How would your listeners rate the 99s I wonder?

I have a Pioneer VSX4600 from my days in the military overseas. Also a Pioneer CT-m6R cassette deck. I really still enjoy those with a pair of Polk Audio RTA 11t monitor series speakers. I had a couple other speakers for using in a simulated surround sound set up.. 😂.. Also to go with the 6 cassette deck player I had a 6 cd player I could sync with the cassette deck and record cd to cassette

Klipsch

Looped r51a??

I had an all Harmon/Kardon system I purchased in the 1980’s. I had a T45 turntable. I sold that (and regretted it), a PM640 amp which I still own, but about 2 years ago, it developed a distortion issue and I believe it needs to be recapped. I still own the TU910 Tuner though I’m not using it at this time. And I had the CD391 tape deck. The tape deck, I loved it, but it didn’t love me. It broke 3 times and after the third time I sold it for parts. Despite the unreliable tape deck, I have a soft spot for Harmon Kardon of the old days. Personally, the styling of the ‘70’s gear doesn’t do anything for me. Thanks for the vid

do you have a link or name of the guy who repairs the 9191?

I got a 330 C from my dad when he upgraded sold it for 25 bucks at a garage sale boy do I regret it

Never be afraid to play with your knob.🤣🤣

Here in Canada, Tandy/Optimus/ Realistic brands were all part of the Radio Shack stores.

What about the Luxman L-430???

What about Luxman??

It’s so expensive you can get the fluance RT85 that comes with the ortofon 2m blue. Electronic 33/45 rpm switch and a cue level for $500

1982 in Parsippany NJ. Got approached at a 7/11. I got a pair for 75 bucks. Got them home and new I was scammed. I took them apart and refitted with better used speakers and still have them to this day.

I have enjoyed cassettes for the last 50 years and I now have a refurbished JVC DD-7. I get a kick out of people who visit when I have a tape playing and they're shocked when I tell them that they are listening to a cassette. You get out whatever you put into it, no matter the purpose or audience.

I came here to share this mostly because you were the only people who might appreciate it. TLDR version. I just scored a pair of the L100s at the Goodwill bins for $40. Got them to work by spring some electronic cleaner by the knobs on the pots. What are other people doing for a grill covers? I'm not sure I want original style contoured foam at this point. The novel version: I've been on a quest to get some nicer speakers (but at a ridiculously low price) and accumulated a bunch of OK speakers. I might need to open up my own shop now to get rid of them 🤣 Yesterday, I stopped by the Goodwill bins mostly because I needed to take a pee break and it's a business where I know I can run in and do that. While I was there I browsed the furniture section and, low and behold, they had a pair of JBL L100's for sale for $40. Best pit stop ever. They must've just put them out because I saw other guys walking around with speakers in their shopping carts. I knew, from this video (and probably other videos on this channel) that JBL's were one of the best speaker brands. I didn't remember which one the 100s were until I looked up the reviews and then it clicked that these were the ones you talked about being in the Maxell ad, etc. Some of the drivers weren't working or were working intermittently when I plugged them in. This speaker has two pots on each one to control tone, I sprayed a little electronic cleaner on the edge of of the knobs hoping it would seep in and clean things up without even opening it up. After cycling the knobs a few times the speakers started working perfectly! I'm guessing somebody got rid of these because they got tired of speakers that were broken. Even the cases are in very good shape. One of them has a pretty good ding in one corner but I should be able to fix that with a little putty and wood stain. One of the speakers was on display upside down on a cement floor so I'm lucky there isn't more damage. They don't have the original contour foam covers. Somebody did do a nice job recovering them with normal cloth. I typically enjoy restoring things to their original state. However, as unique as those grill covers are, I'm not sure I really want them in my house at this point with a shedding dog and rambunctious kids. Curious what other people have done with their grill covers. Buy the aftermarket replacement covers or, if not, what kind of cool cloth have people used or would would recommend? Was considering maybe looking for a grill cloth in one of the original colors. This is especially true I have a lot of orange accents in my living room already

Fun, fun, fun! I'm lovin' it!

All the videos of yours that I've watched have been through my 9090DB that is to my knowledge all original. That and my SX-1250 are my main receivers in use. I know my 9090DB is on borrowed time, do you think I should have it inspected by a tech just in case? Only issue is one lamp goes in and out. That and I need to clean the controls again, its been a few years.

Your video is a joke. Assuming McIntosh is poor can you explained why many celebrities or professional musicians (in addition to past celebrities such as Howard Hughes, George Harrison, and Jerry Garcia, some notable artists and audio aficionados who own McIntosh gear for personal use today are John Mayer, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Cruise and Bob Weir. You can verify this on the Wikipedia page of McIntosh. According to your extremely poor video do you believe these guys are death? The only reason I can imagine for your crazy video is that you probably make more profit by reselling mostly poorJapanese gear (where is Accuphase?) than when reselling McIntosh units.

Lenco? Rega must be #1

And now Harmon/kardon is owned by Samsung 😢

Stereo stores have gone extinct. I liked the 70s stereos and speakers.

Great video 100 % agree. I just bought a Technics EQ for $25 at a Goodwill store and it made my stereo sound so much better. Thanks for the advice. There are a lot of good use EQ from the late 80’ that really work.

I had all the kiss cards. Turn them over and complete the pictures

I am 63, and cassettes were crap, even back in the 70's, 80's, etc. Prerecorded tapes were crap. Making mix tapes on a quality cassette deck, with quality tapes such as TDK SA, Maxell UDXL 2, Basf Cr02, was decent. These kids have Spotify, etc. There is no reason for cassettes these days.

Thanks again for your videos...hope you don't mind if i ask and if you have time to answer. Do you have any idea how I can get fm Signal to be better on my pioneer sx1250 . It is in the basement and only get one Chanel..iv tried the power type with amplifiers on it but still nothing.. I'd appreciate any info on how to improve.. thank you sir

I’ve had my Technics 3300 turntable for 30 years or so

I just bought a cassette deck at Goodwill. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Anyway, great video and thanks for introducing Dust Follows to us.

Thanks , I ordered that same solder ... Was having trouble with the " thrown in " solder ❤

Our current set-up consists of a pair of stacked ADVENT(large) speakers...on pair I've owned since new in the '70's, the other paie were my mom's, also from the '70's...my pair has the walnut veneer(refinished), mom's pair are the ulility cabinet...all have had the LF driver surround replaced...these seem to play effortlessly, with a balanced if slightly directional sound...quite pleasurable...the "other speakers in the room" are ESS Bookshelf units purchased as dealer demos in the early 80's (also with rebuilt LF driver surrounds)...(David)...

Everything has improved, evolved and simplified to the point that we now have things like the Fosi V3 Mono amps. Small, simple, efficient, and sound great too

What about The Fisher? There’s one vintage stereo place here in Chicago who swear by vintage Fisher (usually labeled The Fisher).

I recently bought one of those Scrub Daddy sponges. They become soft in warm/hot water and supposedly will not scratch surfaces. Might be another good option.

Thanks for clearing up about your use of hats. I always suspected your brain was exposed with a glass dome

I bought a pair of Dogg Digital speakers at a pawn shop. This was prob 15 years ago. I knew they were white van speakers. I just rolled the dice. They look a lot like the Davincis configuration you showed but without all that shinny chrome. Two 8”, tweeter in between and a side facing sub. They were regular black veneer but they did have metal grills that looked like an animal cage bars screwed to the front of the speaker, protecting the drivers. . It didn’t look bad. But they looked like something you would have in your dorm room or a bachelors pad. More along the old Cerwin vegas look. I did hit the white van speaker lottery because they sounded great. Either someone worked on the crossover and then pawned them or it was one of those strange instances of an honest company trying to go legit with their sound. I haven’t seen them in the wild anymore. I ended up selling them and purchasing a pair of klipsch that looked lot nicer for a family residence.

Excellent video, as always. I recently had a complete restoration of my 2270 performed, and while it *may* sound a little different, those minute changes are not detrimental to the sound at all. It may be insane, but I'm so glad I took the plunge. This machine might well outlive me!

Still wish mini discs would come back. They are a great format that was just a few years ahead of its time. I have a couple of full-size player/recorders along with several portable units, and they all still work great. I have a number of mix-discs (if that's what you call them), and I just use an audio jack to play them in my car.

One of my friends told me he bought speakers from a white van and said they were good sounding. Just what he said. Not sure if they were legit. Then yrs after I got approached by a white van and thinking of his experience, I bought some to find out they were rat poo. Live & learn. Not much smarter these days but just gotta laugh and that's probably what I really bought.

I have a set of JBL L60T's. Would this be able to power them? I am an extreme noob when it comes to home audio. Thanks!

Great channel. You just tell it like it is. No BS. You got my vote for president. Keep it up.

Kevin, a simple solution to your rack re- arranging issue : leave a slot or 2 open at the bottom of each row. When you add a new one you only have to move a part of that row (until you buy several more for that row). When I maxed out a row then I would re- arrange the whole thing (leaving 2 spaces). Glad to see you back !

i know a lot of people still using that deck ,never heard of having problems in makin`it work, i had the litle CT-F2121 that still looks and works as new today but my grandfather that year in the christmas gave me a CT-F1000 is still today a excelent deck if well mantained as my first receiver also from pioneer late 60´s model and phillips speakers that look so bad but incredible how good they sound today as my second reel to reel deck a akai X-165D from 1970 catalog crossfield something still plays and records today, for my surprise better than most of the cassette decks using only ferric tapes and a PL-51 turntable that looks and works as new

I have the SA 8100 and matching tuner. Love em both. My brother has the SA9100 but not a tuner. Another great vid! Thanks.

i also saw a video about pre-recorded cassetes but i only bought 7 my entire life normally in vacations and wanting to hear a new album, i went for a the who album after the drummer death and it´s a Polydor cassette that i remenber sounding very good ,i put it to play and it sounded real good has i remenbered when rewinding it, it broke the tape in the start, well i have to open it like i used to do but it didn´t bother me to have the trouble in doing that ,other is the first Boston lp in cassette bought in the U.S. and it sounds real good but in less than a song it dirts the heads , so i stoped playing them but i found a More album also in cassette that isn´t a very good album but it as two of my favorite pink floyd songs the nile song and Ibiza bar ,it´s the OST from a barbet schroeder movie who shows the foolness so to speak of young people at the time and shows a portrait very far from what was Ibiza at the time that i once a year in the summer used to go there and in contrast to today´s Ibiza island full of disco´s, night clubs, beach nightclubs with music ,hotels, etc. at the time was only a fishing vikllage with a church and don´t know how many but in a part of the island there were caves by the rocks in the beach where all young people used to sleep and spent there their holidays the first thing one noticed is that all were completelly naked this boys and girls from every european country and others too ,but a sea of youth and all was fairplay, if you appear with some swiming shorts ,all eyes were on you as it looked strange, but the movie is a excess of youth ignorance about the real world , i went there so many years that i can´t recall people adicted to heroin, there was a older guy who was a fisherman selling drugs but mostly at the time all wanted weed or hachiche with Marocco so near and was a symphatectic guy never saw him with a beahviour less than Polite ,at the time music was more played than hearing cassettes, 8-tracks or records there was a litle night club with music ,excelent at the time but you could enter and get out as it had two big doors all opened, if you wanted a fresh beer you paid and drink it nothing more, sometimes when two drunk kids started to fight two regular guys ,fisherman would try to separate them don´t remenber any girl being raped or any guy being beaten down as it happens today a lot,sorry for the story but i have the tendencie to writte about when talking about it,i was refering to the old but excelent pre-recorded cassette of More o.s.t. by pink floyd and remenbered those years, the first cassette deck i bought was the CT-F2121 from Pioneer as i only needed cassettes for a car i had ,everything else was recorded on reels ,my grandfather later when seeing my deck ofered me in 1976 CT-F1000 , the CT-F2121 looks new todays and is working perfect as the CT-F1000, only substituted the belts nothing else the CT-F1000 was and his still a great cassette deck and with all these years never had to be repaired only some maintenance and mainly the belts or other parts that are worn out in the play/record section, like the pinch roller

I would be perfectly happy with a pair of small AR speakers so long as I had a good subwoofer for bass. Indeed I had a pair of AR 15 speakers (not the guns!) until I sold them just before making a move across country. These speakers sounded much the same in the high-to-midrange zone whether giant or small speakers. They differed only in the depth of bass response. It's unfortunate that the audio business is what it is, but I remember when college students spent the equivalent of the cost of a used car so that their music could sound good back in the 1970's. Most of the audio business is the sale of schlock electronics such as those available in rent-to-own rip-off emporia. Cheap, shoddy stuff intended to last only through the rental contract!

Prerecorded cassettes? Not for me. I always bought records (eventually CDs) and blank tapes. My TEAC A-170S deck did a great job, as did my HK TD392. The last time I played a tape I made in the 1980s it sounded as good as I hoped it would. I still have some high-quality unopened blank cassettes such as TDK SA-X and Maxell UDS-II. Someday maybe I'll again use one to make a copy of a CD or LP that is worth the effort.

Generalized opinions usually fall flat on their face, just like women pigeon wholing men into stereotypes. Kenwood (Trio) actually covered enormous price point categories. They had higher quality lines like the Supreme Series, the L07/09 series, the high speed series and the 9600 series. Technics had its prosumer lines (R&B) as well. Unfortunately it seems that Skylabs has never come across these jewels, or peered deep into their inards, for it would render this topic a dead end proposition.

Since these old recievers are usually in need of new parts at this point in time. If you want a bigger power supply, put one in. The Hovland HP100 is not a huge circuit. The chasis has plenty of space inside. But, when it comes down to performance it is legendary! I do agree that gimmicky additional circuits will add to reliability issues. Keeping transformers and power supplies away from the signal path. Can be the reason for space between circuits and a well practice to be sure.

Those Brauns are awesome, Alot of us were totally thrown off by that ( non dome ) mid but yup its original!!! Good lookin speakers!

Hi Kevin, I've heard you state many times that 15-30 watts per channel is ample in most situations but I don't recall ever hearing someone explain the "why" it's ample. If you have explained it before, would you mind doing so again? Thank you for all that you do in keeping a/v history/past continue to positively impact current/future generations.

Do you consider the Sanyo 2050 a sleeper? I like the styling….