Is Sony 555 CD player too old?

[joseph logston]

think you so much i am 65 retired tile setter been in audio for at lest 30 yrs got a lot of old stuff

thanks,

joe

[harley .guy07]

A tile setter thats cool. I was a union carpenter untill a person pulled in front of my harley in the middle of an intersection and caused permanent knee damage so I can't work in the trades any more but I loved it while I did it. now I am in the process of a new career.

[joseph logston]

thanks harley i was in bac union for over 25 yrs. it never got boring at all and its harder to do tile than i looks i work the union lumber yards 20 yrs before tile, the lumber yards got boring

joe

[harley .guy07]

Yeah I am going to miss it. but I have to find another career do to my injuries. Doctor advised me to quit. He said if I kept doing the carpenter trade I would be back to see him within a year or two for total knee replacement. So I am looking at going back to school and finding another career.

[joseph logston]

yes i know the trades are hard on the body whats is the average burnout age on the framers is 28 yrs.old, but we have a wonderful feeling about building something with are hands you cant take away there is a lot of educated perfessonals would love to do what we have done. my brother haves paradigm speakers to i like them i have 12 yr old polk rt-7 and they sound real good the old stuff is still good stuff

joe

[JoeE SP9]

Hi to Joe from another Joe. I just turned 62 and retired. A lot of my gear is "vintage" also.

[harley .guy07]

yes i know the trades are hard on the body whats is the average burnout age on the framers is 28 yrs.old, but we have a wonderful feeling about building something with are hands you cant take away there is a lot of educated perfessonals would love to do what we have done. my brother haves paradigm speakers to i like them i have 12 yr old polk rt-7 and they sound real good the old stuff is still good stuff

joe

Yeah I think thats what I will miss the most, the joy of finishing a job and seeing what your own two hands just built. About the only other thing that gives me that is I do build and modify speakers as a small side trade and I do get that same kind of feeling out of designing,building, and tuning,listening to my own speakers that I built and designed. It takes knowing crossover designs, cabinet building, and knowing how to figure and execute building the right size of cabinet and to go sealed cabinet of ported, and of course what size and length the port will be. I do still get that feeling from my speaker builds but I don't do them every day. usually its a couple of months or so in between builds for friends and family.

[joseph logston]

hi joeE & harley thanks

i guess we are old like are gear, but as we keep are minds to a good hobbys like audio and viedio we will stay sharp, i like fishing to i keep bizzy working on the house & yard to
there mite be a lot of us on this forum i have some new stuff to sony blu ray s550. 80g zune, 46" sharp 64u lcd pannel but i love my 2 channel system

[harley .guy07]

Joseph how do you like your RX-V1. I know when it came out it was the receiver to have. It was at the top of the ratings for quite a while. I do like the higher end Yamaha stuff. The RX-V1 seemed to be the last model that Yamaha made that caught the publics eye though. It seems their products today arent as popular or maybe their quality has slipped a little bit I don't know but it seems that this unit is one people still remember as a very good one.

[joseph logston]

its been great had it for 13 yrs. its been upgraded once, thats it the amp is super quite
i put a denon poa-2400 2 channel amp for my mains my two channel realy sounds good now got the denon 1987 new for $700.

[joseph logston]

been trying to upload a picture for you, what happen to sacks

[harley .guy07]

I don't know. Yeah I would like to see a picture of your setup. It seems quite similar to mine in many respects. Yamaha receivers make pretty good preamps for two channel stereo. Much better than I expected in respect to it being a receiver but it does a very good job as a preamp. I also worked with Denon products when I sold higher end audio products and they make a very good product as well. When I sold audio back in the mid to late 90's Yamaha and Denon were head to head as far a performance and quality build. We sold more Yamaha but I think that had to do with the fact that in my area Yamaha was more well known. But Denon performed as well and was priced around the same area. I like the fact that you are running two subs, for most applications running two subs seems to even out the bass responce and overcome your rooms shortcomings if both subs are placed in the right places. If you can figure out how to send a picture of your stuff I would love to see it. A picture of my equipment is in the DIY section of this forum under the speaker modification thread. take a look and tell me what you think. I have explained on their what speakers I have and how I have modified them to be much better than stock. Take a look

[joseph logston]

harley try to click on my joseph logston at one of my post its the blue name

[joseph logston]

harley try to click on josph logston to the left click on profile gallery

[joseph logston]

click on profile scrow down then click on gallary

[joseph logston]

just click on user gallary under my name