Music systems at home

Harmon Kardon A/V receiver
Kenwood dual cassette deck
RCA DVD player(use for playing CDs)
Technics turntable
Mismatched speakers, but nice Yamaha sub. I will work on speakers after I get my new...

Mitsubishi 48" HDTV, which is arriving tomorrow(not really music, but it's all related)

Other related stuff:

Pioneer Laserdisc player
JVC SVHS hifi vcr

I am an audiophile wannabe at heart, but can't afford to be one.

 

Technics 5.1 receiver
2 Celestion 100 watt, 8" bookshelves
1 RCA CD changer(very cheap)
1 iPod(20 GB)
1 Stanton Str8-100 direct drive, manual Turntable
1 iMac(since I got my powerbook, storing music is all the iMac is good for)

And I got a Technics Tape deck that isn't hooked up, and hasn't been for a long tim

that's it, I've had the same stuff for about 3 years now(sans iPod) and it's always sounded great!

 

Sweeet!

 

The Dragon! What a machine indeed!

Did anybody ever make a better deck?

 

I have a very old Realistic receiver (sounds so much better than a Kenwood I have)
Pioneer speakers S-G300-K 10" sub 3" tweeter and a high horn
200 CD changer from Sony CDP EX 230
a old Kenwood EQ

 

My old Realistic sounded better than my old Kenwood, too.

The Realistic lasted 11 years. The Kenwood lasted 4.

My Kenwood cassette deck is actually very good, but I will never buy another Kenwood product.

 

i have a very UK system (except for my DVD player):

pioneer ELITE DV-47Ai DVD-V/SACD/DVD-A/CD/.mp3 player
Rotel RA-02 integrated amplifier (made in UK)
B&W CDM-7 loudspeakers (made in UK)
B&W ASW650 subwoofer (made in UK)

if i really wanted to be audiophile i'd tell you all about my interconnect and speaker cables, and about my power conditioner. but really, why?

i have a 20" sony TV that i got for free. i love it and won't replace it until TV goes 100% HD.

i love my system. i went to a hi-fi shop in libertyville, IL and realized it's just about respectable in the absolute audiophile sense. it's incredible in the general consumer sense, however, and it gives me great joy.

robb.

 

Whats really sad is how "bad" the Kenwood tuner was at getting a good reseption from a radio station.

The old Realistic will pull in stations from over 70 miles away.

 

Boss CD-GT1
Beringer 12 Channel Mixer
Qsc RMX 1450 Bridged Mono
Avatar 410
Hartke 410

it's not perfect, but that's how listen to my CD's in my practice room along with running my Synth modules, keyboard, Basses and computer (Band in a Box)

 

Word to that!

My brother SWEARS by Kenwood, and I've tried to get him to see the light (or at least away from the darkness that is Kenwood!). Oh well--he'll learn the hard way one of these days

 

Yamaha RX385 reciever/Tuner.
Akai CDM444 CD player.
Pioneer CTW202 Double Cassete Deck.

All old gear now but still going strong as good gear should.

Speakers are Home made 2x10 sub. Also home made bookshelf, 5 litres with 4" speaker and 1" silk dome tweet. Both are prototypes which I'm now happy with, so a few more bookshelves will be built when time permits. The plan is to build 5, then make the sub active and buy a 5.1 reciever/amp.

 

The CR 1A kicks ass, too. I wouldn't mind having one of those.

 

i sold hi-fi for six months, and by the end of it, was using the employee purchase plan liberally. i bought everything for pretty much half of retail.

the cables were even cheaper. i think i spent $100 total, and i got a pair of audioquest type 4 double bi-wire speaker cables, a copperhead 4m sub cable, 1m diamondback cables, 2m 1/4" to RCA diamondback cables for connection from sound card to integrated, 1/4" to 1/4" viper 1m cables for mic pre to sound card, and VSD-2 all silver digital coax cable. i also have a 2m ixos s-video cable.

i am really pleased with the incredible detail and natural voice of my system -- i guess i really like the relaxed, british hi-fi sound. i would like to upgrade to a nicer amp and put the rotel in the kitchen with a pair of paradigm titans. that would be sweet.

i would also like to go 6.1 or 7.1, but my (fully paid for) speakers are already beyond my income, so buying a bunch of new ones pretty much won't happen. bummer.

robb.