SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For you audiophiles

[bombadillo]

I just scored a like new pioneer sx-737 for $5.00 at a yard sale!  She decided for 25 bucks, she'd give me a JVC rx-403 receiver, a sony tc-w370 dual casette deck player, and a set of yamaha NS-a 635A speakers!!!  This was like the score of the year for me because the pioneer receiver was produced from around 1974-76' and you just can't find em like this anymore.  I wiped out all the components, took all the knobs off and cleaned the thing so it looks new, ran some behold on it for the wood and plugged her in.  My god these new things just aren't made like used to be.  Anyway, just stoked and thought I would share.  I'm gonna post up a couple of pics when I get around to it.   

[theUBS]

As I told jserio, I don't have much in the way of audio equipment anymore.  Unloaded it all to get my first motorcycle.  Granted, my stuff was a little newer than that you just purchased, but I sold my JVC home theater amplifier, my 300 disc CD changer, and my Cerwin Vega MX-400s.  I still get a little misty when I consider letting those Vegas go!  Would love to get some more stuff someday!  Congrats to you on your find!  Enjoy! 

...reminds me of my Dad's friend.  Old lady was selling her deceased husband's old acoustic guitar.  She had it marked at $10.  He talked her down to $5.  It was a mint condition MARTIN! 

[bombadillo]

I love the finds like those.  My gramps has a serial on his left handed ovation from late 60's early 70's that says 00000000001.  He sent it off to ovation to have it worked on and landed on the CEO's desk.  When my grandpa had called in to ask why the guitar is taking so long, he was transferred to him and they asked to put it in their private collection.  He declined and asked for his guitar back and promptly stored and sealed it.  They offered anything in their current lineup no matter the price in direct trade for the guitar.

[ohgood]

I just scored a like new pioneer sx-737 for $5.00 at a yard sale!  She decided for 25 bucks, she'd give me a JVC rx-403 receiver, a sony tc-w370 dual casette deck player, and a set of yamaha NS-a 635A speakers!!!  This was like the score of the year for me because the pioneer receiver was produced from around 1974-76' and you just can't find em like this anymore.  I wiped out all the components, took all the knobs off and cleaned the thing so it looks new, ran some behold on it for the wood and plugged her in.  My god these new things just aren't made like used to be.  Anyway, just stoked and thought I would share.  I'm gonna post up a couple of pics when I get around to it.   

i remember my folks' pioneer reciever, with the non-digital tuner. smooth as silk, and the little meter to show signal strength.

it rocked.

[bombadillo]

Thats exactly the one.  I would really like a nice marantz unit like a 2285 or something of that nature, but they're really expensive these days.

Check out www.classicaudio.com for some of the toys.

[theUBS]

I love the finds like those.  My gramps has a serial on his left handed ovation from late 60's early 70's that says 00000000001.  He sent it off to ovation to have it worked on and landed on the CEO's desk.  When my grandpa had called in to ask why the guitar is taking so long, he was transferred to him and they asked to put it in their private collection.  He declined and asked for his guitar back and promptly stored and sealed it.  They offered anything in their current lineup no matter the price in direct trade for the guitar.

Yeah, I wouldn't give that up either!  Gramps is a smart man! 

[Kasumi]

I love the finds like those.  My gramps has a serial on his left handed ovation from late 60's early 70's that says 00000000001.  He sent it off to ovation to have it worked on and landed on the CEO's desk.  When my grandpa had called in to ask why the guitar is taking so long, he was transferred to him and they asked to put it in their private collection.  He declined and asked for his guitar back and promptly stored and sealed it.  They offered anything in their current lineup no matter the price in direct trade for the guitar.

Yeah, I wouldn't give that up either!  Gramps is a smart man! 

They shoulda said that they would provide a display case to keep it safe somewhere at his residance.

[jdanna]

nice find.

i had an old SX-1080, i LOVED it. one channel went bad, and i took it apart trying to fix it and messed it up worse :/

i still have an old scottkit tube amp that works amazing though

[bombadillo]

I love tubes, but they're too finicky anymore to try and deal with.  Thats why I like first gen solid state like the old pioneer, marantz, nakamichi, etc...  I like them because they were made 25 years ago and are still going strong with a following behind them.

[jdanna]

I love tubes, but they're too finicky anymore to try and deal with.  Thats why I like first gen solid state like the old pioneer, marantz, nakamichi, etc...  I like them because they were made 25 years ago and are still going strong with a following behind them.

those old pioneers sound fantastic. i really wish i didnt f%$k mine up. i ended up tossing it in the last move because i had lost some of the pieces
thing i love about tubes, is the smell. all that old dust that burns off when they heat up, a tube amp has the nicest smell on earth.

[The Buddha]

Sheesh more vintage pioneer nuts ...

There is one dude in my neighborhood this way ...

OK so y'all wanna keel over and die ... this is what I have wheeled and dealed myself into and out of the last few months.

Electrovoice SP12B speakers, 3 ESS heil AMT 1b's, 1 functional and 2 only missing the woofers and radiators (AKA heils intact), a pioneer SX450 - yea who cares, except this one is mint, all knobs, switches, doohickeys, plugs and buttons intact), a realistic sa1000 amp, a technics SA400 amp, a marantz 2200 that I traded along wiht HPM40's to aforementioned pioneer nut for a yamaha DSP 3090, infinity RS-b's that I sold, technics sa404 traded for altec lansings with mantaray horns in cherry shape, a STA2080 realistic amp I traded for realistic electrostatic 2 speakers in great shape. I also modded some old fisher speakers with new drivers and ribbons ...
Tons of cool stuff. Anyway I sold/traded a bunch as well, super cool onkyo speakers that looked like infinity copies, a pair of RTR series 3 model 4's I swapped an old HK 530 amp etc etc ...

Now anyone know of a way to get a technics su-g91 remote wihtout forking over 90 bucks @ remotes.com ?
I scored a sony one for cheap.

Cool.
Buddha.

[yamahonkawazuki]

I just scored a like new pioneer sx-737 for $5.00 at a yard sale!  She decided for 25 bucks, she'd give me a JVC rx-403 receiver, a sony tc-w370 dual casette deck player, and a set of yamaha NS-a 635A speakers!!!  This was like the score of the year for me because the pioneer receiver was produced from around 1974-76' and you just can't find em like this anymore.  I wiped out all the components, took all the knobs off and cleaned the thing so it looks new, ran some behold on it for the wood and plugged her in.  My god these new things just aren't made like used to be.  Anyway, just stoked and thought I would share.  I'm gonna post up a couple of pics when I get around to it.   

Damn you im jealous. ive got one of htese. with VINTAGE speakers. hte sound, is awesome, IMHO of course

[The Buddha]

I have one thing I am pretty sure none of the vintage audio nuts will agree but I dont care ...

New amps can sound good or better than old solid state amps ... just that they were a lot more $$$ ... the 2200 marantz I had and swapped for the dsp 3090 yamaha, really they were close in clarity with the edge going to the surprise here - yammie because I have horn loaded EV fronts. Maybe with ribbons the marantz may have been better ... dunno, but in my living room, horns trounce ribbons and I am a ribbon nut. The marantz on a good day is 100 bucks ... the yammie is 300. Cos it was 2500 bones in 98-99. Yea the marantz looks better, but come on, no remote = worthless if you ever want to get laid.

Old speakers vs new speakers, no comparison at any $. The good ones of the past aren't even being made, or the companies even around any more. RTR's (so vastly underrated I cant even believe they are @ the top of my list), realistic, acoustic research, advent, altecs, ess etc etc. Old klipsch, polk, infinity all sound better. You want a good speaker you have to build it yourself nowadays.

BTW anyone wanting a great amp, google "chip amp" or "T amp" or lm3886 amp or lm3875 amp or TA2020 amp. Some of em (all) are even available with tube buffers to make em sound just like a tube amp. BTW there is one clown around here who's promising to find a macintosh he has hidden away somewhere ...

Cool.
Buddha

[The Buddha]

Muhahahaha Pioneer SX-790 with a missing main fuse, yes missing ... not blown ... free. Best part, didn't even have to drive out of my way to get it.
Cool.
Buddha.