All it took was $75 to glimpse the Rabbit Hole.
Jimbo18
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A few weeks ago, I bought a Sharp integrated and tuner pair along with the stand they were on. $75 on CL. Nostalgia for the silver face I used to own many years ago.
Just got them for my wife for background music. I have some decent surround equipment, mainly bought here on the forum off generous sellers, or off CL and most of my listening has been TV and movies, not music.
I added some Polk S-15 Signature speakers to the Sharp setup and a 20-yr. old Sony CD player. About $200 for the whole setup. Sounds good for the money, but............. yeah, there it is, I see the hole now.
Just got them for my wife for background music. I have some decent surround equipment, mainly bought here on the forum off generous sellers, or off CL and most of my listening has been TV and movies, not music.
I added some Polk S-15 Signature speakers to the Sharp setup and a 20-yr. old Sony CD player. About $200 for the whole setup. Sounds good for the money, but............. yeah, there it is, I see the hole now.
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It’s not a rabbit hole... it’s quicksand, and many of us are stuck in it up to our necks with no hope of rescue. We just keep pulling others down with us.
I suggest looking at some Magnepan and Pass Labs....The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
nooshinjohn wrote: »It’s not a rabbit hole... it’s quicksand, and many of us are stuck in it up to our necks with no hope of rescue. We just keep pulling others down with us.
I suggest looking at some Magnepan and Pass Labs....
Yeah. I for one keep getting sucked in! Thanks John!
Nice score on wifey’s setup @Jimbo18 !Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD. -
Is that the little 15 wpc Sharp?
An old, old friend of mine bought one of those at the Stereo Discounters Show and Sale in Timonium, MD (long, long ago) for $99 -- for his mom
Most of the Sharp hifi stuff sold in the US was branded "Optonica" in those days, as I recall -- other than the "computer controlled cassette deck" (which was sold under both brand names)
https://audio-heritage.jp/SHARP/index.html
"From Sharp minds come Sharp products"
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Stereo Discounters Show and Sale
Good times!!!Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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I still have a couple of things I bought there. Well, at least one thing -- which still works (surprisingly well, actually)
an old Zenith-branded VHS HiFi VCR Audio-Video Recorder. Makes (and plays back) a mean audio tape still, it does.
holidaydubbing121209 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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ahh... I missed it... til now.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »ahh... I missed it... til now.
I replaced the weird "5 way" speakers with S15's and added the Sony CD player. And some better wires.
Nothing special, but it was fun. However, if I got a better integrated and maybe added a sub...............and so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut liked to say.
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I've never seen that exact Sharp amplifier (FWIW).
This is the one I remember (again, FWIW).
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/sharp/sm-1122h.shtml
(borrowed image; same tuner, it looks like? EDIT, well, the tuners I found pitchers of online all have long-wave tuners -- i.e., European models )
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The little amp has, I read, between 35 - 45wpc. It drives the S15's with ease, I can barely get it to 9 o'clock. I like the looks of the amp you posted.
