My objective for this system was high quality sound in my comfortable environment without breaking the bank. Secondly, the turning on & off of the system had to be wife-friendly. Thirdly, the components were to be inexpensive enough where I wouldn't faint :-) if a component was broken by the children (unlike my reference system)!
Most of the components are old but they are very good sounding despite their age.
Any more money spent would be a waste as the room acoustics & speaker placement do not allow any further extraction of music subtlties.
Thinking seriously of modifying the 502A if I can do it for a reasonable cost.
2 discrete laser pick-up DVD player. 1st generation product but still considered by many to be an excellent transport. OK sound from analog outputs
Onkyo ND-S1
iPod dock for 5th gen 160GB iPod. Has only digital output (as it's output was meant to plug into an Onkyo A/V receiver). Superb sonics for fraction of the cost. Compact size, good looking & decent remote.
Monarchy Audio DIP 24/96
24/96 jitter reduction model. Does *NOT* re-sample incoming digital data. Can accept digital data upto 24 bits & upto 96KHz. Improves bass definition, decongests sound-stage/better voice, instrument definition & provides smooth highs
1st introduced in 1979. Slim-line FM/AM tuner with 4 gangs and 3 filters, an Active Servo Lock circuit, two FM muting thresholds plus a defeat position, and a recording level check switch. Really cool looking tuning mechanizm: 2 green arrow LEDs beside the red station LED. The green LEDs guide the user in which direction to tune & disappear when center tuned.
Yamaha CA-2010
1977 vintage integrated amplifier from Yamaha. Found this beautiful looking, well-cared for piece on Ebay. 120W/ch in class-AB & 30W/ch in pure class-A. Sounds divine with the Tannoy DMT10s. :-)
Tannoy System 10DMT Mk II
System 10 DMT Mk II Dual concentric monitors. Impact resistant gray painted front baffle & ribbed edges. Excellent sonics despite being a studio monitor - one of the best! Drivers seem to have a 90 degree vertical & horizontal dispersion hence it matters little where you sit in the room.
Lovan Jazz 1800
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Mil Spec 16 AWG silver-coated copper multi-strand
Mil Spec multi-stranded silver-coated copper wire with Tefzel insulation. Tefzel is very close to Teflon w.r.t. dielectric loss. Sonically very good sounding wire for the little money paid.
I have a cr420 receiver (see my second A/V system posting). Picked it up in ebay for $60, cleaned it up, and love it. I had hopes when I bought it having heard these back in teh day, but I've gotten way more mileage than I really expected out of it these days.
The phono section is awesome. Have you tried yours?
A few more watts than what I have wouldn't hurt so I often look for these old yamaha amps. If I changed, I would either go for a more powerful model like yours or test the mdoern tube integrated waters perhaps, but then I get the hassle of tubes + plus need a separate phono section, etc.
