HIFI How old is yours?

[J8 SVG]

Boston Acoustic M25 speakers
Basic Denon Amp
Rega RP1 Turntable with (newly added) Performance pack

All under 8 months old, performance pack added a much much better cartridge (Bias 2) along with some other bits and it all sounds amazing to my ears. Have got a long way to go until I can get the very nice tube amps that I so crave but I bought speakers that should be good enough to last a few years and the turntable is upgradable even further

[caprirob]

Most of my stuff is 25-30 years old.

Rotel pre & power amp
Technics turntable
Technics graphic equaliser
Denon cassette deck
Mordant short floorstanders - all of these are circa mid-late 80's

I think my Sony CD player is late 90's

I keep meaning to upgrade the turntable as it's quite basic and I keep getting drawn to those Technics pre/power amps which have the analogue needle level meters on the front - so cool but big bucks.

[Matt..]

I was randomly looking at Cyrus amps on eBay earlier. My old 7 that I bought used ~7yrs ago still seems to be selling for what I paid for it all those years ago! Not sure when they came out, but I'd assume it's at least 10yrs old. I could almost class it as an investment

[Turn7]

Apple TV and Tivo/TV all hooked up through my NAD 320BEE into a pair of B&W speakers....see no reason to change at all tbh.

[StuntmanMike]

Arcam Delta 290 amp, bought new in 95.
Marantz CD 52 SE bought new in 95.
Mission 773i speakers, bought new in 2003.
Cambridge Audio Dacmagic 2, bought secondhand.
Still going strong, the missions are the third pair of speakers and what really let the system down, the Arcam gets crackly on the mode switch sometimes, all in all, still a very nice sounding system.

P.S , My Wife hates it.

[Adrian W]

my modern CD player and speakers all depend on this old amp

http://www.alchemisthifi.info/ranges/forseti/alche...

[T1berious]

StuntmanMike said:

Arcam Delta 290 amp, bought new in 95.
Marantz CD 52 SE bought new in 95.
Mission 773i speakers, bought new in 2003.
Cambridge Audio Dacmagic 2, bought secondhand.
Still going strong, the missions are the third pair of speakers and what really let the system down, the Arcam gets crackly on the mode switch sometimes, all in all, still a very nice sounding system.

P.S , My Wife hates it.

All wives hate kit. Period. Even if its successfully hidden....

[TonyRPH]

caprirob said:

Most of my stuff is 25-30 years old.

Rotel pre & power amp
Technics turntable
Technics graphic equaliser
Denon cassette deck
Mordant short floorstanders - all of these are circa mid-late 80's

I think my Sony CD player is late 90's

I keep meaning to upgrade the turntable as it's quite basic and I keep getting drawn to those Technics pre/power amps which have the analogue needle level meters on the front - so cool but big bucks.

Don't waste your money on the Technics Kit, unless you go for the super high end SE-A1/3/5 & SE-A2000/3000/7000 power amps and associated preamp (and be prepared to take a 2nd mortgage for one of those!).

The 'lower' end stuff SE-A909/1000/1010 (which has been selling for hideous money on Ebay recently) is no better (and probably worse) than your Rotel kit, and the output IC that these use (the very heart of the power amp) has been obsolete for years - so blow that and your amp is an expensive doorstop.

Your Rotel kits uses easily replaceable transistors.

Edited by TonyRPH on Tuesday 27th January 19:07

[Crackie]

T1berious said:

All wives hate kit. Period. Even if its successfully hidden....

My wife doesn't seem to mind; our living room(s) has been dominated by Hi-Fi and AV kit for the past 25 years.

Caprirob's hankering after Technics power amps with meters made me smile; I've considered them in the past, even though they sound average at best.

25-30 year old Rotel kit is likely to be 800 series; the power amps were great. The later 900 series power amps seem to be growing in reputation and often fetch the same or more on E-bay than when they were new. The user reviews below rate them very highly; I use six 900 series power amps to run my active speakers and Red997, earlier in the thread, uses six Rotels to power his active Linn Isobariks.

http://www.audioreview.com/cat/amplification/ampli...

http://www.audioreview.com/cat/amplification/ampli...

http://www.audioreview.com/cat/amplification/ampli...

Edited by Crackie on Sunday 1st February 00:16

[Mouse1903]

Pioneer SA-8800 Amp from July 1980*
Marantz CD-63 from 1982*
Sony APM-22ES MkII Speakers (year unknown but suspect 87-89)*
Project Debut SB Turntable with uprated Ortofon cartridge from June 2005
Apple iPod Classic 80Gb from 2007

• purchased in May 2013 off eBay

[red997]

T1berious said:

All wives hate kit. Period. Even if its successfully hidden....

not necessarily...

I mentioned about changing my Isobariks the other weekend - got a resounding 'no' from the Mrs - said she like them too much and they sound great, and looked good in the lounge !
I am blessed.....

[Crackie]

red997 said:

T1berious said:

All wives hate kit. Period. Even if its successfully hidden....

not necessarily...

I mentioned about changing my Isobariks the other weekend - got a resounding 'no' from the Mrs - said she like them too much and they sound great, and looked good in the lounge !
I am blessed.....

I'm similarly blessed

crackie said:

My wife doesn't seem to mind; our living room(s) has been dominated by Hi-Fi and AV kit for the past 25 years.

The two exceptions to all wives hate kit rule have something in common. They're both multi way active systems and both use six Rotel power amps. Its the way forward

Edited by Crackie on Wednesday 28th January 13:31

[Esseesse]

T1berious said:

StuntmanMike said:

Arcam Delta 290 amp, bought new in 95.
Marantz CD 52 SE bought new in 95.
Mission 773i speakers, bought new in 2003.
Cambridge Audio Dacmagic 2, bought secondhand.
Still going strong, the missions are the third pair of speakers and what really let the system down, the Arcam gets crackly on the mode switch sometimes, all in all, still a very nice sounding system.

P.S , My Wife hates it.

All wives hate kit. Period. Even if its successfully hidden....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_facto...

[chrispmartha]

I had this early B&O CD BeoSystem for years (its still working!)



Replaced it last year with this and it is superb!

[George7]

The speakers on my PC setup are from the 70s, unsure of the exact year. They're Celestion UL6s and they still sound great! What they're connected to (Denon DM39 mini system) is pretty much brand new though. They do dwarf my screen a bit, which is 27" so not exactly small. Great speakers though.

[anonymous-user]

Ah yes, Rotel. I've got a few of those



with these plugged in at one end





and a pair of these plugged in the other end



Most of it bought on ebay over the last ten years for not a lot, the turntable used to be a Planar 3 but there's only the arm and motor left from it now.