A 20 year old amplifier I bought my dad with my highschool graduation/job money. Coupled with his mtx speakers.
It can shake the house with oldies. Pushes the bullshit out.
I have 2 old-school Yamahas. one is in the room with me but would have to clear a pile of Amz and Meh boxes to get to it. The Yamahas were not crazy-audiophile but were pretty damn good. Also you are right there was also magic to the front panel light but I’d still take an incandescent-lit tuner bar from an old classic Pioneer, my first I took to college. also what cassette player was that? Still can’t part with my college-era Nakamichi 480.
been busy with life for a few decades but would love to dig into classic audiophile-obsession/hell again.
My Yamahas are from 90s. these was my old Pioneer and tape deck; my Nakamichi was black metal though.:
@pmarin Just remembered my whole dorm stereo system was wired to a lo-fi clock radio which I wired to a relay that would turn the on receiver and cassette deck, if I set the clock radio alarm.
the cassette had a way to auto-play on power-on, and no digital controls so receiver would be on/off.
everybody said I had the best alarm clock in the dorm. Of course best was Pink Floyd « Time ».
[actually think my 1st year cassette deck might have been a mid-high end Sony; think I got the Naka the next year]
@unksol I see from image it was a Technics cassette deck (for some reason they were called a tape ‘deck’). Technics used to be a semi-high-end brand owned by Panasonic, I think.
I had a higher-end Technics FM tuner and preamp, But sold them back to audio shops when I was into the scene in 1980s.
I just bought a Technics turntable at a Goodwill store. reviews said it is mid-line and not the best. Others said good luck finding a good belt-drive turntable for under $1000. so for $39 it will be fun. Reminds me I only have a few days to try it with Goodwill 15-day return policy. but honestly stuff like that is usually always fixable, and even had a cartridge that appears to be intact. so yeah pretty sure I will keep it and fix/upgrade someday if needed.
@pmarin Whoever told you it’s hard to find a good belt drive TT under a grand must have been smoking something. Turntables can get freaky expensive, but for all but the most discerning audiophile ears, it’s easy to find nice ones for around a tenth of that if you know where to look. (Obviously this excludes new purchases!)
@pmarin@PooltoyWolf I was actually trying to getit to read the amp output but it got blurry and I said screw it. But yeah it is a recording tape deck and next to it in both sides are a 3 wide set of cassette trays with a 2 wide on top and those tdk cassette car bags that hold like 20 from vacations on top of that. I think they would have just let them go to the dump if I hadn’t wanted them. And there are still more.
I mean to go through them and it’s not like cassettes are vintage. People took the record players. I can’t get another tape deck to work and it’s not the belt but that one definitely does. He recorded this stuff probably from the library. Or radio. IDK.
I wasn’t actually using it though I was just. Turning it up as far as it I thought it could go playing oldies from YouTube. Lame I know. Then further Wondering if he ever really cranked it. When we were gone. I’m guessing not but kinda hoping… IDK.
@PooltoyWolf at the time I think it was like $400 and I was looking for a decent one. His old receiver used to make the speakers crackle. Idk. Was a thing. it still goes lound. What’s unfortunate was it was like 2004 right before HDMI was a thing. But tvs for some reason all still have optical TOSLINK so I have that set up to feed back from the tv.
Just for curiosity I just checked the downstairs hallway.
Looks like another Yamaha receiver, a Kenwood straight 2-channel amp with Goodwill sticker still on it, and a super-classic JVC super-VHS (gotta go JVC for that stuff).
@pmarin I did not attempt to salvage the VHS. There was a lot of that too when I was a kid. But he eventually moved to DVDRW DVR and a lot was recorded off tv. But he also had two stacked decks. Recording time/helping program them. Etc. Was a thing. I think his last one died at some point and I gave him my VHS/DVD combo. Panasonic lol. They got used a lot and he killed a few. I definitely took a few apart and tried to fix them as a kid.
@pmarin and he was using my Netflix at the end. I still have that bombshell kinda sitting in there. I could go see what he was watching if its kept the history. Which. Is it’s own level of. Weird.
Liking some Loretta lyn
Loving this
I have 2 old-school Yamahas. one is in the room with me but would have to clear a pile of Amz and Meh boxes to get to it. The Yamahas were not crazy-audiophile but were pretty damn good. Also you are right there was also magic to the front panel light but I’d still take an incandescent-lit tuner bar from an old classic Pioneer, my first I took to college. also what cassette player was that? Still can’t part with my college-era Nakamichi 480.
been busy with life for a few decades but would love to dig into classic audiophile-obsession/hell again.
My Yamahas are from 90s. these was my old Pioneer and tape deck; my Nakamichi was black metal though.:
/image Pioneer SX-780 illuminated in dark room
/image Nakamichi 480
@pmarin Thought that looked familiar! I have an SX-780, along with a newer brother, the Fluroscan (VFD) equipped SX-3600.
@pmarin Just remembered my whole dorm stereo system was wired to a lo-fi clock radio which I wired to a relay that would turn the on receiver and cassette deck, if I set the clock radio alarm.
the cassette had a way to auto-play on power-on, and no digital controls so receiver would be on/off.
everybody said I had the best alarm clock in the dorm. Of course best was Pink Floyd « Time ».
[actually think my 1st year cassette deck might have been a mid-high end Sony; think I got the Naka the next year]
@unksol I see from image it was a Technics cassette deck (for some reason they were called a tape ‘deck’). Technics used to be a semi-high-end brand owned by Panasonic, I think.
I had a higher-end Technics FM tuner and preamp, But sold them back to audio shops when I was into the scene in 1980s.
I just bought a Technics turntable at a Goodwill store. reviews said it is mid-line and not the best. Others said good luck finding a good belt-drive turntable for under $1000. so for $39 it will be fun. Reminds me I only have a few days to try it with Goodwill 15-day return policy. but honestly stuff like that is usually always fixable, and even had a cartridge that appears to be intact. so yeah pretty sure I will keep it and fix/upgrade someday if needed.
@pmarin Technics and Panasonic we both brands under Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd which changed their name to Panasonic in 2008.
For just casual playback a belt drive turntable does not need to be super expensive.
@pmarin Whoever told you it’s hard to find a good belt drive TT under a grand must have been smoking something. Turntables can get freaky expensive, but for all but the most discerning audiophile ears, it’s easy to find nice ones for around a tenth of that if you know where to look. (Obviously this excludes new purchases!)
@pmarin @PooltoyWolf I was actually trying to getit to read the amp output but it got blurry and I said screw it. But yeah it is a recording tape deck and next to it in both sides are a 3 wide set of cassette trays with a 2 wide on top and those tdk cassette car bags that hold like 20 from vacations on top of that. I think they would have just let them go to the dump if I hadn’t wanted them. And there are still more.
I mean to go through them and it’s not like cassettes are vintage. People took the record players. I can’t get another tape deck to work and it’s not the belt but that one definitely does. He recorded this stuff probably from the library. Or radio. IDK.
I wasn’t actually using it though I was just. Turning it up as far as it I thought it could go playing oldies from YouTube. Lame I know. Then further Wondering if he ever really cranked it. When we were gone. I’m guessing not but kinda hoping… IDK.
Was having a moment. And shaking the house.
Oooh, Yamaha HTR-series, that’s a good one. Always loved VFD displays, too.
@PooltoyWolf at the time I think it was like $400 and I was looking for a decent one. His old receiver used to make the speakers crackle. Idk. Was a thing. it still goes lound. What’s unfortunate was it was like 2004 right before HDMI was a thing. But tvs for some reason all still have optical TOSLINK so I have that set up to feed back from the tv.
Just for curiosity I just checked the downstairs hallway.
Looks like another Yamaha receiver, a Kenwood straight 2-channel amp with Goodwill sticker still on it, and a super-classic JVC super-VHS (gotta go JVC for that stuff).
@pmarin I did not attempt to salvage the VHS. There was a lot of that too when I was a kid. But he eventually moved to DVDRW DVR and a lot was recorded off tv. But he also had two stacked decks. Recording time/helping program them. Etc. Was a thing. I think his last one died at some point and I gave him my VHS/DVD combo. Panasonic lol. They got used a lot and he killed a few. I definitely took a few apart and tried to fix them as a kid.
@pmarin and he was using my Netflix at the end. I still have that bombshell kinda sitting in there. I could go see what he was watching if its kept the history. Which. Is it’s own level of. Weird.