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Baikal Bimmer

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Title says it all, what equipment do you have, instruments, amplifiers, turntables, speakers, tape machines, sound boards, headphones, stereos.
Also, what vinyl do you guys have, or do you prefer digital

I will start:
Two Grundig Mandello radiograms, one tube and one solid state, excellent deep sound.
Picture is not mine, mine is taken apart for repair:)
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Guitars-
3 Les Pauls, 1 fender/Warmoth Telecaster, Grestch 6120 Chet Atkinson hollow body, 1 Mitchell acoustic, and one fender acoustic

Guitar amp- I am current running a fender blues junior, one of the best amps I have ever played, I was blown away by this thing!

For recording I have been using a Fostex R8

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Works well, relatively cheap to record as it uses 1/4in tape


Also using a carvin fx244 mixer


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as far as vinyl goes I have too many to list! Right now Rolling Stones tattoo you gets the most plays!

Let’s hear from you guys now
 
I have a McIntosh hi-fi setup, from top to bottom:

MI-3 tube oscilliscope, shows stereo separation and FM signal strength (1964)
MQ-101 equalizer which matches speakers (1970)
MX-110 tube tuner/preamp (1964)
2 MC-30 tube mono block power amps (1957)
MC-2505 power amp - unused but looks cool (1967)
ML-1C 4-way speakers on original accessory stands - they weigh 70 lbs a piece (1970)
I had every piece re-capped etc recently by a Mc guru.

All my records and Phillips 312 turnatable from high school got confiscated by a landlord in lieu of unpaid rent circa 1983 (he couldn't take a joke) so I run a BluMe hifi DAC bluetooth receiver into the AUX of the preamp. I don't have the energy/interest to get back into vinyl.

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A 1961 Gibson Country Western acoustic guitar with nice patina currently tuned all strings to D so I can learn Suite: Judy Blue Eyes:

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A 1969 Les Paul Custom:

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A 1983 Rivera designed Fender Super Champ I bought new in New Orleans, played one gig, had too much to drink, thought it got stolen, was returned to me 35 years later by a fraternity brother who found it in a closet. You never know. Time capsule:

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Also have a mexican Fender Strat from the 90's I bought for 100 bucks, currently tuned to open G to play Keith Richards riffs, covered in bumper stickers, sounds great but no pic :D

I grew up outiside NYC in the 70's and would buy ridiculous vintage guitars on 48th street for nothin' but sold them all for peanuts back in the day. Similar pattern for cars I've owned as well. :rolleyes:
 
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Stevehose said:
I have a McIntosh hi-fi setup, from top to bottom:

MI-3 tube oscilliscope, shows stereo separation and FM signal strength (1964)
MQ-101 equalizer which matches speakers (1970)
MX-110 tube tuner/preamp (1964)
2 MC-30 tube mono block power amps (1957)
MC-2505 power amp - unused but looks cool (1967)
ML-1C 4-way speakers on original accessory stands - they weigh 70 lbs a piece (1970)
I had every piece re-capped etc recently by a Mc guru.

All my records and Phillips 312 turnatable from high school got confiscated by a landlord in lieu of unpaid rent circa 1983 (he couldn't take a joke) so I run a BluMe hifi DAC bluetooth receiver into the AUX of the preamp. I don't have the energy/interest to get back into vinyl.

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A 1961 Gibson Country Western acoustic guitar with nice patina currently tuned all strings to D so I can learn Suite: Judy Blue Eyes:

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A 1969 Les Paul Custom:

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A 1983 Rivera designed Fender Super Champ I bought new in New Orleans, played one gig, had too much to drink, thought it got stolen, was returned to me 35 years later by a fraternity brother who found it in a closet. You never know. Time capsule:

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Also have a mexican Fender Strat from the 90's I bought for 100 bucks, currently tuned to open G to play Keith Richards riffs, covered in bumper stickers, sounds great but no pic :D

I grew up outiside NYC in the 70's and would buy ridiculous vintage guitars on 48th street for nothin' but sold them all for peanuts back in the day. Similar pattern for cars I've owned as well. :rolleyes:
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the mcintosh setup is fabulous,
have you considered using better cables to feed the speakers ? Are they different from LH to RH ?
 
focused in Chet B., and in Tom W., vynil and CD also

this…is my sansuis, receiver 666, and amplifier 505A, and yamaha px3 turntable, bio tracker,


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yamaha ns-20 open back styrofoam bass, equipped with saba greencones for mid, and yamaha supertweeters, fully recapped and new suspension and cables, ns230 also renewed working together

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and my last welcome favourite…the electrostatic thing

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feeding them with reader and DAC from North Star

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so good that I am selling my grado’s gs1000 bought new in 2008 in Boston
 
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the mcintosh setup is fabulous,
have you considered using better cables to feed the speakers ? Are they different from LH to RH ?
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Thanks, I don't think better cables would make a difference, it's not at audiophile level, more of a warm sound, especially after the tubes warm up for an hour or so. Location is temporary. Maybe better wire when I decide final placement. The speakers are the same LH/RH.
 
Stevehose said:
Thanks, I don't think better cables would make a difference, it's not at audiophile level, more of a warm sound, especially after the tubes warm up for an hour or so. Location is temporary. Maybe better wire when I decide final placement. The speakers are the same LH/RH.
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i had a "normal" set of cables, nothing special, sound ok
i bought expensive cables, sound ok, no improvement
a friend expert checked and made some calculations, made a proposal of cables, bought them, they were not expensive as the previous ones, sound was extraordinary a real difference
 
My televisions have sound bars with subs. Just your run of the mill $300 costco HDMI setups.

Music… judge all you want. My entire family and I listen to a ton of music. I’ve been slowly ditching all my stereo equipment over the past 10 years in favor of simplicity and accessibility. The Amazon unit in my living room is the tall model. I don’t wear a tin foil hat either because my life isn’t that interesting.
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Instruments:
  • Roland touch sensitive digital piano
  • Yamaha touch sensitive digital piano
  • 2x Ukuleles
  • 1 Rental Viola
  • 1 Kazoo
 
Moscode 300 hybrid tube amp (bass frequencies)
Hafler DH 220 with Marchand boards (lightning blew the Hafler boards) with additional cap. bank, mid/high frequencies
Hafler DH 120 (dual channel subwoofer)
DBX crossover
VMPS sub
VMPS Tower 2 speakers (modified for bass only)
Homemade Midrange/Tweeter/Midrange Speakers (Joe D'Appolito design)
Homemade electrostatic towers
Heathkit pre-amp
 
If we a going to show vintage amps and musical instruments, do you want to see ; 1946 Gibson L7N, 1969 Gibson Crest gold, 1960 ES 330TDN, 1961 Gibson Byrdland N, 1955 National Glenwood gold,Fender,Standel,& Ampeg amps? 1955 Fender & 1967 Gibson basses? And don't ask about the PRS and more modern stuff....

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Baikal Bimmer said:
What ampeg amps do you have?
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I had the B-18 that I played my '55 Fender P-Bass through with my band back in college in the late '60's. Now I only have a solid-state Standel for my Gibson EB-2 bass. I sold the Fender bass a couple of years ago to a fellow in London who sold his E30 M3 to pay for it!!
 
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