What did you start with? AKA... Your first legit stereo rig

00p225

Early 80's, Marantz 1060, Pioneer 2 ways, and used the turntable through tape out from a Sears all in one unit with cassette receiver and turntable. Still miss that 1060, but I pawned it when the power switch broke...........didn't they all? Then "upgraded" to a HK 570i receiver, Cerwin Vega D-3's, Akai DD turntable, and Technics deck with DBX.......The HK's 45wpc ran those Cerwins pretty well for parties etc.

Mike682

1)Pioneer vsx-4400 (still have it and turn it on sometimes)
2)pair of Scott speakers (8" bookshelf)
3)Sony dual tape deck
4)Pioneer cd player w/ 4times overampling
5) Sansui equalizer

I also had a radio shack power meter. It had red leds that measure wattage output. It went up to 200 watts.

dthomps

Though I amassed a quite a bit of gear in my first year of being into audio, I would have to say my first real stereo system consisted of:

A Proton av-445 Receiver
a Sony 5 CD Changer
and a pair of Monitor 5's.

It's gone through a few changes though, with the same speakers and CD player hooked up to a Carver HR-795 receiver at the moment. I am more than happy with it for a bedroom system.

scottnbnj

i always wanted to try proton but it just never worked out that way. i'll bet you had a pretty good thing going on there. yesterday i saw a used proton amp in the bin that made me ache,.. i missed again, cash had to go to a dvd/dvd-a player.

anyway, early 80's:
pioneer int. amp a-8, f-7 tuner, ct-8r tape
denon dp-60l turntable
shure V15, can't remember, type IV or V
kenwood eq, adc frequency spectrum analyzer
dbx 3bx dynamic range expander
jbl r-103 speaks
oh yeah, ar cordless remote control. way cool in those days.

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nicolasaldana

i need the manual of the stereo cassette deck sharp RT 1157.

Bill Ayotte

nicolasaldana wrote: »

i need the manual of the stereo cassette deck sharp RT 1157.

Try posting this in the Electronics Section, i will get more traffic there......

Since I'm here anyway....After the prerequisite cheap **** boombox......:D

Carver C-1 pre-amp
Carver M200t amp
Some ghetto-**** $5 Kenwood tuner
Some CDP along the saem lines as the tuner
Tannoy PBM-8 monitors

dorokusai

nicolasaldana wrote: »

i need the manual of the stereo cassette deck sharp RT 1157.

www.ebay.com

riglehart

One of these JVC, a TT, and some monitor 5s. Van Halen 1984 or Journey Escape was probably the first thing I spun on it. Those where the good ole days.

BottomFeeder

Mid 70's

Sherwood receiver (40 watts per?)
Garrard turntable
Lafayette speakers

Ooooh! Hot!

blakeh

ADCOM GFA-535II Amp
ADCOM GFP-565 Preamp
Nakamichi MB-2S CD Changer
Phase Technology 7T Floor Standing Speakers

That was back in 1993 or so. :eek:

engtaz

Carver 900 stereo reciever 90 watts ch
1980's ver Bose 601

SKsolutions

Sears speacial for 100$

Then in 1980's ish
Nikko intahgratid
Fisher canniblized TT
Teac tape with DolbyNR
Homemade speaks with 12"/4"/and 1" tweets

Serendipity

Receiver - Onkyo HT-R500
DVDP - Onkyo DV-CP500

Speakers - Onkyo SKS-HT500
Sub - Onkyo SKW-100

Ern Dog

3 year old thread comes back from the dead....

Systems

1980 Technics SA 101 reciever and SLB2 tt with Shure cartridge and no name 3way speakers.

First tunes might have been one of these AC/DC Back in Black,Judas Priest British Steel and Unleashed in the East,Rush Moving Pictures.

capecodder

All around 1973 vintage:
Pioneer SX 424
BSR something TT
Utah Speakers
Koss Pro4A Headphones

Stayed up most of the first week I had it just staring at the cool lights of the receiver.

Yashu

Oh this is cool...

Ok, I had some late 70's pioneer silver faced model (I forget the exact models) components, tape deck, turntable, and speakers (that I refoamed myself as a kid), with a late 80's pioneer receiver to connect it all to. I put a lot of work into restoring the speakers and the tape deck... and this was all when I was around ~8 years old on. My friends all made fun of me for not having a SeeDee player... I kept trying to show them how awsome my YES albums were... oh well.

I could not save the vintage pioneer tuner... I think it was the coolest component of the whole set, but as a kid, I just didn't have knowledge to fix it... The reciever had a digital one and I never considered the radio to be hifi until I discovered all the public and university stations here. I now have a 70's Sansui tuner hooked to my modern stuff. I guess things are cyclical sometimes. I still have the turntable. It is the only thing I kept from that old rig. I tried to fix it up, rewired some of it for a better power cord, gave it a fresh grado cartridge and it still sounds pretty good. I need to pull it out one of these days.

tonyb

Two tin cans with a string as an I/C.
Could never get it to sound right.:p

Polkitup2

1979 - Pioneer SX-680, DLK 1.5 speakers, Pioneer turntable

george daniel

1970,,,Sansui 5000x with AR 4x's,,,had it in my hootch in Viet Nam,,along with the "pig whomper"

Systems

Wow, this is kinda funny. I was looking at my old pictures recently and found one of my systems from 10 years ago:

I bought most of it at once:

Sony 53" TV (new)
Polk C350 (open box)
Polk rt12 (open box)
Energy sub (open box)
Polk surround (forgot model but they were small and white)

Kenwood AVR (one of the first 5.1 channel with DD and DTS
Kenwood 200 Disk CD changer (could do DTS disks)
Sony DVD player of some type
Something Else, don’t remember.


HTPC Back then I would actually experiment with an HTPC back when I bet 99.9% of AV people had no idea how to connect a PC to a system. I would put my new P3 450 system next to the TV and plug it in by S-Video and dink around.




I was only 24-25 at the time. It was my first component system of my own. I always had a lto of AV equipment even before moving into my first house as seen in the picture. But this was the first real system.

I think I dropped about $6000 on it total and it about killed me (couldn’t afford it very well).

Funny thing is that this thing rocked people. Most people I knew didn’t know HT systems could be so loud back then around here.

Systems

You know, my dad still has the stereo system that inspired my love of music. It was from at least 1975. I remember in the late 1970's (me being 5 to 7 years old) putting in the BG's 8 track into it and cranking it. Was silver with knobs and such. I’m going to see if he still has that thing.

Spacedeckman

The poor college kid system circ 1980.

A used h/k 330c (still have it), a used Kenwood TT (still in in folk's attic), and a pair of store brand speakers (the ones I wanted were sold out and on backorder...18 year old kids have no patience).

I should have waited, I was stuck with those #$&% speakers for years. My taste in speakers continually outpaced my budget to buy them. I replaced them with a pair of Maggie 2.5Rs.

Mark

sophie

polk monitor 10b's
adcom gfa 5500
adcom gtp 400
adcom gcd 600


got it over the summer

croftstone

Sony integrated amp (TA-1150, I think it was), Sony PS 5520 Belt Drive Turntable (still have this in mothballs) and Smaller Advent (4ohm) Loudspeakers, circa 1973

Later bought Tandberg 1040A Receiver (still in use)
B I C Formula Four speakers (blew midrange horns and couldn't find replacements)

hearingimpared

I can't remember but Pioneer this
and Pioneer that comes to mind
a Nak deck
plus an old kick **** Lafayette receiver. . .
. . . Infinity speakers & Yamaha monitors.

capecodder

Lasareath wrote: »

Before the CRS+'s that I pictured here I had 3-way speakers I made with Radio Shack parts when I was 13, they worked for 4 years and then I got the Polk's.

Sal

Kinda interesting that Lasareth "started" (impressive start) with the CRS+ and after 35ish years of various models they are now my "final" (I know, I know, nothing is ever "final" in this field) speaker in my main system. What a great speaker and perfect for my room layout and WAF.

markmarc

Pioneer SX-450 receiver
Technics cassette deck
Pioneer PL120 turntable
Pioneer HPM 10 (?) speakers, small 8 inch woofer)

First decent system:
Harman Kardon 680i receiver
JVC Auto reverse cassette deck
Pioneer PL120 Turntable w/ortofon cartridge
Polk 10B's

Mike53

Tour2ma wrote: »

Me... in the beginning... circa 1971...

Amp (kit) - Heathkit AA-15 integrated
Turntable - Garrard SL-72B (w/ dust cover)*
Cartridge - Pickering Model ???*
Speakers - Lafayette Radio Electronics 5-way crappo's
Tuner (kit) - Dynaco FM5*
Cassette Deck - Sony TC-134SD (early Dolby *

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Tour,

You're showing your age. I, too, started out in '71 with a; Lafayette receiver, a Garrard turntable & Pickering cartridge and Lafayette 3 element, 2 way bookshelf speakers (reasonably good sounding).

Still have the receiver, in my garage...works fine.

Mike

mhardy6647

So.. a four-year-old thread, resurrected. It's a miracle!

First hi-fi wasn't a stereo, but it sounded pretty good. From my later high school days (ca. 1975)

EICO HF-52 mono integrated amp (push-pull EL34)
1957 VM record changer fitted with BOTL Pickering conical MM cartridge (upgraded to a used Philips GA-308 tt when I had a little $)
Electrovoice "Wolverine" LS-12 in home-made BR enclosure.
mid-1970's era transistor VM AM-FM stereo tuner.

First stereo (purchased piecemeal in college between '77 and '80)

Yamaha CA-610II integrated amplifier
Philips AF-877 tt with Grado F1+ MI cartridge
Polk Monitor 7A speakers
Yamaha T-550 AM/FM stereo tuner
(Polk LF-14 subwoofer, too!)

Still have, and use, all of the college-era stuff listed (well... the subwoofer's in the basement, gathering dust)