vintage

Hello! I'd like to pair my vintage receiver with a pair of modern tower speakers, but have a low knowledge base where it comes to non vintage speakers. My current setup is a Marantz 2325 reciever (125 w into 8 ohm ) driving a pair of AR11 speakers, drawing from a turntable, CD player, and...

Some days ago, a friend of mine visited me with a Revox A700 Tape recorder to do some listening comparisons. To preserve these auditory impressions, we played a playlist from Roon, recorded the signal with the tape recorder, and simultaneously digitized the tape monitor output. This was the...

So I've been happily using a second hand Accuphase E-202 for the past 6 months. Besides cleaning out the inside, contact spray and replacing the VU Meter LED's, the amplifier didn't need any further repair. I haven't even bothered replacing the capacitors, as is commonly suggested in vintage...

So I know a lot of people probably don't look back fondly on the PC speakers of the 1980's, 90's, and early 2000's. But I remember some of them sounding really good to me. Now I am trying to put together a retro station with a Philips 27" CRT I acquired that looks really good. Speakers crackle...

I am curious to find out if there has been a “ruling”, study or conclusion that older amplifiers sound quality is generally better than the newer ones? (Not talking reliability) I see comments every now and then about how good a 30 or 40 years old amplifier sounds and is much better than...

Picked up a pair of Lenco K106 headphones today since they were cheap and I figured I'd have a go to see how they sounded, even if I'm inexperienced with the audio world as a whole. I have little idea where to begin with this cable... Is it any sort of old standard? Most images of the K106...

I unexpectedly got my hands on this interesting unit. It's a guitar amplifier, but it has no preamp so it should technically be a simple tube amp. Since it has two channels it can technically be used as a stereo home audio amplifier. If that would make sense and how it compares to actual 'hifi'...

hi I have had for 4 years now a PM 25 which works well and I love, I lack some new features like optical output etc, I know there are much newer amps (mine is from 1985-1990 approx). those are the specs from a new one Mesures Réponse en fréquence (entrée analogique) : 10 Hz à 40 kHz Rapport...

Refurbishment over the last 5 years. Woofers refoamed. Midrange drivers refoamed. Ferrofluid replaced in HF tweeters. File Image Crossover capacitors replaced like for like, bipolar electrolytics from HifiCollective, back in 2018. Mundorfs and some others which are a nice green colour. Speaker...

This is fr This is harmonic distortion And this is group delay This headphone is pioneer monitor 10 Which is launched at 1975 and discounted at 1980 It looks like this. Of course, the performance is not good compared to the current one, but it looks good for the item at the time.

Hello everyone ! First thread here, I hope I'm creating it the right way ! (... And I'm french furthermore, sorry for my non-perfect english !) So i rented a house last week, in which were 2 vintage floorstanding speakers, without any reference (except an unknow logo at the front) I did some...

Pictures of recently-uncovered Panasonic 8-track player, which still plays well after a few years in the garage.

Kindly help me understand why my setup cannot power vintage bookshelf speakers. I couldn’t find an answer in previous similar thread -https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/topping-d90-a90-with-power-amp-and-subwoofers.30702/ Mac to D10 to Topping A90 to XLR output to...

Time to let go some of my vintage gear, and clear up the clutter! I'm mostly judging interest here. This preamp was brought in by an aquaintence from Japan back in the early 70s. It includes the original Japanese owners manual, the English version (US, presumably) and US service manual. The wood...

Here’s your chance to own something very rare and cool. Has anyone heard these? Seen measurements? https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/jbl-model-d44000-paragon-140-c-1e247ada25

Greetings, all! Sorry in advance if my issue has been covered before countless times; I'm a new member who just discovered this great site today: My setup is a bit odd: I have two Technics 1200s (one a MK5, and the other a brand new 1210-GR); one has an AT-VM540ML and the other an AT-VM740ML...

I kind of miss the fun the colorful CD-Rs that companies used to make. I'll speak in USD prices (combined selling price + shipping) and show stock photos. The baseline/reference is Verbatim's 100pack plain non-inkjet discs that sell for $20 to $22. Images on this first post are not owned by me...

Like the title says.

My journey so far... I've been on the hi-fi merry-go-round for a little while now, and having an engineering background, decided to go the vintage route as an attempt to save on costs. I've found that after re-capping these units from the 70's, these units generally perform quite well...

This thread is being created for the purpose of rambling on about vintage and retro audio - with a hope that the significance and lasting power of various innovations and technologies related to high fidelity audio will be included. I expect the discussion to be random thoughts on the subject...