Shop system pics?

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edited March 2013 in The Clubhouse
I was really shocked by this little sytem I put together.

HK300 AVR (July 1997).
Adcom CDP with Furutech copper male plug (AC plug).
Klipsch KG 1.5's hanging from the ceiling upside down (factory anchors mind you:cheesygrin:).
My digital cable (Neotech pure silver solid core/teflon, LOK silver rca plurs).
Nordost flatline speaker cable.

I had this system in my kitchen originally, and moved it to my indoor shop area today, holy crap!
Sounds totally different!

17' x 12W room.

What a remarkable AVR!

Not the best at all, but awesome considering!
It was 4 years old when I bought it.
Now its "Sweet 16"!
:eek:


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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2013
    The CDP is sitting on Racquetballs, cut in half!:redface:

    Sometimes, redneck works (notice there is no shelf under the CDP)!:smile:
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited March 2013
    What is the model number of the Neotech wire you used for the digital cable Paul?
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    Taken from a recent Audioholics reply regarding "Club Polk" and Polk speakers:
    "I'm yet to hear a Polk speaker that merits more than a sentence and 60 seconds discussion." :\
    My response is: If you need 60 seconds to respond in one sentence, you probably should't be evaluating Polk speakers.....


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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2013
    Scroll down to to 24 ga. solid core silver/teflon.

    http://www.soniccraft.com/products/wire/chassis/neotech.htm

    Shield it with some excellent rca plugs, TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!!!!!.:cheesygrin:
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  • begbie
    begbie Posts: 630
    edited March 2013
    I had the same Harmon Kardon but sold it off. Still miss it. That model actually came out around 2001.

    You can see it has DTS 5.1 and DD 5.1 plus a dvd input which all wasn't available in 1997.
    Polk Rt800i -Fronts
    Polk cs400i -Center
    Polk fx500i -side surrounds
    Polk rc60i -rear surrounds
    Onkyo TX-NR 1009 (9.2) receiver
    Velodyne cht12
    Polk psw111
  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2013
    begbie wrote: »
    I had the same Harmon Kardon but sold it off. Still miss it. That model actually came out around 2001. You can see it has DTS 5.1 and DD 5.1 plus a dvd input which all wasn't available in 1997.

    Want to see a pic o the orginal HK sticker?
    1997.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2013
    begbie wrote: »
    I had the same Harmon Kardon but sold it off. Still miss it. That model actually came out around 2001.

    You can see it has DTS 5.1 and DD 5.1 plus a dvd input which all wasn't available in 1997.

    Sorr man, my bad.
    1999 (Party like its:lol:!)

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  • begbie
    begbie Posts: 630
    edited March 2013
    Yeah thinking back mine said August 2000, so +/- 1 off by one year.

    I knew it wasn't 97 though. Way too many premium features for a 1997 receiver back then. I only know cause I sold this receiver back in my retail sales days.

    Enjoy.
    Polk Rt800i -Fronts
    Polk cs400i -Center
    Polk fx500i -side surrounds
    Polk rc60i -rear surrounds
    Onkyo TX-NR 1009 (9.2) receiver
    Velodyne cht12
    Polk psw111
  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited March 2013
    What speaker wire are you using? Looks to be flat, possibly ribbon cable, or copper foil?
    "Science is suppose to explain observations not dismiss them as impossible" - Norm on AA; 2.3TL's w/sonicaps/mills/jantzen inductors, Gimpod's boards, Lg Solen SDA inductors, RD-0198's, MW's dynamatted, Armaflex speaker gaskets, H-nuts, brass spikes, Cardas CCGR BP's, upgraded IC Cable, Black Hole Damping Sheet strips, interior of cabinets sealed with Loctite Power Grab, AI-1 interface with 1000VA A-L transformer
  • goofyGAguy
    goofyGAguy Posts: 545
    edited March 2013
    Looks like Nordost flatline.
    My humble setup...

    ...is no more. :cry:
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    edited March 2013
    basementhifi1a.jpg

    It's been mothballed for a while in preparation for the Big Move...

    Philips AF-877 tt
    Yamaha CDC-500 (IIRC) CD changer (dump find)
    Sony dual well cassette deck of some type (from my father's 'estate')
    Sansui TU-717 tuner (came bundled with my long-gone Klipsch Cornwalls, long ago)
    Sherwood S-5500II 7591pp stereo integrated amp (nice amp)
    Sony TC-353D reel to reel (eBay, reliving my first-ever reel to reel deck)

    Speakers (not really visible) are a very nice pair of Allison Ones (also from my favorite local emporium)


    ... and keen eyes may spot that the system, when this lousy photo was taken, was Warren Zevon's great live album Stand in the Fire, originally released ca. 1980.
    :-)
  • Tbone289
    Tbone289 Posts: 661
    edited March 2013
    pepster wrote: »
    What a remarkable AVR!

    Not the best at all, but awesome considering!
    It was 4 years old when I bought it.
    Now its "Sweet 16"!
    :eek:

    I have an Onkyo AVR from that era that I feel the same about. It's in a box in the basement awaiting my shop system build.
    2.1: PC>Schiit Gungnir MB>Schiit Freya Noval>NAD C-270>Ascend Acoustics Sierra-1, HSU STF-2 5.1: HDMI Bitstream>Denon AVR-1910>polkaudio RTE55, CS350-LS, RT3, HSU STF-2, Visio M55-F0
  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited March 2013
    pepster wrote: »
    The CDP is sitting on Racquetballs, cut in half!:redface:

    Sometimes, redneck works (notice there is no shelf under the CDP)!:smile:

    I thought about doing that a bunch. Might buy some for my cdp that just came in. It probably wont work as well as Sorbathane, but its a heck of a lot cheaper.....

    Or steal some of my Dad's :biggrin:....
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)