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11-07-2020, 12:50 PM | #23 | |
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Showed up today. Probably going to wait until the anthem shows up before I set it up. It's huge compared to my old Epson. [IMG][/IMG]
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I love seeing all the stuff you guys play with when you're not messing with cars!
I've been a two-channel JBL guy for over 60-years and I'm currently running a pair of bi-amped 4345 4-ways with 18-inch woofers powered by Crown PS400 and PS200 amps with Soundcraftsman Pro-Control Four pre and Pro-EQ 44 equalizer using an Ashly XR-1001 crossover. My TV room has a modest VISIO with a simple two-channel setup currently using JBL L5s powered by a JBL/Urei 6260 through a Crown PSL-2 pre-amp. Old School, I know, but then I started driving and riding BMWs in 1971! Here's the big JBL: |
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11-11-2020, 09:12 PM | #26 | |
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11-12-2020, 06:36 AM | #27 |
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I'm old school in everything as I think about it. I have two boats, both are 50 years old, my 993 is 24 years old. My tube set up is newish at about 10 years old, but I just gave my 26 year old son a set of Klipsch Forte's with the Crites updates, and a small tube amp for him to experience what my youth and listening to music was like. So far he's loving it. As I posted earlier I have a Synthesis Tube amp with Zu Omen Def speakers which I am really loving. My HT set up is old now too I just realized. My space has always been small and my wife tolerates the big speakers in the living room so HT is a 60" Sony Bravia LCD (10 years old now) a Yamaha HT amp and Bose cubes.....my buddy just did a really cool basement reno/man cave with a sauna, whisk(e)y room (his line of work), pool table and HT rig with Epson projector his speakers are Klipsch in wall and ceiling, with some small Bose up front and a big sub. His wife doesn't like speakers or wires being scene anywhere.
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11-12-2020, 07:54 AM | #28 | |
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11-12-2020, 11:38 AM | #29 |
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Screen is 108 inch and the room is light controlled. Good to hear because some of the complaints are it might not be bright enough .
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11-12-2020, 12:09 PM | #30 |
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If you're going to go old school, go Old School.
My receiver is a Marantz 2325, *completely* restored. My father bought it new in 1976 and then stored it when it had a component failure about 20 years later. He eventually gifted it to me and I waited over two years to have a very, very, VERY OCD Marantz expert restore it to better than new condition-- we used the best of everything on any replacement components. Fun fact about the Marantz of that era. The 2325 is spec'd at 125 W/channel at 8 ohms. But what really happened is that Marantz would take a random sampling of their receivers, bench test them for days, and where the first one started to clip, that's what they rated the power output as. In other words-- they're *monstrously* overpowered. When we bench tested mine, it ran continuously at about 165W/ channel-- and that's RMS, not peak. When I turn the receiver on, the lights in the room literally dim for a couple of seconds-- the capacitors in that beast are the size of coke cans. My speakers are a pair of KEF Reference Series 104/2's that I've completely refurbished (new speaker surrounds, rebuilt ferrofluid tweets, rebuilt w/ matching crossover components, etc. They're like most high-end speakers from the '80's- they need a *lot* of power to do them justice. I used to run them with a variety of modern Yamaha receivers and they sounded fine, but the first time I fired them up using the Marantz, I almost cried-- I heard things I'd *never* heard before on a bunch of audio tracks I use for reference (Adele, Sarah McLachlan, Boston, Roxy Music). It's a combination made in heaven, and the fact that the components have a personal history with me makes it even better. R. |
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A few pics of the innards, including the monster capacitors:
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There's a great guy for vintage gear (and KEF 😜 in Baltimore Maryland called Just Audio. Lenny even puts out a cool video catalog of their vintage inventory on YouTube. They'll ship whatever you're interested in too.
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I put up my new screen yesterday. I can't believe how much bigger it looks. It's going to take a few days to adjust. [IMG][/IMG]
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11-15-2020, 03:46 PM | #38 |
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Here's my setup
Rotel receiver and amp, dual Hsu subs, Bowers 600 series speakers, Projekt turn table, Pioneer plasma. |
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Signed too on the edge and it has the Herman Miller plate in the leg.
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