Smoking Joe
13-06-2018, 22:28
Hi All,
I started off into Hifi and home cinema in the 1990s and upgraded to a stage where I was happy with and then I stopped as I felt that it suited me perfectly.
Then I moved house and a baby girl came along so more or less everything got moth balled. Then last year another house move and now that my daughter is old enough to know not to poke holes in speakers or put toast in CD players, I took everything back out and dusted it off. Especially since I had the okay to set up the sitting room as I liked it! :-)
So I lifted the floors and ran my Cable Talk 2.1 cable that I bought in the '90s under the floor and into wall sockets (on condition that I buy new expensive new floor....)
And to treat myself being in a position to have floor standers I bought new front speakers. :-) I also trimmed down my system drastically as a lot of my gear wasn't getting used anymore and also the new house/ room came with the condition of a new TV/ HiFi stand which has limited space...
My system was in the 1990s...
Audiolab 8000A amp
Yamaha DSP-E800 surround sound processor
Marantz CD67 SE
Aiwa tape deck (can't remember the model off the top of my head)
Pioneer VHS recorder (can't remember the model off the top of my head)
Philips DVD player (can't remember the model off the top of my head)
Mordaunt Short MS10i Classics as fronts (bi-wired
)
Mordaunt Short MS10i as rears
Wharfedale Valdus centre speaker
And a ton of cable and interconnects.
So now in my new house, in my newly done up room what has changed?
Well not a lot!
The telly is now a 48 inch rather then a 21inch / 32 inch... :-)
Audiolab 8000A amp recapped and upgraded to Stage 2, and all RCA connectors replaced by Redhill Audio
Yamaha DSP-E800 surround sound processor
Marantz CD67 SE (I recently bought a 1998 Arcam Alpha 9 CD player that I am in the process of refurbishing)
(Brand new) Dali Zensor 5 as the fronts
Mordaunt Short MS10i Classics as rears
Wharfedale Valdus centre speaker
Home Theatre PC with BluRay/ DVD drive/ media centre.
And I picked up a 1987 Marantz ST-35L tuner....just because it was cheap and I never had a tuner before, and even though I can stream any radio station from the web with the home theatre PC.....I just couldn't resist the price.. ;-)
And the same cable and interconnects that I bought 20 years ago. :-)
Anyway, that was a long winded hello! ;-)
I started off into Hifi and home cinema in the 1990s and upgraded to a stage where I was happy with and then I stopped as I felt that it suited me perfectly.
Then I moved house and a baby girl came along so more or less everything got moth balled. Then last year another house move and now that my daughter is old enough to know not to poke holes in speakers or put toast in CD players, I took everything back out and dusted it off. Especially since I had the okay to set up the sitting room as I liked it! :-)
So I lifted the floors and ran my Cable Talk 2.1 cable that I bought in the '90s under the floor and into wall sockets (on condition that I buy new expensive new floor....)
And to treat myself being in a position to have floor standers I bought new front speakers. :-) I also trimmed down my system drastically as a lot of my gear wasn't getting used anymore and also the new house/ room came with the condition of a new TV/ HiFi stand which has limited space...
My system was in the 1990s...
Audiolab 8000A amp
Yamaha DSP-E800 surround sound processor
Marantz CD67 SE
Aiwa tape deck (can't remember the model off the top of my head)
Pioneer VHS recorder (can't remember the model off the top of my head)
Philips DVD player (can't remember the model off the top of my head)
Mordaunt Short MS10i Classics as fronts (bi-wired
)
Mordaunt Short MS10i as rears
Wharfedale Valdus centre speaker
And a ton of cable and interconnects.
So now in my new house, in my newly done up room what has changed?
Well not a lot!
The telly is now a 48 inch rather then a 21inch / 32 inch... :-)
Audiolab 8000A amp recapped and upgraded to Stage 2, and all RCA connectors replaced by Redhill Audio
Yamaha DSP-E800 surround sound processor
Marantz CD67 SE (I recently bought a 1998 Arcam Alpha 9 CD player that I am in the process of refurbishing)
(Brand new) Dali Zensor 5 as the fronts
Mordaunt Short MS10i Classics as rears
Wharfedale Valdus centre speaker
Home Theatre PC with BluRay/ DVD drive/ media centre.
And I picked up a 1987 Marantz ST-35L tuner....just because it was cheap and I never had a tuner before, and even though I can stream any radio station from the web with the home theatre PC.....I just couldn't resist the price.. ;-)
And the same cable and interconnects that I bought 20 years ago. :-)
Anyway, that was a long winded hello! ;-)