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pork never goes bad posted:Some great setups. What are the prints in the office pic? Thanks! Law and Moore do minimalist pop culture prints, these are all the Star Wars.
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The turbo on my car died just after I had the electronics fixed for mid four figures. In between crying over my bank account I did a project to show I am in control of at least a tiny portion of my life. Only did the direct drive wheel and playback belt. It was surprisingly easy, and done in just 10-15 minutes.
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I soldered for the first time today, restoring lights to my SX-650. I thought I fried the amp by accident while I was doing it, but I just blew a fuse thankfully. 
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:I soldered for the first time today, restoring lights to my SX-650. I thought I fried the amp by accident while I was doing it, but I just blew a fuse thankfully. That looks almost new. Honestly, it would be a good idea filming yourself next time you do one of these projects. evobatman posted:The turbo on my car died just after I had the electronics fixed for mid four figures. In between crying over my bank account I did a project to show I am in control of at least a tiny portion of my life. Mind linking the supplier? Got a WM-FX323 I use when driving and I think it uses compatible belts to the D series.
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Uncle Kitchener posted:That looks almost new. Honestly, it would be a good idea filming yourself next time you do one of these projects. Hah, the first 45 minutes would have been swearing, trying to fit the wires and the led posts in a single binder clip because I didn't have a proper clip set up, and a bearded man (me) with tears streaming down his face.
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Uncle Kitchener posted:Mind linking the supplier? Got a WM-FX323 I use when driving and I think it uses compatible belts to the D series. https://fixyouraudio.com/product/belt-sony-wm-fx323/
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Someone left an Akai AA-1040 in our trash room. It's not really a very desirable receiver as such, but it just pains me to see people throw out classic silver front gear. Unfortunately it is rather grimy/dirty and although I didn't give it a deep sniff, there was a slight "decades of tobacco" odor about it. Which is not a good sign, when it cuts through the general smell of a trash room. It's probably a nasty mess inside, and will stink up a whole apartment when you turn it on, no matter what you do. Probably even broken, too. It's just as well, because I just don't have the time nor the room to repair/house it. *sigh*
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It might be worth saving anyway? My mom's sx-750 was pretty nicotine stained when I got it (thanks Mom!) but inside it was just a little dusty. Not overly dirty. I got the face all cleaned up in 15 minutes using melamine sponges. You can get 100 of them for $7 on Amazon and they're great for cleaning all sorts of poo poo. edit: it's rated pretty highly on hifi engine: https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/akai/aa-1040.shtml
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All Stereos Matter
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Akai AA-1040 saved and currently stored in my basement room. Haven't had the time to hook it up and see whether it works or not, but I'm gonna give it a cleaning before I bring it into my apartment, it is rather grimy on the front. Luckily the tobacco smell doesn't seem to have been from the receiver, probably something else in the trash room was smelly instead. Aside from being grimy and dusty, it's in really good physical condition, I'm sure it'll clean up nicely. If it does end up being broken beyond my repair skills, at least I can sell it on its good looks to some adventurous electronics amateur. E: I think the one my parents had was an AA-1020, this one has a few more knobs and buttons. E2: Two phono inputs, oh yeah. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Thanks a lot. LooksLikeABabyRat posted:Hah, the first 45 minutes would have been swearing, trying to fit the wires and the led posts in a single binder clip because I didn't have a proper clip set up, and a bearded man (me) with tears streaming down his face. That's half the entertainment, tbh
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Picked up this JVC R-S33 at a garage sale today for $15: I had to clean quite a bit of smoke grime off the face and top, but at least it doesn't smell. Having slider controls sucks but I quite like the look of it, especially when the dial is lit. Unfortunately my bulbs are dead, so I'll have to decide if it's worth messing with that. I swear I have the best luck with cheap receivers and the worst luck for bad dial lights. wa27 fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jul 21, 2018 |
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So I wound up selling the Marantz and the speakers and made $175 on top of what I paid for them. Turned around and bought an SX-727, which I think might unseat my Sx-750 as my favorite receiver. 
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:So I wound up selling the Marantz and the speakers and made $175 on top of what I paid for them. Turned around and bought an SX-727, which I think might unseat my Sx-750 as my favorite receiver. I had one of those and liked it a lot. It had issues I couldn't fix so I flipped it.
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Welcome back you beast
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pzy posted:Welcome back you beast This is beautiful.
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Ok looks like i've gotta get back into the turntable game. I've got decent rips of all my skramz vinyl but it would be nice to listen to them properly again, but i've recently gotten into Japanese ambient and its all youtube quality or 128kbs mp3s from 15 years ago. I already have a reciever, passive speakers and some powered studio monitors. I'd rather not set up two sets of speakers, would i need to put anything in between a turntable and the studio monitors or is that a fine combo? Do turntables themselves have a sound signature? I'm in Australia so don't have access to cheap second hand poo poo, would I be shooting myself in the foot just grabbing the closest thing available on gumtree? I'd rather spend as much of the money as possible on records.
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field balm posted:Do turntables themselves have a sound signature? Outside of rumble and speed variation, which should all hopefully be at a minimum? No. The turntable itself only has one function, and that's to spin as close to a stable 33 1/3 or 45 RPM as possible. The most important part is the cartridge, and then the tonearm and the RIAA preamp. You can pretty much put any cartridge on any tonearm, in purely mechanical terms, but some combinations may end up causing feedback or be mismatched in other ways that affect the sound. Generally it's hard to go wrong with a standard Ortofon, Shure or AT cartridge on any reasonably common tonearm.
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field balm posted:I already have a reciever, passive speakers and some powered studio monitors. I'd rather not set up two sets of speakers, would i need to put anything in between a turntable and the studio monitors or is that a fine combo? You’ll need a phono preamp between the turntable and your studio monitors. Prices for those tend to be around $40 to $infinity. Cheap but good: Artcessories DJPre2, Behringer PP400, less cheap but good: stuff from NAD, Project, Cambridge Audio. Anything above that is diminishing returns.
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field balm posted:Ok looks like i've gotta get back into the turntable game. I've got decent rips of all my skramz vinyl but it would be nice to listen to them properly again, but i've recently gotten into Japanese ambient and its all youtube quality or 128kbs mp3s from 15 years ago. If you’re buying a new turntable built in the last decade, most of the ones you’ll see for sale come with built-in preamps these days because most companies stopped making receivers with their own built-in preamps (phono input) a few years ago unless they’re higher end, mostly stereo (although some companies are still making some surround receivers with phono ins), models for audio nerds. Internet people will wax on about whether those built-in turntable preamps are good enough and you’ll arguably get better sound out of a high quality dedicated pre. Popular modern turntables tend to come in under $300-$400 US at the most so it’s argued that those preamps are pretty inexpensive (and therefore bad) or unshielded or whatever. The general consensus is that any receiver/amp-based preamp will be quite good (especially if the receiver comes from a time when turntables were common), as will a separate one. That said, reviews tend to say pretty good things about the sound quality of popular modern turntables played through average modern gear and I’d argue that the vast majority of owners today probably use the built-in pre on a turntable with no problem or discernible loss in audio quality. In any case, you can usually choose to switch the built-in pre on or off depending on what other equipment you have. If your receiver already has a phono input you’ll probably want to use that and the passive speakers to avoid having to buy a separate pre if the idea of using the one on a turntable bothers you. Otherwise you can go through the built-in pre straight to your powered speakers without any other box in between, and lots of people do that and enjoy it. The AT-LP120 is a great affordable turntable, as is the new Pioneer PLX-500, both should be readily available in Australia, especially via Amazon or big musicians’ supply stores. They’re both trying to be clones to some degree of the venerable Technics SL-1200 so they work as DJ turntables if you put a DJ cartridge on them but they both ship with decent Hi Fi carts for home listening. Both come with switchable preamps that most normal people seem to have no problem with, and will easily work well with phono inputs or separate pres if you decide to go that route. You can always add gear and upgrade poo poo down the road.
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Hey, thanks for the quick and definitive advice guys. I'll keep you updated on how I go!
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LEDs for the SX-727 arrived today. Swapping them out only took 30 minutes, but involved taking the entire faceplate off. Yeesh. Pretty pleased with the results though:  Anyone looking to do it to their SX-x2x receiver can find instructions here.
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I put some lights in my new receiver too. I used incandescent this time because I could get a box of #53 bulbs for 50 cents each. I'm growing to really like the look of this JVC.
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Welp, looks like I’m going to have to sell the 727. The speaker relay intermittently kicks on when I power it up and I can’t afford to fix it right now. Got laid off last week.
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Anyone have a marantz 2xxx to sell? Kinda maybe thinking about one for my office.
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Ghostnuke posted:Anyone have a marantz 2xxx to sell? Kinda maybe thinking about one for my office. I have a 2235b but it's my baby and I don't wanna part with it tbh 
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64bit_Dophins posted:I have a 2235b but it's my baby and I don't wanna part with it tbh Then you treasure that baby until you die. To anyone else though, I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron, projects are ok.
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I think I scored pretty well on the Facebook Marketplace. Sony PS-X600 direct-drive turntable with the BIOTRACER electronically controlled tonearm. 3 spare headshells, 2 new in box SHURE V15 IV-MR cartridge and needle SONY XL-44L cartridge and needle Dynavector KARAT 17D cartridge and needle ORSONIC DS-250 Disc Stabilizer and a bunch of misc. tools including this vintage all for $300 CAD
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SHAQ4PREZ posted:I think I scored pretty well on the Facebook Marketplace. I bought a Sony PS-X50 last year for $60 and put $120 into getting it into operating shape. The drat thing is built like a tank and sounds wonderful. Older Sony turntables usually go under-appreciated because of how lovely their new ones are. Nice score.
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SHAQ4PREZ posted:I think I scored pretty well on the Facebook Marketplace. Dang, son. I've been trying to find one of these BioTracer Sonys for AGES.
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I know this should be (and probably already is) posted in an audiophile thread on SA, but for some reason I thought it needed a mention here, if only for the badass turntable and nice looking record collection shown in the HBO show Sharp Objects. If anyone here has seen even the first episode, they’ve definitely noticed the setup that the main character’s stepfather has. From what this article says, the system costs more than $112,000, and that’s before special wires or magic crystals, etc. Some of the normally looked over components that are common in this thread: $1000 Ortophon cartridge. $3000 headphones. $4300 headphone amp. $13,000 phono preamp. http://www.vulture.com/amp/article/sharp-objects-home-stereo-system.html empty baggie fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Aug 14, 2018 |
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empty baggie posted:I know this should be (and probably already is) posted in an audiophile thread on SA, but for some reason I thought it needed a mention here, if only for the badass turntable and nice looking record collection shown in the HBO show Sharp Objects. If anyone here has seen even the first episode, they’ve definitely noticed the setup that the main character’s stepfather has. From what this article says, the system costs more than $112,000, and that’s before special wires or magic crystals, etc. That’s not badass, that’s just the most diminishing returns thing aside from also having speakers that cost $112,000 or more.
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When I said badass it was more of “wow, that dude has a really nice setup”. After discovering how much that poo poo cost, “badass” turned into “dumbass” quick. I have a feeling the production team didn’t spend a penny on any of that besides rental fees on the records. I would like to think that the company that makes overpriced A/V equipment jumped at the chance to show off their stuff to HBO’s audience. poo poo looks sick, tho. My phono preamp cost me about $30, and it sounds great, so I can’t imagine how great a $13,000 one sounds. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Aug 14, 2018 |
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The plot of the show is supposed to involve the fact that the family is stupidly rich anyway. So it works.
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empty baggie posted:
The same. It sounds the same.
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I'm not some hypersperg so it may just be me. But my hand me down record player into a cheap phono amp plugged directly into my headphones sounds just great.
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empty baggie posted:... My phono preamp cost me about $30, and it sounds great, ... Link pls!
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I had one of these for a while and really liked it https://www.amazon.com/ART-DJPREII-..._a_1_fkmrnull_3 but then I found a used NAD locally for $80 and much prefer that (partly due to the extra controls, the sound is only marginally better)
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