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      11-07-2020, 12:50 PM   #23
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I love tubes too. I have a tube phono pre amp. Not too crazy about the edge in the sound in the highs I'm getting from the phono pre amp. There are a list of tubes that will work in my Vincent Audio PHO 700. Just have to decide on which set. Then again, it could be just an additive effect as I've also heard the phono cartridge I'm using (Sumiko Blue Point Special EVO III) can be prone to that sonic issue.
I am a tubes and vinyl guy. I run a viva 300b integrated with allnic phonostage and altec vintage speakers, and a rega/ortofon rig. I used to have a preamp that had 4 12ax7 and 2 12au7's in it and when I replaced the au7's with some vintage mullard CV4003 it made all the difference in the world. Smoothed everything right out. IIRC the vincent features this tube. Try it it will run you about $150 on tube world
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Showed up today. Probably going to wait until the anthem shows up before I set it up. It's huge compared to my old Epson. [IMG][/IMG]
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I love seeing all the stuff you guys play with when you're not messing with cars!

I've been a two-channel JBL guy for over 60-years and I'm currently running a pair of bi-amped 4345 4-ways with 18-inch woofers powered by Crown PS400 and PS200 amps with Soundcraftsman Pro-Control Four pre and Pro-EQ 44 equalizer using an Ashly XR-1001 crossover.

My TV room has a modest VISIO with a simple two-channel setup currently using JBL L5s powered by a JBL/Urei 6260 through a Crown PSL-2 pre-amp.

Old School, I know, but then I started driving and riding BMWs in 1971!

Here's the big JBL:

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I love seeing all the stuff you guys play with when you're not messing with cars!

I've been a two-channel JBL guy for over 60-years and I'm currently running a pair of bi-amped 4345 4-ways with 18-inch woofers powered by Crown PS400 and PS200 amps with Soundcraftsman Pro-Control Four pre and Pro-EQ 44 equalizer using an Ashly XR-1001 crossover.

My TV room has a modest VISIO with a simple two-channel setup currently using JBL L5s powered by a JBL/Urei 6260 through a Crown PSL-2 pre-amp.

Old School, I know, but then I started driving and riding BMWs in 1971!

Here's the big JBL:

Nice, finally someone who talks my kind of audio gear language. For the past couple of years, I've settled on a big JBL home brew system of my own. Dual 2226s, a 2251 for the mids and the HF consists of a 2447 on 2384 waveguides with Aquaplased diaphragms. Nothing has ever come close to what this system can do. It's all active using a BiAmp TesiraServer for processing and Crown ComTech and MicroTech amps.

I've also got 3 2245s waiting to get rebuilt and currently searching for a 4th.
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      11-12-2020, 06:36 AM   #27
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I'm old school in everything as I think about it. I have two boats, both are 50 years old, my 993 is 24 years old. My tube set up is newish at about 10 years old, but I just gave my 26 year old son a set of Klipsch Forte's with the Crites updates, and a small tube amp for him to experience what my youth and listening to music was like. So far he's loving it. As I posted earlier I have a Synthesis Tube amp with Zu Omen Def speakers which I am really loving. My HT set up is old now too I just realized. My space has always been small and my wife tolerates the big speakers in the living room so HT is a 60" Sony Bravia LCD (10 years old now) a Yamaha HT amp and Bose cubes.....my buddy just did a really cool basement reno/man cave with a sauna, whisk(e)y room (his line of work), pool table and HT rig with Epson projector his speakers are Klipsch in wall and ceiling, with some small Bose up front and a big sub. His wife doesn't like speakers or wires being scene anywhere.
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      11-12-2020, 07:54 AM   #28
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Showed up today. Probably going to wait until the anthem shows up before I set it up. It's huge compared to my old Epson. [IMG][/IMG]
You will not be disappointed! It’ll blow away the Epson and if your room is light controlled the NX5 might even seem too bright, I have an NX7 and the iris is closed 50%

How big is your screen?
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      11-12-2020, 11:38 AM   #29
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Screen is 108 inch and the room is light controlled. Good to hear because some of the complaints are it might not be bright enough .
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If you're going to go old school, go Old School.

My receiver is a Marantz 2325, *completely* restored. My father bought it new in 1976 and then stored it when it had a component failure about 20 years later. He eventually gifted it to me and I waited over two years to have a very, very, VERY OCD Marantz expert restore it to better than new condition-- we used the best of everything on any replacement components.

Fun fact about the Marantz of that era. The 2325 is spec'd at 125 W/channel at 8 ohms. But what really happened is that Marantz would take a random sampling of their receivers, bench test them for days, and where the first one started to clip, that's what they rated the power output as. In other words-- they're *monstrously* overpowered. When we bench tested mine, it ran continuously at about 165W/ channel-- and that's RMS, not peak. When I turn the receiver on, the lights in the room literally dim for a couple of seconds-- the capacitors in that beast are the size of coke cans.

My speakers are a pair of KEF Reference Series 104/2's that I've completely refurbished (new speaker surrounds, rebuilt ferrofluid tweets, rebuilt w/ matching crossover components, etc. They're like most high-end speakers from the '80's- they need a *lot* of power to do them justice.

I used to run them with a variety of modern Yamaha receivers and they sounded fine, but the first time I fired them up using the Marantz, I almost cried-- I heard things I'd *never* heard before on a bunch of audio tracks I use for reference (Adele, Sarah McLachlan, Boston, Roxy Music).

It's a combination made in heaven, and the fact that the components have a personal history with me makes it even better.

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Love, love, love vintage Marantz gear. That's a beautiful example.
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If you're going to go old school, go Old School.

My receiver is a Marantz 2325, *completely* restored. My father bought it new in 1976 and then stored it when it had a component failure about 20 years later. He eventually gifted it to me and I waited over two years to have a very, very, VERY OCD Marantz expert restore it to better than new condition-- we used the best of everything on any replacement components.

Fun fact about the Marantz of that era. The 2325 is spec'd at 125 W/channel at 8 ohms. But what really happened is that Marantz would take a random sampling of their receivers, bench test them for days, and where the first one started to clip, that's what they rated the power output as. In other words-- they're *monstrously* overpowered. When we bench tested mine, it ran continuously at about 165W/ channel-- and that's RMS, not peak. When I turn the receiver on, the lights in the room literally dim for a couple of seconds-- the capacitors in that beast are the size of coke cans.

My speakers are a pair of KEF Reference Series 104/2's that I've completely refurbished (new speaker surrounds, rebuilt ferrofluid tweets, rebuilt w/ matching crossover components, etc. They're like most high-end speakers from the '80's- they need a *lot* of power to do them justice.

I used to run them with a variety of modern Yamaha receivers and they sounded fine, but the first time I fired them up using the Marantz, I almost cried-- I heard things I'd *never* heard before on a bunch of audio tracks I use for reference (Adele, Sarah McLachlan, Boston, Roxy Music).

It's a combination made in heaven, and the fact that the components have a personal history with me makes it even better.

R.
My buddy had one of those Marantz receivers with a monster set of Marantz speakers, I remember the cottage parties in the late '70s. That thing rocked out.
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A few pics of the innards, including the monster capacitors:
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There's a great guy for vintage gear (and KEF &#128540 in Baltimore Maryland called Just Audio. Lenny even puts out a cool video catalog of their vintage inventory on YouTube. They'll ship whatever you're interested in too.

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I put up my new screen yesterday. I can't believe how much bigger it looks. It's going to take a few days to adjust. [IMG][/IMG]
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I put up my new screen yesterday. I can't believe how much bigger it looks. It's going to take a few days to adjust. [IMG][/IMG]
Looks great. Paradigm Signature S8’s?

How do you find the brightness of the NX5?
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Looks great. Paradigm Signature S8’s?

How do you find the brightness of the NX5?
No they are studio v5’s. That’s still my old epson. I waiting until I get my anthem 1140 to hook up the jvc.
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Here's my setup
Rotel receiver and amp, dual Hsu subs, Bowers 600 series speakers, Projekt turn table, Pioneer plasma.
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Here's my setup
Rotel receiver and amp, dual Hsu subs, Bowers 600 series speakers, Projekt turn table, Pioneer plasma.
Noguchi!!
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Here's my setup
Rotel receiver and amp, dual Hsu subs, Bowers 600 series speakers, Projekt turn table, Pioneer plasma.
Noguchi!!
Signed too on the edge and it has the Herman Miller plate in the leg.
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Here's my setup
Rotel receiver and amp, dual Hsu subs, Bowers 600 series speakers, Projekt turn table, Pioneer plasma.
Noguchi!!
Signed too on the edge and it has the Herman Miller plate in the leg.
Haha I got one too
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Rotel receiver and amp, dual Hsu subs, Bowers 600 series speakers, Projekt turn table, Pioneer plasma.
Noguchi!!
Signed too on the edge and it has the Herman Miller plate in the leg.
Haha I got one too
Nice taste!!! Also be careful with the signature... it's not etched on... it's painted and with enough windex it'll come off
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Nice taste!!! Also be careful with the signature... it's not etched on... it's painted and with enough windex it'll come off
Mine is etched
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Nice taste!!! Also be careful with the signature... it's not etched on... it's painted and with enough windex it'll come off
Mine is etched
Lucky... on the newer ones I think it changed to painted
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