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Racer92 9/12/2013 12:55pm
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I have a pair of Klipsch Tangent 40s in the attic wrapped. Bought them in Europe 25 years ago. Has 2 eight inch subs in the...
I have a pair of Klipsch Tangent 40s in the attic wrapped. Bought them in Europe 25 years ago.

Has 2 eight inch subs in the front and a twelve inch sub in the rear. Incredible sound....

Thats a lot of quality right there.
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Racer92 9/12/2013 1:01pm
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indy_maico wrote:
I got a bad case of rig envy! I know you have a reel-to-reel off to the side somewhere, too.

Love those VU meters!
Actually that is my SPEC rack with HPM-150 speakers, circa 1979

The 1972 thru 1977 wood cabinette system has its own room with listening chair. Cool

This one has the RT-1020L & RT-1020H decks, 7.5 and 15 ips and of course, the SX-1250 drives all the various sources in that system; Tuner/Turntable/Cassettes/Reel-to-Reels. Cant wait to put the ole girl back into her spot and get the double-stack of HPM-100s pumpin'

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huck 9/12/2013 1:02pm
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I bet Racer92's VCR clock is blinking..."12:00"
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Racer92 9/12/2013 1:08pm
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huck wrote:
I bet Racer92's VCR clock is blinking..."12:00"
At least I still have a VCR ! Tongue

Besides, thats why I have a smart wife, shes in charge of new fangled gadets. Wink

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Racer92 9/12/2013 1:10pm
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indy_maico wrote:
Get those suckers out and rock the house!
For sure! Heat wreaks havoc on foam surrounds !
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huck 9/12/2013 1:42pm
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huck wrote:
I bet Racer92's VCR clock is blinking..."12:00"
Racer92 wrote:
At least I still have a VCR ! Tongue

Besides, thats why I have a smart wife, shes in charge of new fangled gadets. Wink
You mean a "young" wife. Wink LOL Just kidding, old buddy!
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Racer92 9/12/2013 1:50pm
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You mean a "young" wife. Wink LOL Just kidding, old buddy!
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MR. X 9/12/2013 5:10pm
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You guys have some nice stuff , I thought of this scene when i started reading.

https://youtu.be/A6DRZlytJpQ
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dean122 9/12/2013 10:00pm
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Awesome set up Racer. A true audiophile.

I'm running a much older Onkyo reciever through a 5 speaker/sub Klipsch surround. Sounds absolutely incredble today as it did 15 yrs ago. I keep it dusted and will probably need to have the Onkyo looked at soon to replace any needed parts as maintnance. With all the new technology today, I think Klipsch speakers can hold their own. Such a crisp and true sound.
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Mr. G 9/12/2013 11:08pm
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My SX-1250 is finally done and on its way back ! I sent my mint 1977 Pioneer SX-1250 (arguably the best built, best looking and best...
My SX-1250 is finally done and on its way back !

I sent my mint 1977 Pioneer SX-1250 (arguably the best built, best looking and best sounding receiver ever made) to one of the best bench-techs in the country to be totally rebuilt & recapped. It was still working perfectly, but anytime you have capacitors +30 years old its just a matter of time before one of them lets go and fries everything in a puff of smoke. Then you go from a procedural rebuild/recap job, to a triage & find what all you fried/smoked job. Here is all that was done. She sounded sweet before being shipped off, cant wait to put my new FM Soundtrack LP on the turntable and pipe it thru the newly redone 1250 ! "No static at all,,,,,, FM !"

Forget the cheap black plastic crap they sell today, THIS is how you shake the sheetrock in your listening room!












That is really awesome. Maybe you can answer a question I have had for some time. I am of the opinion that old school receivers pick up stations better than the new stuff does. Is this true?
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Racer92 9/13/2013 6:07am
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That is really awesome. Maybe you can answer a question I have had for some time. I am of the opinion that old school receivers pick...
That is really awesome. Maybe you can answer a question I have had for some time. I am of the opinion that old school receivers pick up stations better than the new stuff does. Is this true?
Tuner performance can vary depending on what type they are, and what quality build they have. Some of the old tuners had mechanical setups that had lots of quality in the build, and performed great. Some of those old mechanical ones were crap. Same goes with the new solid state stuff, you can find superb solid state tuning gear, and also some el cheapo stuff as well.

The old style tuners use metal 'gangs' for the variable capacitor. The better quality gang tuners work great when they are clean and in calibration. The lower end ones, not so much.




Later, the quartz tuners used a potentiometer (pot) or even push-buttons to regulate voltage to a varactor, which is a solid state equivalent of a variable capacitor gang.




Newer stuff uses phase-locked technology to demodulate RF signals. As I understand it, they still use varactor diodes as the actual tuning elements, but the voltages which change their capacitance are obtained from DAC converter driven by a microprocessor or phase locked loop (PLL) arrangement. That phase locked stuff is pretty cool as it will grab a carrier wave and hold on to it even when its weak or theres lots of noise.
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Racer92 9/13/2013 6:18am
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Awesome set up Racer. A true audiophile. I'm running a much older Onkyo reciever through a 5 speaker/sub Klipsch surround. Sounds absolutely incredble today as it...
Awesome set up Racer. A true audiophile.

I'm running a much older Onkyo reciever through a 5 speaker/sub Klipsch surround. Sounds absolutely incredble today as it did 15 yrs ago. I keep it dusted and will probably need to have the Onkyo looked at soon to replace any needed parts as maintnance. With all the new technology today, I think Klipsch speakers can hold their own. Such a crisp and true sound.
Onkyo also has some very high end gear out there. What model do you have? Pics?
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Crash82 9/13/2013 8:23am
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Kids! I like quiet time.
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Mr. G 9/13/2013 4:32pm
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I blew my Paradigm sub at my birthday party...totally removed the foam from the cone. I ordered a new one, and found this nice one! Holy...
I blew my Paradigm sub at my birthday party...totally removed the foam from the cone. I ordered a new one, and found this nice one! Holy cow!!!

Paradigm Sub 2 - 230 pounds - needs 240volts!





Here are my speakers... they sound so awesome...
Paradigm reference Tribute
This is basically Van Halens back up PA.
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Roach 9/13/2013 9:21pm
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Just from reading his write up I can tell that the amount of board level knowledge that guy has is unreal. It is very tedious and time consuming work. I wish I had more patience when it came to that stuff. The amount of people with board level knowledge is very small.
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Racer92 9/14/2013 7:16am
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Roach wrote:
Just from reading his write up I can tell that the amount of board level knowledge that guy has is unreal. It is very tedious and...
Just from reading his write up I can tell that the amount of board level knowledge that guy has is unreal. It is very tedious and time consuming work. I wish I had more patience when it came to that stuff. The amount of people with board level knowledge is very small.
Yes it is for sure. Theres very few truly good bench-techs who can do quality work on discrete electronics. (well, there really is no more true discrete electronic gear coming out anymore, its all ICs) And most of the ones who can, are sloppy and/or do hack jobs. In the vintage audio world thats you biggest worry; that some local-yocal TV repair twit got into a unit and screwed stuff up with a homeboy crap repair. You not only have to have the knowledge of the trade, but talented hands to not butcher delicate stuff. All there is nowadays are board-changers. Since everything went to ICs, they just test a board and if it fails, they toss it and plug in new boards.

The dude I use is the best in the nation for this particular stuff, I had to wait 3 years in line to get him to do mine, and it has been at his facility since last November in the queue. Thats how much demand there is for his talent.

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