age?

mhardy6647

Yeah pretty much.

Initial impressions of the Koss; not bad.

cnh

Right, John Koss not Henry Kloss, lol! My what an interesting yet understandable slip! Have Henry on the brain.

boston1450

Mark those look huge. How heavy are those ? Beautiful speaker
EDIT: what model are those ?