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Owen wrote: Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:18 pm OK

I have this narrowed down to a Rega Brio and a Marantz PM6007.

Buying local and and I can get either (slightly used) for about the same price.

Again driving Klipsch Forte IIs, mainly listen to records (Project Debut with Grado Blue), and the occasional CD in my living room. Mainly listen to bombastic Rock & Metal, Soul, and Spacey Jazz

Kinda leaning towards the Marantz just seems to have more features and things (that maybe I wont use?)

Just don't go too crazy with the wattage, we have a set of Forte III's at work right now and it takes next to nothing to get them going.

Owen wrote: Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:18 pm OK

I have this narrowed down to a Rega Brio and a Marantz PM6007.

Buying local and and I can get either (slightly used) for about the same price.

Again driving Klipsch Forte IIs, mainly listen to records (Project Debut with Grado Blue), and the occasional CD in my living room. Mainly listen to bombastic Rock & Metal, Soul, and Spacey Jazz

Kinda leaning towards the Marantz just seems to have more features and things (that maybe I wont use?)

Try going to Saturday Audio exchange some time. You might like it, they are nice.

Can't recall if I posted to the old thread, so this is either a summary or an update - I think I have reached a lasting setup (i.e. my hearing will degrade from here on so upgrades are pointless). Pro-ject P1.2 with acrylic platter
Marantz 2285B receiver (1979, made in Japan, recapped myself)
Airport Express for AirPlay
Mac Mini with 2TB drive, lossless rips of large CD collection plus Bandcamp digital purchases, in these days of ridiculous shipping costs, feeding
Vincent DAC-1 (32 bit 96kHz optical, Burr-Browns, WIMA caps, toroidal transformer etc etc)
Rotel RCD-971 (wonderful Burr-Brown DACs)
Nakamichi BX-150 I got cheap but had to change the belts, ugh
Speakers are VAF, an Australian hifi brand sold as self-assembly, with minimal crossovers due to the physical filtering on the drivers. They sound just wonderful: neutral and unobtrusive.
Pretty much flawless, I can access the library over the network or using my phone, iPad etc, the only fly in the ointment is that the old switches in the Marantz periodically cut out one channel and need to be jiggled, drives me insane but they are almost impossible to access and clean, even for someone unafraid of taking it apart.

matttkkkk wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:55 pm Marantz 2285B receiver (1979, made in Japan, recapped myself)

The prices on vintage high-powered receivers (and to a lesser degree, integrated amps) have gone insane lately. Another thing that internet people collect. Very jealous, that looks beautiful. I wish I had it in me to recap something on a printed circuit board.

I actually bought every piece of this second hand apart from the speakers (in 1997) - few people cared for old solid state gear in Australia, I bought the 2285B from the local electronics repair shop for $150 (AUD) around 2005 in Sydney. Suffice to say it was worth all the work to get it into running order.

Maybe this should be in the ebay thread, but fukkit.

For the audiophile/record collector who has everything -

VPI Record Cleaning Machine Used - $400

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisb0 ... turntables

If i did not already have one of these things, I would be all over it.

I bought a working, clean Kenwood receiver c.1979 (my birth year) on Craigslist for probably more than it's strictly worth, but I suspect it'll give me a few nice years of nostalgia before it becomes a decoration/never-to-be-done-DIY-project. It at least is one of the ones where the ticking time bomb is the rotary switch speaker selector/power switch. I likely will just leave it on one speaker setting and power on/off with a surge protector. Better than other receivers from the same era that used early chip-based output amps that can't be replaced. This one appears to be discrete output from a cursory look over the service manual. If the tuner section fails, that's not repairable, but I can always get WPRB online.

Probably gotta do a recap soon.

I'd still like to get an early solid-state Fisher or H.H. Scott so I can have a 60s room and a 70s room. I can furnish early-70s contrast I guess with a no-name unit I got for $30 a while back in the mean time. Probably practice my re-capping on that, since new it sold for like half the price of similar-level Kenwoods.

This is all getting a little audiokarma.com, isn't it? These gray hairs don't lie.

motorbike guy wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:59 pm Maybe this should be in the ebay thread, but fukkit.

For the audiophile/record collector who has everything -

VPI Record Cleaning Machine Used - $400

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisb0 ... turntables

If i did not already have one of these things, I would be all over it.

Speaking of Audiogon (sort of), are there online sellers (not marketplaces) of used audio gear that people here favor?

In the camera world, there are KEH, MBP, and probably some others-- Are there good ones for home audio?
Thanks.

lotharsandwich wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:21 pm

motorbike guy wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:59 pm Maybe this should be in the ebay thread, but fukkit.

For the audiophile/record collector who has everything -

VPI Record Cleaning Machine Used - $400

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisb0 ... turntables

If i did not already have one of these things, I would be all over it.

Speaking of Audiogon (sort of), are there online sellers (not marketplaces) of used audio gear that people here favor?

In the camera world, there are KEH, MBP, and probably some others-- Are there good ones for home audio?
Thanks.

Audiogon is pretty full of dealers and ridiculous high end crap, and cables out the wazoo, but good stuff shows up once in a while. Also check the classifieds at Steve Hoffman Forum (https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/) and if you favor British stuff like I do, you can always check pink fish audio classifieds at https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/

My favorite is https://www.usaudiomart.com/. and good old ebay.

a great tool for finding something worldwide is hifishark.com. it will show you every piece for sale all over the world, and the prices of stuff that has sold, so you can get an idea how much that thing you are looking for might be worth.

HTH

Picked up a nice pair of Wharfedale “achromatic” speakers. 3 way, early 70s.