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I have some very nice matching white Beovox Redline 60.2 to go with it. They're just not set up right now because of space constraints.
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Glad someone is taking care of 212s. I just threw out a cosmetically beautiful one I picked up at a flea market, but the belt had gotten so old it had liquefied and covered EVERYTHING under the platter. I tried cleaning it, but I just had to give up.
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Picked up a defective Beosound Ouverture with Beolab 2500 speakers for $50. I think it's the fourth or fifth one I've owned. Two swipes over the laser lens with a q-tip, and it plays perfectly.
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Apr 24, 2019 09:42
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mango sentinel posted:I'm about to get my in-laws ancient stereo setup. You can use plastic renewer like you would on car bumpers to clean it somewhat up. Also dish soap to clean off dirt first.
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Dec 27, 2019 19:49
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Discernibly Turgid posted:If there’s any interest I can share a couple of those. 
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Jun 26, 2020 07:15
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Great finds the last few days, I picked up a Beocenter 8500 in great working condition for $50, with the usual problem of the front glass having come loose. I spent all of Sunday trying double sided tape from a craft store to reattach it, but it didn't last. Will have to source some 3M bathroom tape or similar. Yesterday I hit the jackpot and got a fat stack of equipment. JVC and Sonys top-model VCRs, Pioneer CLD-M5 laserdisc player, Sony MDS-JB920 minidisc, Sharp MD-R3 Minidisc+CD changer, Pioneer DV-656a DVD player and a few more things that aren't as interesting. The main event though were these, Sony APM-22ES speakers:  They sound absolutely incredible! I have only tested the speakers so far, will work on the rest of it today. Not a bad haul for $100
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Jul 21, 2020 07:11
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Taking the opportunity to show off my Sony stack that I finally finished collecting from classifieds and flea markets. It'd be easy to put together something nicer, but not something this nice for cheaper. Lots of dust and battle scars, but that's part of the charm. Will be matched with the Sony APM speakers I posted earlier.
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Oct 16, 2020 13:37
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Proving once again that the improvised setup is always the best setup, a BeoSound Ouverture, BeoLink Passive and my newly acquired KEF LS50 on some ancient stands:
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Mar 25, 2021 08:56
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TooLShack posted:Sold my Minidisc player awhile back and regretted it, I was lucky last week and found a Sony MZ-RH1 for 75 bucks. Now to make mix discs again! Very much so  Edit: Might as well throw in my new home office setup after I tidied up a bit. I have a Chromecast Audio connected to the optical in on the Minidisc player, so it acts like a DAC, which until I hook up my speakers makes this an extremely unnecessarily complicated streaming/headphone amplifier setup. Also, the tape deck needs new belts, and they are not easy to swap on this one  
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I messed around with recording from Spotify to minidisc via optical on the Chromecast Audio yesterday. Turns out it does not separate tracks like playing from a CD player does.
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May 19, 2021 12:29
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strtj posted:Wasn't there some sort of explicit signaling from the CD player to the MD recorder in order for that track separation to work correctly? Or was it just detection of complete digital silence? It's been a really long time since I've had to deal with any of this. Would you have preferred my SACD to cassette tape setup?
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May 19, 2021 18:42
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Did someone say square woofers?
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Jun 5, 2021 21:25
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I think they may have made even larger ones. These are APM 22ES from the mid 80s. They absolutely do sound different and interesting, in the very best positive meaning of ways. Very deep and well controlled. I haven't been able to push them to the limit due to living in an apartment building, but so far they have played anything and everything I've thrown at them really well, and haven't sounded stressed. I guess that's just an advantage of displacing a lot of air. They were meant to go with my previously posted ES stack, but I don't have room for it anywhere right now The stands are generics, and pretty old. That minidisc/APM setup is adorable!
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After a nearly 5 year hunt, I finally got a reasonably priced pair of Beolab 8000s yesterday, with a bonus Beosound 2300 CD player. Haven't had much time to test them out today, but I will hook up my streaming solution consisting of a Chromecast Audio connected via optical to a Sony MDS-JB920 later today and let all the neighbors know that I have new speakers.
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Oct 6, 2021 14:32
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Kneel before the monolith.
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It's been a while since I posted any finds, since the pandemic and having a home life I was happy with reduced my treasure hunts quite a bit. I couldn't let this find pass me by though! One of the true original characters of my city runs a diner and lunch place near where I work, and when looking him up, he said that he like selling his handpicked decor, so I made him an offer on this: A Tandberg Huldra 12! It's been beatifully conserved under a thick layer of grill grease, so after a good cleaning, it came out spectacular! The pots will still need cleaning, but just look at it!  
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Nov 11, 2022 22:43
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Ok Comboomer posted:How do ppl feel about TEKTON? I see a lot of people that absolutely swear by them and a lot of people that dismiss their stuff as little more than glorified Dayton Audio kit speakers covered in automotive paint If you're curious, just buy a preowned pair so that you can sell them again without losing much money if you don't like them. A bunch of them were featured in the latest Audiophiliac viewer system videos, so for what it's worth, audiophiles like them.
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Nov 16, 2022 09:09
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Picked up a Bluesound Powernode 2 at a thrift store. I've tried it on my Bose 301 Vs and Sony APM-22ESs. It pisses me off just how good this thing that is barely bigger than three DVD covers stacked actually is.
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Nov 21, 2022 15:49
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Feels Villeneuve posted:aww. it's just kinda cool, honestly. You can get DVD/SACD players all over the place for cheap, because people think they are just DVD players. Pure SACD players usually cost more, because audiophile brainvirus.
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Jan 13, 2023 14:18
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Buy a 3000 hz testing tape from eBay. Your tape decks have pots inside them where you can adjust playback and record levels and speed. Get a frequency counter app for your phone to check and adjust the speed, use the volume meters to check that you have adjusted playback on both channels to the same level. Look up a reference signal on youtube, feed it to your tape decks through your phone, and adjust the record levels so that they are even.
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olives black posted:Update: Just got the test tape and threw it in the Nakamichi BX-100. Yeah, the left channel is WAY off. There are level adjustment pots inside your tape deck. Google a service manual to find them. That's where you adjust the output volume of each channel to make them even,
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Jun 11, 2023 16:00
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Once I started buying decent CD players with Sony and Philips-based mechanisms, decades old discs that I thought were rotten and scratched beyond hope played perfectly fine. Most CD players are fairly simple mechanically and electronically too, and easy to service. It will still be a long time before there is any serious danger of the technology dying out.
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xpostin' from GBS My home office is done, so my Sony stereo finally got its forever home:  The tape deck is connected to the minidisc player, which is connected digitally to the Powernode, which powers the actual speakers. The Sony amplifier is just for looks right now. It really is ridiculous just how versatile and good the Powernode is.
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Sep 25, 2023 16:04
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afen posted:Some of my cool stash: I love it all!
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afen posted:Thank you! I really love 80s and 90s hifi with wood panels. I'm dreaming about a Sony TA-N77ES, but they're somewhat costly. Just look at it: May I show you my Sony things? This is hopefully its forever home in my home office:
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:My mom has an old cabinet-stereo system like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fTuKAQ6fk These record players were dirt simple. If you just open it up it might be immediately visible whatever is the cause of it not working. It already doesn't work and you already know that nobody else will fix it, it's not like you have anything to lose by messing around with it yourself.
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Matt Zerella posted:Hi folks, any recommendations for a phono preamp? You've already gotten some good recommendations, but I'll add the NAD PP2/PP2e/PP2i, I've had a couple and always been happy with the sound from them.
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