I bet you there are a few of you into it. I am listening to some old ZZ Top on my circa 1978 Sansui 9090 with about the same year Pioneer HPM 100's tonight. Nothing like old audio equipment imo. Unless you are too young to remember when stereo's were loud and you got screamed at by mom/dad/neighbors etc.
Oooooh yeah. Very nice! I'm an analog guy at heart, too. See https://www.v8buick.com/index.php?threads/old-vinyl.372201/ Devon
I still have and love to listen to my old gear I bought while stationed in Germany back in the mid 80’s. Kenwood amp and pre amp. 4 Marantz LS-20 speakers, Pioneer EQ, turntable, 2 cassette decks, tuner CD player.
Hi. That almost looks like a Pioneer SX 1050 receiver and a 9500 equalizer. I have those also. Sweet. Dwight
Some of those 70's and vey early 80's Pioneer SX's were monsters. And the prices? They going through the roof these days.
Got the mid-70s Lear Jet 8-track player NIB. Now need to find the same era car (and some KRACO 6X9 speakers) to put it in.
...or a 450W Rockola Bubbler with a 10" sub. "I don't care, just play it loud" from "Good Morning Viet Nam"...
I have been looking for decent vintage audio in thrift stores since about 2008. I've never seen anything other than junk. I blame eBay lol.
When the weather is less than ideal for driving the Buicks, I can be comforted by playing and recording on my vintage audio system. Nando.
Does that Rock or what!! Nice ! I sport a Marantz 2252 have some Klipsch 280 R and a 10" Klipsch sub to round it out and the amp is a 300w Adcom. Onkyo turntable Loud is good lets smoke up some Hendrix!!
Good eye! From the top: Pioneer PL-530X turntable Pioneer SG-9500 graphic equalizer Sansui AU-717 integrated amplifier Pioneer SX-850 tuner Pioneer CT-F9191 cassette deck Akai GX-215D four track reel-to-reel Playing through modded Bose 501 speakers. Devon
Do stereo stores even exist anymore? Do people now days listen to music off their i-phones with ear buds or little bluetooth speakers?
Just like the horsepower wars of the 70's, so it was for home audio. An example would be my Pioneer SX-1980: Nando.
If I didn't already have the SX-850, I'd go for the SX-1980 in a heartbeat. The 1980 actually outperforms it's own specs. From wiki: ...rated at a staggering 270 watts RMS per channel into 8 ohms, both channels driven. However, in the September 1978 issue of the magazine Audio,[4] Leonard Feldman performed a specification test on the SX-1980 and concluded that the rating of 270 watts RMS per channel was too conservative. He stated in his report: Though the new [IHF mandated] "Dynamic Headroom" measurement is specified in dB, it should be mentioned that based upon the short-term signal used to measure the 2.3 dB headroom of this amplifier, it was producing nearly 460 watts of short-term power under these test conditions! At an official rating of 270 watts RMS per channel into 8 ohms[1] with a measured 2.3 dB dynamic headroom,[4] this makes the SX-1980 Pioneer's most powerful receiver, as well as being one of the most powerful receivers ever manufactured in the world, to date. It was also tested in the December 1978 issue of Stereo Review.[5] Some results were: With both channels driving 8-ohm loads at 1,000 Hz, the outputs clipped at 300 watts per channel (IHF clipping headroom equals 0.46 dB). The dynamic headroom was 0.63 dB. ... The distortion at 1,000 Hz was nearly unmeasurable at any power level. It was no more than 0.003% from 0.1 to 100 watts output, rose to 0.0045% between 200 and 290 watts, and reached its maximum of 0.008% at 300 watts, just before clipping occurred. The intermodulation distortion (IM) was about 0.03% at most power levels up to 100 watts and reached 0.045% at 300 watts. THAT'S impressive! Devon
