Vintage HiFi Audio Forum
Audio Discussion => List your system => Topic started by: OldiesButGoodies on November 23, 2010, 11:06:11 PM
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Changed things around. Yammy receiver - RX-V3900, JBL 4410 Front, Left and Center. The front presence speakers (Yamaha unique thing - kind of cool for football games) are custom made cheapies with an ok Vifa tweet. In the back, Energy diposes and NHT Super Zeros on the sides.
Sub is the Velo with a dead plate amp running passive driven by two channels of a Parasound HCA-1206 in bridged mono mode (which is hanging vertically from the wall in the eq area). Actually sounds good!
Room surfaces are harsh - need to work on tweaking that.
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Also set up the Sansui 7000 (using the Sansui Q-800 as power amp) with the Polk 5Jrs in the room next to the theater as audio only for the basement - in other words, I did not have anywhere else to put it, and I love looking at the meters...
Pepe
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nice setup.....neet how you mounted your amp
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nice setup.....neet how you mounted your amp
Agree!!! 8)
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Thanks on the fdbk... the willingness to experiment with unique mounting schemes goes up as the equipment sputters - that Parasound has two bad channels out of the six...
The Sansui FM audio is coming out just slightly distorted - I plan to read the service manual to see what are my options. It is not bad yet irritating enough to notice. Any hints as to where to start let me know. iPod audio gets processed beautifully, an I de-oxy'it all the usual locations.
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Very nice. Love the old Sansui..
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Wonder where those 3 JBL's on CL went to... :P :P
The setup looks great, Pepe! What inspired you to mount that amp vertically?
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Very nice setup!
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I ran out of rack spaces in a previous config that included a turntable, so I decided to use the L brackets to hold the Parasound. When I brought it back from Tom's store I just plopped it there because it was convenient. I can play around with the inputs and potentiometers easily this way instead of having to crawl behind the rack.
Now I need a serious three channel amp to drive the JBLs with lots of overhead available... The Yamaha receiver is good for 140 "Crutchfield" watts per channel - so make that an iffy 90 watts at 8 ohms, unable to handle anything below 6 ohms... How can a receiver claim to have 140 watts x 7 channels and weigh only 32 pounds? Those are bullshit watts!
Cheers,
Pepe
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Now I need a serious three channel amp to drive the JBLs with lots of overhead available...
Pepe
Acurus makes a 200x3 amp. http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampsmult&1293725674&/Acurus-3x200-watts- (http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampsmult&1293725674&/Acurus-3x200-watts-)
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Way to go...Carver A-753X...the Three eyed Monster!!!!! 8) 8) 8)
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Congrats on the great looking system! I'm sure that it sounds awesome. You are living large.
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The Acurus would be a good choice for the right price. I would like to find a utilitarian amp that is not a looker but has the goods (all these equipment is hidden away in a closet) - maybe an ATI 1803 (no one talks about ATI anymore - they used to be popular ten years back).
The AV-753 is one rare mofo of an amp. It would be cruel to hide the eyes from listeners as the needles dance. So that Carver piece is out, unless Kingman is willing to sell me one for $400.