my turn in the barrel posted:

Yeah deoxit will need to be reapplied every few years, especially if the pot is super nasty to begin with and if you don't regularly exercise it.

On older gear that is really nasty I will generally start with QD electronics cleaner then crank the pot up and down about 20 times, then repeat then switch to Dexoit and repeat the apply crank up and down 20 times and then repeat to flush out as much as I can with QD before applying the deoxit. Generally after a few yearly cleanings you will get the pots clean enough that they can go longer before needing to be cleaned again.

The only thing you should avoid with deoxit is the tuner gangs which look like fins that will rotate when you adjust the tuner.

Technically they make a separate product called fader lube for the balance control fader but I have always used just regular deoxit on my marantz balance and EQ faders.

Some things like power switched will get burned up over time from use so if possible just hook everything into a PowerBar and plug that into a switched outlet or a smartplug and use that to turn your system on.

The Science Goy posted:

Where did you order that sexy beast?

I want to make an enclosure for my 2238 but I don't know if I can get the grill right, and that looks like a near perfect reproduction in the pic.

BigFactory posted:

Try to sell it for $36.

an iksar marauder posted:

There’s a lot of variety here, how much weight do they need to support/how big a base size? And are you looking for tall/slender ones or blockier ones?

BigFactory posted:

As an aside, I like Infinites as much as the next guy but man do their designs look more of a time compared to some other speakers. I think it’s the oak veneer maybe. They sound great though

namlosh posted:

I have a pair of Sony speakers that I bought at auction for about $17. They are 4 feet tall and they work just fine but that part doesn’t matter. I’ll sell them to you for $100 and you can just place your speakers on top of them and not hook them up.

Bing bang boom

DoesNotCompute posted:

I was about to recommend the Kanto SX22’s but they’re around $300. I would say they’re ceiling of price to performance for stands though. Close to 30lbs of flat black powder coated steel, levelling feet, comes with a full bag for up to 30 more pounds of sand, cable channel, two sizes of speaker mounting bases. But most importantly they just look simple and nice. Not tacky like most of the Amazon offerings. Any more money than that and you’re into audiophile dumb dumb tax.

ephori posted:

Also have a look on Etsy for speaker stands. There’s a huge variety and you can probably find some specific to your model of speaker. I got some steel stands for my hundred-pound Altecs off Etsy made by a dude in Poland, sized exactly to my cabinets.





[Edit] the catch is it took five months to arrive

ephori posted:

Sheep posted:

Did you get this from the Vintage Audio Cabinets seller in Orid, Serbia on Etsy? I have 2238 that needs a wooden home and this looks right up my alley if so.

petit choux posted:

CEDs? Wha?

BigFactory posted:

This is the other cool piece of gear I got at that estate sale. Haven’t played around with it yet.

Ok Comboomer posted:

lmao it appears to have sold out already, Christ

Ok Comboomer posted:

they probably destroyed all of that tooling and manufacturing infrastructure long ago

Sony doesn’t really make their revenue from electronics and personal audio/video stuff anymore, for all that they’re still in TV/phone/media player/radio/car audio/blu ray/etc manufacturing and licensing.

If you look at how Sony is structured today vs the past, this kind of stuff is a relative tiny fraction of their revenue compared to when they were the Walkman/Trinitron company and shipping a gorillion CD player variants.

Sony in 2022 makes the overwhelming bulk of their money off of PlayStation, Sony Pictures/Sony Music, selling camera modules to manufacturers like Apple, and investments in poo poo like financial services.

Even if they wanted to do it, I’m sure that their recent forays into other nostalgia/enthusiast products like their hifi separates and special edition “Walkman” nostalgia bait mp3 player has shown them that the money to make a bunch of new cassette decks is probably much better spent invested in a new Spider-Man movie or Hideo Kojima project or a million other things.

Audio Technica is a “turntables and headphones and microphones, and basically nothing else” company—so for them the relative outlay to bring back a limited run of Sound Burgers has much more value and potential ROI.

strtj posted:

What Marantz gear are you trying to match? I would definitely get a direct drive over a belt drive from that era.

Just checked eBay sales and the high end models (6200 / 6300) are going for absolutely stupid amounts of money. They're fine turntables, sure, but that's a wacky amount of money to be spending for the amount of performance you're getting. Are you more interested in sound quality or are you more interested in having a matched system?

RIP Paul Walker posted:

Is that a new thing from ikea?! It looks drat near perfect.

my turn in the barrel posted:

That shelf looks great, is it sturdy enough to support 150+ pounds on top? My marantz 150 tuner and 510m power amp weigh a ton and I just added that $20 pioneer RT-707 so I'm slightly concerned it'd be way too heavy. The only thing I would like to add is a 5020 or 5220 cassette deck if I ever find a deal on one but that shouldn't add much to the present system weight.

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As far as Marantz turntables go, aside from the SLT they were all made by CEC for Marantz and while they look fantastic they are not the greatest turntables for the amount they sell for now.

I lucked into my 6300 for $400 at a record store a few years ago. I threw on a repop dustcover and have only had to deoxit the speed control pots a few times and I still need to replace the strobe as the stock one is intermittent.

Corb3t posted:

I just realized Audio Technica re-released the Sound Burger and I really want one. Pair it with a Sonos Move 2 and I'd a pretty great indoor/outdoor portable vinyl setup.