This joint needs some more vintage hifi

FestYboy

Yes Polk. One of 2 ever made.

My dad and I were fortunate enough to be given a tour of the "new" facility (before they move again into a larger space) today. I heard some things, saw some other things. Very enjoyable.

mhardy6647

Yeah, on second (third!) look, I did remember why/where I'd seen it before

Polkaguy58

Thats a nice rack.............and the stereo's not bad either.

pumpkinman

Pulled the Sansui AU-9500 down off the shelf and I'm making sure it's OK before taking up on 2nd floor.

mhardy6647

Not a very common amplifier; I don't think I've ever seen/heard one in the -- umm -- flesh.

tonyp063

I don't remember ever buying this, but evidently I did. In the '70's
I have not been able to find any useful info on teh webz, so here you go
@mhardy6647 , any ideas?

leftwinger57

As you dudes were yapping about turn tables I remembered there was an old thread of the ten worst things we used to do to tt. Well I chimed in because I didn't see the 2 most obvious ones. # 1. high spindle stacking. Hey my thinking back then, if the machine was made to do that then drop they will. Obviously not so good for both the mushing of LPs and the extra weight for the motor. #2. The world famous instant anti-skating device known to man kind. Scotch taping a penny to the shell head of the cart. This was for dance parties and I don't think I did this to my Dual 1225 But for sure did it w/ my Zenith drop top suitcase thing. DOC whip up a picture of that thing, I couldn't find it anywhere and you've got the vintage ad thing down... Lew

steveinaz

I owned one of these in the 80's and it was so beautiful I would sit and stare at it. Each tape could optimized with adjustments on the front. dbx noise reduction as well. TEAC Z6000:

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Teac made some nice decks. Reminds me of the deck I had around that time. It was a Harman Kardon CD-491. Another fairly nice component stolen by my roommate at the time. HK was, i think, a much better brand back then. They seem to have become more of a cheap alternative and don't offer anything special.

tonyb

steveinaz wrote: »

I owned one of these in the 80's and it was so beautiful I would sit and stare at it. Each tape could optimized with adjustments on the front. dbx noise reduction as well. TEAC Z6000:

Did the vintage mancave ever make it to the new joint ? I seem to recall you had a decent vintage setup.

Tony M

^^^^
I had some of that HK series also. Super heavy and compact and dependable after all these years too. There's a following for that series.

steveinaz

tonyb wrote: »

Did the vintage mancave ever make it to the new joint ? I seem to recall you had a decent vintage setup.

No...but I still have the equipment, to include the MINT Pioneer 8-track player that the late, GREAT George Grand gave me.

mhardy6647

I am certifiable...

DSC_0345 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

DSC_0340 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

It's not quite as bad as it looks -- the Duplex's treble drivers are disconnected.

Tony M

Sure you don't mean " Bonefide"?

Tony M

They look like "war of the worlds" spaceship laser spray generators.

But if they sound great, that's all that matters, right.

mhardy6647

... and that's why the hifi room is separate from the rest of the house.

Tony M

Is it connected to the house?

pumpkinman

Phillips CD-i 910 picked this up today for a $1


From Wikipedia:
The Philips CD-i (an abbreviation of Compact Disc Interactive) is an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V., who supported it from December 1991 into the late 1990s. It was created to provide more functionality than an audio CD player or game console, but at a lower price than a personal computer with a CD-ROM drive at the time. The cost savings were due to the lack of a floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, and monitor (a standard television is used), and less operating system software. "CD-i" also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony.

audioluvr

Family heirloom

mhardy6647

Tony M wrote: »

Is it connected to the house?

oh, yes... but it's got its own stairway & a door

mhardy6647

DSC_0342 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
DSC_0337 (3) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

I feel like such an apostate -- those are JBL drivers -- and JBL horns.

verb

audioluvr wrote: »

Family heirloom

Nice!!!
My other emerging passion:


Philco 41-290. In the shop getting a complete chassis rebuild. AM/FM/SW bands.

audioluvr

verb wrote: »

My other emerging passion:


Philco 41-290. In the shop getting a complete chassis rebuild. AM/FM/SW bands.

Beautiful!

pumpkinman

My $15.90 Sansui SP-2000 speakers
Someone removed the spring loaded connectors in favor of what looks like a headphone jack. So I took one apart. Removed it and added binding posts. This way I could try one out.
I need to make a parts list for the crossover.

Question to those in the know. I’m thinking of using the same kind of caps. Inexpensive electrolytics. I don’t know that I want to sink a lot of money in them.

Opinions ?????

Tony M

I love those older speakers with wooden grills. Motown sounds especialy good on them. I've owned a ton of brands and models over the years. I wish I didn't have to sell some of my big ones. I just bought a Sansui 3500 set I think they were. Mint in the boxes from the original owner. I loved their sound but a guy I sell stuff to every once in a while came and loved them and off they went pretty quick.

Unscrew the grill and let us see the speakers. They should be in mint cond. although, maybe dusty.

Tony M

They should look like these;

Tony M

For a review and stats:
http://stereonomono.blogspot.hk/2011/06/sansui-sp-2000.html

pumpkinman

Tony M

Get an older receiver that is warm sounding ( Luxman, etc. ) and those will sound good for classic Rock and Motown.

I've cleaned the dust out of a few of those huge ports!

What designers came up with back then...

pumpkinman

Tony M wrote: »

Get an older receiver that is warm sounding ( Luxman, etc. ) and those will sound good for classic Rock and Motown.

I've cleaned the dust out of a few of those huge ports!

What designers came up with back then...

I already have several old Sansui’s.