The Pioneer sounds much better it has a punch in bass over the yamaha

It’s a matter of how we perceive the sound. You could have the best speakers and receivers and if are kind of hearing impaired you’re done.

I own a single-ended amp and l love it 😍

Single-ended for me

the rectifier will not fry ....

Im a...boomer... and have 25 videos and 32 cd players...and 2 closets of ...cds...! And one record player........in the closet...lol...!

Another Tube evangelist with lots of words going around and around in circles using words like Bollocks over and over. Tubes are great and so are Solid state amps. Try them all and enjoy your music dont get caught up in the this is the best mantra.

You had me at pursuing light and joy. You'd have made a Great Jedi. Sharing your channel with audio friends. Hopefully boost your potential.

The moody blues, brilliant choice!

I had a Marantz 4415 Quadradial with SQ decoder. I took very good care of it and had it serviced. I wish I still had it.

I don't see how a fully automatic turntable keeps you from dropping the record. But I am with you with at least some automatic features. Really, having salvaged and repaired several vintage turntables which I currently own: if I had to choose any set of features, all that I really need is a toned arm lifting lever that gently sets the needle down and auto-stop where the tone arm lifts at the end and the record stops. I have to get up and walk to the turntable to flip the record anyway. It only takes one second to move the tone arm out of the way to flip the record over. However, when the auto return functions stopped working on some of my turntables, It took a lot more work to get them going again and then I didn't even have the auto stop function until then. If turntable is left for a long time, if you were automatic features there are means that there are many fewer places where the lubrication has turned to glue. It's much easier to clean or two spots rather than an entire, complicated cam and lever system (I'll just so you don't have to spend the one second pushing the tone arm back before the next record). I totally agree with everything else you said though 🙂

Buy a good set and go away

you can stick your lossless files and streaming services I'll take vinyl or CD's every time , even cassette tapes. I do not want to be reliant on the almighty and pervasive computers and downloads for music, besides your download is only as good as the original recording which with older music means tape, yes you can tickle it with digital remastering but then it's not original is it? Now some do that's fine but I like something tangible, something I can hold in my grasp. I am of the older generation, did you guess?

What do you use to clean the record and stylus before play? Thank you.

I built my amp to do well in both settings. I can switch from pentode to triode and apply negative feedback on the fly. I usullay find mysel using pentode with feedback 90% of the time. But when I sit down for some special jazz and vocal related stuff triode is where I go to. It sounds livelier then.

Hello sir , I truly agree with you and your regrets , after so many years had past and that cassette technology is dead, but like christian religion ( no pun intended, ) He will come back . many KZbin influentialist , they said, cassette decks will come back. believe me I have 35+ cassette deck - nakamichi - sony -pioneer- teac- sharp- JVC/ Victor , panasonic , AKAI and etc. I spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars to buy and ship it here in the US, the shipment itself is horribly expensive, all that you said is true " about the bad side of the cassette. " . I think I have an obsession to collect them , I have 50 different kinds of walkman cassette released only in Japan walkman. . I got them not working but I was able to change the gooey belts , now they're working, still I have to order the pinch roller because they hardened. . The reason I listen to your frustrations , is to convince me, myself and I, to stop buying cassette decks , aside from they're getting expensive . I can't event play ,them all . If you haven't seen it, Pls. Go To : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIGcaoOrbsaCqtE . .....More power to your channel.

39 min...Slew Rate means how quickly an Amp changes Output Voltage in response to change in Input Voltage..Volts / Time

Unfortunately I did not understand any thing...can please simplify the info

I would like a honest opinion. I am not an audiophile but I love the sound of vintage audio equipment. The problem is I cannot afford it. At least in the video I could hardly tell the difference. This Yamaha is discontinued but their later model 303BL is probably equivalent. Will I be wrong to buy the Yamaha.

Radiators are more efficient than open fires but I know which I would rather sit in front of. Frequency response only matters when a b ing one against the other, our ears will eq the difference.

everytime hifi goes up in technology we go down in sound quality, Tubes to Transistors, Class A to Class D amps...is this true ?

so Horn speakers are High Sens.. so I lose Bass and must get a subwoofer to compensate and high sens. speakers will expose noisy components , so are you better off with lower sens. speakers ?

Streaming is convenient, but there's nothing about streaming that compares emotionally to watching the damped door of my cassette deck open, inserting a CD into the tray, or putting a record on the turntable. That's why the popularity of physical media is on the upswing. I've owned a handful of CD players, but my favorite is the NAD 5000 I bought new in (I think) 1990. It's still box stock, and it won't play SACDs or DVD Audio (I have a modified Samsung DVD-HD950 for that), but it sure does a nice job with basic CDs, and as a transport with my Audio Alchemy DDE v1.0, the music is damn near alive.

I purchased the Pioneer along with Altec Segovia speakers in 72, while stationed in Germany. Great memories.

I have a lot of music on cassette, and if I want to listen to it I need a deck. Neither my Denon nor my Nakamichi has never eaten a tape.

why such small value filter caps in the power supply ?

Great video. Really enjoyed it.

6:15 hey! I saw a Philippine pressing of Help! The PARI sign below the "stereo" proves it... Just saying because I am from the Philippines. 🙂

I was wondering why no other techs here on yt talks about it. There are a few issues to consider: 1. Your phone probably weights more than a vinyl LP, it slows down the speed of the platter 2. Your phone isn't calibrated like all other phones 3. Measuring without tracking load of the record changes the speed of your TT 4. The Pioneer Pl-630(I have the same model here) is a descent TT and it's constantly measuring the speed of the platter and compensates the torque load with sensors even with your phone on top. Lower end TT does any kind of compensations. 5. Better use a frequency counter instead of the Fluke, because the most scopes struggles with dirt in grooves. Frequency counters do a better job on filtering out frequency spikes. 6. Laphroaig select is a good choice. SLÀINTE MHATH

Hello. I have a boombox which does not play any radio station clearly. Every station has static noise. My car radio plays them all good so the signal is good. The boombox is very clean inside and has a new fm antenna. Where should I check? TY

The vintage units from the 70’s are the way to go. I have two Pioneer receivers. An SX1000TW and an SX680. They have very different sounds. The SX1000 has a dark, warm tone and the SX680 has some bite to it. I pair the SX1000 with sensitive speakers and the SX680 with less sensitive speakers to take the edge off just a little. Both are fantastic.

Great... But a simple explanation WHY the other belt made the turntable too fast would be helpful. Size ? Surface grip ? You would think that a belt that didn't slip would cause a slower speed ?

I picked up some large Wharfedale Mach 5s last month for just £20 - good to listen to even without a re-cap. Also picked up a couple of Celestion SL6s for a bargain £70 but they need a little work.

I want to see distortion comparison. Can you do that?

Can you record it directly from your speaker wire ? So that we can hear your system without your room reflection characteristic. Or Use resister instead of speaker but I think it is not the way we usually use the amp.

Its your persoanl choice.

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Undoubtedly, the sound is better on the Pioneer receiver, otherwise the gramophone inputs on the old devices are much better done than on the new ones...

I totally disagree. Yes there can be problems. But there are problems with all kinds of media. There are many old recordings that are only on cassette tape. I find some amazing recordings in thrift stores. And what about those underground bands that smuggled their music out of Soviet run countries back in the 80s and 90s all on cassette. They had no abilities to make cds. I love my Akai and my Nakamichi. People say they can't really tell the difference between cassettes i made from cds and the cds. It all goes according the the entire chain of electronic equipment you are using. Cassettes do not suck I have over 700 of them and still buy them when i find a good one. You must be one of those audio snob. Digital is far from perfect I don't care how much you spend on a cd player mine cost $2400 new and sounds good, but I find most cd players are a bit bright, crisp and tiring and and I have had to take them apart to get a cd out when the draw stops working. Some cd player eventually start to misread the disc and skip so they too have to have maintenance and parts for high end cd players can be hard to get. As for streaming forget it you have to depend on a good consistant wifi signal or there are drop outs or noise. My Cambridge gets squelching noises from poor signals some radio stations are unlistenable. And all services do not have the same quality and there are library limitations where you can't find the music you want to hear. So streaming can suck. I bought a bluesound node and it sucked. I couldn't get the stations I listened to on my Cambridge so I returned it. The Eversolo got great reviews so I bought one its ok gets more of the streaming radio stations but there are still a few I can't get. It sounds better than when I bought with the eq upgrade, but I already have an equalizer. Are you one of those snob that says tone controls and eqs alter the original recording and should not be used, that if it sounds bad its poor quality equipment. Besides for all of that, the bottom line is that all types of equipment has its ups and downs and buying a cassette player is its own experience and should not be written off as out dated. I am a pro analog guy. Just do your research and don't buy a cassette player that was a cheap piece of junk when it was new. There are a lot of nice decks out there. Be aware they have some age and may need some care or maintenance, but their not disposable like streamers that you don't fix just trash when they become obsolete as the new best thing comes out. I love cassettes.

Living in the South the majority of my life, I can't tell you how this anthem has been overplayed. However, as I've grown older, I realize the impact that this talented band had during their heyday in the mid 70s. The 1977 concert in Oakland Coliseum. That couldn't happen today. Check that out and watch all those beauties in the audience.

I didn't hear any difference.

I miss Adcom. They made quality components! I will never give up my GFT-555 FM Tuner. Excellent sound.

What a great video, cheers for that! Surprised you used sticky tape, I used to superglue mine. Yes, you brought back bad memories!! 😄🙂 But I'm not rich, I don't have servants, how will I digitise my tapes without a cassette deck? Oh, and about my 80 VHS tapes .. 😄

When I look at the differences in the graphs that you presented extremely well I recall doing the same sort of thing with a curve when I enable DSP after doing acoustical measurements on my AV processor. When I compare the graph the new DSP curve is smoother and when I enable DSP there is a dramatic improvement in tonality and I'm wondering if just changing the curve created this change and sound or other DSP things that are going on in the background. I do hate the fact that DSP is difficult to work with because you have to re-download curves every time you make a manual change to the curve. So it's very hard to change things on the fly. I miss Tone controls but when I enable treble and bass settings it impacts the sound quality so I don't use it.

If only others who do ab testing could learn from how you do things?

How often does wonder woman come out and play with you?

If you don't have a large collection of phonograph records I don't see the point of buying an expensive turntable new or used. Same for a CD player. If you are going to buy reissued of vinyl records that have been digitally processed why not buy the far less expensive CD? If you don't have a library of either you'd do far better to stream your music. Just my opinion.

Why is anything expensive 🙄

Problem..stop grouping it all as cables is wrong..next remove anything with lighting ballasts. Depending on length..there should be no difference..

you should by vintage everything, especially electronics from Europe. The last thing the planet needs is more garbage.