Sep 23, 2024 · There's vintage audio, then there's vintage audio. While seventies receivers seem all the rage, there are also many great antiques out there. Take a pair of Quad 57's and Quad II amps or Futterman OTL's from the fifties, with some simple mods or changes to them, and add a modern preamp and source, and you'll have a system that smokes a lot of ...

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Mar 23, 2011 · If you own some vintage audio equipment and would like an excellent way to control the volume the Audiocubics R-cube is just the answer. I recently purchased the R-cube from Curt at audiocubics.com. The R-cube consists …

Jan 25, 2022 · So this whole thing about grounding audio gear. There are millions of pieces of vintage audio gear out there without ground plugs. In fact, many don't even have a polarized two prong plug. Yet search as I may, I can't find one situation where someone was killed or seriously injured from an ungrounded piece of audio equipment.

Apr 11, 2022 · While you may be able to find some vintage horns, newer designs sound better (not to disparage the older stuff), and in some cases are price competitive with the older vintage speakers. Check out the custom horn speakers made by John Kalinowski. Excellent sound within your budget: bd-design.nl

Dec 19, 2022 · So in the process of trying to chase down a loose connection, I thought I’d also do a recap. My reasons for doing this are I hate bricking a functional piece of vintage audio equipment that can be fixed but also the sentimental fact that it was the first "real" hi-fi separate I …

Oct 9, 2019 · Likewise, in Audio, there has almost ALWAYS been the "Consumer Stuff" vs. the "Esoteric Audiophile Stuff". I think that the key difference was that less of the "Classic" Audiophile equipment was as far out-of-reach financially as a lot of the Modern-Era Audiophile stuff (some of it was even sold as "assemble it yourself" kits and was supposedly ...

Nov 17, 2022 · In audio (or better, among 'audiophiles'), there is much 'hype' going on,every now and than, about something, sometimes it is the 'newest invention', sometimes is 'long forgotten' method, matherial or tecnique. More than few years back, some of the people I know were into vintage wires from WE.

Oct 9, 2000 · Accuphase T100; musical. Onkyo T9090MkII; best performance/value tradeoff. Magnum MD108; best ever, price no object. For the record, I currently own the Magnum MD102, have owned other Magnums in the past, owned several Onkyos, had a terrific Kenwood late 70s tuner (forget the model # now), I'm always on the lookout for another vintage Accuphase.

Oct 3, 2016 · In the past i’ve owned a California Audio Lab’s (CAL) Alpha, a Audio Alchemy Digital Decoding Engine v10 (DAC) and a Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista. These days they are all considered very vintage. Of the three, the Tri-Vista was the better, followed by the CAL Alpha, yet the AA DAC was pretty good, looking back.