What's vintage in your system?

[westcott]

In 1937 Altec acquired the domestic theatre sound service and maintenance business of Electrical Research Products, Inc., the Western Electric subsidiary. Altec Lansing was formed in 1941 when Lansing Manufacturing Co., a nearly bankrupt west coast loudspeaker company, was purchased for $50,000 cash. Altec Lansing went to work for the Navy on magnetic airborne detection equipment. Much of the work in this period was done in association with GSI, the company from which Texas Instruments was to spring. At war's end, Altec Lansing continued its steady growth pattern and led the way to large scale development of public address systems and to a conscientiousness of acoustics that had never existed before.

That is very interesting. I assumed Lansing came later because no where on the speaker is Lansing mentioned like their "newer" speakers. Thanks for the correction.

[westcott]

That is very interesting. I assumed Lansing came later because no where on the speaker is Lansing mentioned like their "newer" speakers. Thanks for the correction.

[theaudiohobby]

Vintage in my system

Quad ESL-57
Luxman T-12 FM Tuner.

Excellent pieces that I will be keeping for a long time....

[mixadude]

Nice :t

[pustelniakr]

Here's my stuff (Pioneer unless otherwise stated):

SPEC-1 Preamp
SPEC-4 Power Amp
SG-9500 Equalizer
TX-9500-II Tuner
CT-F1000 Cassette Deck (x2)
RT-909 Reel to Reel
PL-630 Turntable
Benz Micro MC Silver Cartridge
Phase Linear 1000 Series II Autocorrellator
DT-500 Timer
MA-62A Mixer
Triple-Stack of HPM-100 Speakers

I have attached a pic of the sytem, before the SPECs arrived. The amp at that time was an SA-9500-II. The SPECs are currently on the bench awaiting full restoration...

Rich P

[2325fan]

sweet set up for a pioneer system!!!! ive got some old stuff hidden in my closet

[schneidey]

i have a marantz 2220B and it works fine except the blue illuminated lights on the tuner dial dont work and i think another one that is run on the same fuse as the tuner ligthts dont work either the pointer light works. i am wondering if i need to take it apart and i need to know if there is fuses on the inside of the amp behind the tuner dial internally?

can someone tell me if i need to open this thing up and change internal fuses for the illuminated lights to work again?

thanks

schneidey

[2325fan]

hey all it is . burned bulbs thats all im runnin a 2325

[2325fan]

my bedroom set up up is a marantz 2325 reciever
2 g.a.s. amps
onkyo 24 band equ
pioneer ct f950tape deck that i just got fixed
2 sets of yammie ns 220 floor speakers
an a newer set of floor standers
well thats my set up

[basite]

my advents (which are also my current speakers), definatly, i also have a kenwood kr-730 receiver hidden in my closet somewhere, which was bought together with the advents,
my turntable is vintage too, a luxman pd-282.

the amp, cables and cd player/computer are new

[SAEA501]

The system in my home office is pretty much all vintage, all bought new in the early 70s:
Crown IC-150 preamp
SAE MkIVCM Power amp
Pair of EPI 50s
Panasonic SP-10 turntable with an SME 3009 arm and Denon DL 103D moving coil cartridge.
Also have Denon 2800MKII DVD player in that system, but that's not really vintage.

[JEarl]

I have a pair of old Criterion 4X speakers that I just yanked out of storage. I wanted to hook these up to hear how they still sound. I can not find the old manual. I noticed that there is a red dot above one of the speaker connections. Is this for the + connection from the amp or the negative? I sure don't remember. Perhaps it is not important. However, the Technics amp manual did mention not to cross the leads to avoid damage to the circuitry. I am new to this forum.

[Rick684]

I oscillate between a Sansui TU-9000, Pioneer TX-9500 II, and a McIntosh MR7300 for tuners in my 2 ch. setup. The Mac sound beats 'em all though. For DXing, the Sansui is best. Also use an "old" Yamaha R-900 when I'm feeling a little quirky....

[Dusty Chalk]

One of my main speakers are Pioneer HPM-200's. I also have a pair of CS-06 end-table speakers, and a SX-5590 receiver.

[emorphien]

nothing I did the vintage thing for a while in the past though.

[Dusty Chalk]

I did the vintage thing for a while in the past though.

Quoted for irony (nothing personal, I just found the choice of words amusing).

[dmoes]

I have some Hi Fi vintage stuff including a mono only Heathkit preamp and power amp from early sixties. the preamp was desighned to hold a second preamp circuit board in the box for Stereo but this has just the one These are both working fine but are currently not used.
Also I have a Pioneer "steriophonic" Hi-Fi reciever SM-B201 with 19 tubes including 2 6BM8 pairs for finals. it sounds great. the plates (anodes) in the finals have a tendancy to glow red after about 20 minutes. I doubt this is a good thing. so I don't power it up often.

Just dumped my last Vintage piece Nad 7020 from active service. The amp power supply died (Blew fuses constantly) some time ago and was using it only as a tuner and Phono preamp until a few days ago when I replaced it and my old prologic stuff with a Yamaha HTR 5960
Bought the 7020 New as a teenager in the late 70's it was a great piece of gear.

[emorphien]

Heh well good catch there. The wording is a bit weird.

[jrhymeammo]

The older audio related stuff I have is

Art Blaey TJM - At the Cafe Bohemia (1955)
Original pressing in an excellent condition. It is labled 767 Lexington Ave, not 47th West 63rd. Sounds too good for me to ever sell it.

J-Murda

[basite]

@jt1stcav, are you on Audiogon too? i happened to look around on the virtual systems pages, and i think i found your system (i'm not a member of audiogon forums or so, but i like to take a look there from time to time)


http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr...&zzlJt1stcav&&

anyways, great system dude!

keep them spinning,
Bert.

[daviethek]

My Yamaha CT -1010 Tuner from around 1977 I guess. Greatest bang for the buck of any component I have yet owned. I will strongly consider vintage/used for my next component replacement/addition.

[corky newman]

I have a mint Sansui AU417 with a Rotel 965BXLE CD player. this is fed into a set of vintage Ohm model L's and a set of Paradigm 3SE's...for low listening I have a very old Pioneer SA5500II with a Onkyo DX1800 CD player that feeds a set of JBL riva's. I have a few tube DAC's but dont really use them much...and Graddo headphones..
I would keep every piece of old gear, mostly the older int. amps. I do believe they are gonna fetch good money in the future. I know a few very hi end recording studio's that wash down a mix on old analog amps before mastering...I had a few new digital amps, and the sound was very thin next to my analog gear...

[hydrasports04]

Hi all,
My vintage electronics, Mark Levinson ML 1 w/latest mods, Denon DP 47 F, Denon DCD-1520, Denon DRM 800, and Infinity Reference Standard 6 Kappas.

My Adcom GFA 5500 amp is new.

[jt1stcav]

Bert, yep...I'm on AudiogoN, too (I'm also on AudioKarma, Klipsch Forums, Steve Hoffman Forums, AudioCircle, etc. I'm everywhere...LOL)!

Jeff, I'm absolutely thrilled with the SL-1700MK2 and its performance. Sure, it's not a megabuck Clearaudio or VPI belt-drive 'table, but with my Stanton MM and a Sumiko Blue Point MC (that's worn and needs replacing), it does a respectable job of reproducing my 180-200 gram LPs in grand style. All I need now is a decent tube phono stage to replace the entry-level Music Hall and I'm all set!

[thekid]

I have a pair of Pioneer Project 80's speakers from the late 70's early 80's which were being used as the B Speakers in an A/B set up with a pair of Bose 201 Series II that are now in their 20th year of use.

Think the Pioneer's maybe going to the Salvation Army though since my wife does not want them in the living room anymore and I don't have any other use for them.