Are We Still Called Audiophiles?

[dlodoski]

Just glad we were here to enjoy it all is what appear to be a short existence for an era of the best music ever made (my opinion of course). I never thought it would all fade away like that.

It's funny. The better sounding of two Yamaha CR-2020's that I own was just given some much needed TLC.

Yamaha (Natural Sound) receivers caught my attention due to listening to an album while visiting my brother at school. The album was Breakfast in America - which I mistook as a greatest hits.

The first half-speed master I bought was Crime of the Century. For my money though, Supertramp, Live in Paris is the quintessential Supertramp listening album.

But yea, we lived through some interesting times, musically.

[BogDog]

I current have a Yamaha RX-396 "Natural Sound" receiver but not impressed with it. apparently one of their lower models. Seen them on ebay for as low as $50. Am typically a Yamaha fan too...even had a Yamaha car stereo at one time.

Sadly I had to sell my Concept 11.0 when I had to move. I miss that beast. Still have my L36 speakers but had to sell the bigger L100t's too. Living on a budget and just no room for it all anymore.

The Yamaha mainly powers my PC speakers these days (Klipsch monitors and a Sony sub).

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[dlodoski]

That's a nice, compact setup there.

Camp MPV has the theatre room where the big stuff is. But the Yamaha is part of a 'dorm room' system at the home office. The unit in the pic is not the one that just got worked on (it will soon be in its place though). I took it to show the technician/audiophile the finish on the case.

In any case, all the big players went to IC finals in the 90's. They never had the punch of discreet output transistors. I have no idea what's out there now. The theatre system is powered by a monster Harman Kardon receiver that dates back to the early 2000's (processing is done by an Outlaw pre-amp). Speakers were all built by the outfit that did all of our Hard Rock cabinets (Speaker City in Burbank).

[BogDog]

Sweet.

I'm gonna miss these guys. These are from my Craigslist ads. Everything was 1980s era hardware bought at Pacific Stereo. Makes me want to cry.

Concept 11.0

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JBL L100t

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Glad I saved these though!

JBL L36 Decade

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[OBI-wan]

Better than being called a pediophile.

[TK421]

Just glad we were here to enjoy it all is what appear to be a short existence for an era of the best music ever made (my opinion of course). I never thought it would all fade away like that.

It's funny. The better sounding of two Yamaha CR-2020's that I own was just given some much needed TLC.

Yamaha (Natural Sound) receivers caught my attention due to listening to an album while visiting my brother at school. The album was Breakfast in America - which I mistook as a greatest hits.

The first half-speed master I bought was Crime of the Century. For my money though, Supertramp, Live in Paris is the quintessential Supertramp listening album.

But yea, we lived through some interesting times, musically.

My first love as a kid was a Yorx STX490 mini system. I ended up getting a set of KLH towers to replace the speakers that came with it and from there a monster was born. Now it’s my NAD C3050 paired with my PSB Imagine Towers. The towers are no longer in production sadly so it is unlikely I will ever part with them and the sound is just insane. Played Til Tuesday’s “What about Love” to break them in and the nuance captured is mind blowing.

In studio, I am using my dual Avantone Pro CLA-10s in front along with my CLA-100 amplifier and Focusrite Clarett interface and Octapre expansion. I do plan on expanding to a potential Atmos set up as soon as the monitors and amp I want come down in price so I can start mixing and mastering in dolby

This of course isn’t including the closet full of mics I have accumulated over the years LOL! Yeah, we have problems

[Mynock]

I'm not at your guys level, but I had a pretty wicked RCA component system back in the 00's. Bought it from Radio Shack when they were having one of their sales. Initially it was just a central receiver with AM/FM, a five disc CD changer and a 2.1 speaker system but I picked up a tape deck and even a turn table again during sales and for a while had this impressively massive tower of electronics that could play all the things at volumes that would shake the floor and really piss my parents off. Good times.

Yamaha.....is amazing. I've got an old 2.1 system plugged into my gaming PC that I've had for......my God must be at least 20 years now? Still sounds awesome after all this time, clear crisp High/Med/Low and floor shaking base without any distortion.

[TK421]

I'm not at your guys level, but I had a pretty wicked RCA component system back in the 00's. Bought it from Radio Shack when they were having one of their sales. Initially it was just a central receiver with AM/FM, a five disc CD changer and a 2.1 speaker system but I picked up a tape deck and even a turn table again during sales and for a while had this impressively massive tower of electronics that could play all the things at volumes that would shake the floor and really piss my parents off. Good times.

Yamaha.....is amazing. I've got an old 2.1 system plugged into my gaming PC that I've had for......my God must be at least 20 years now? Still sounds awesome after all this time, clear crisp High/Med/Low and floor shaking base without any distortion.

Hey don’t hate. RCA used to be amazing in their time before GE drove em into the ground. They made an amazing dual deck cassette player that was great for the money. Kinda shocked what you bought wasn’t a rebranded Realistic as that was kinda RadioShacks thing in that time. I remember that was where I bought my first cassette player for my car. Detachable face because ya know…reasons lol.

Yamaha and Pioneer are notorious for their longevity. I am still pulling perfectly functional units out of homes because the owners were forced to upgrade in order to continue using their speakers with their newer tv setups. Sadly much of the TVs and set top boxes out there deleted anything analog on their newer sets

[Mynock]

Yamaha and Pioneer are notorious for their longevity.

Right? These speakers have outlasted a total of FOUR generations of PC's lol. Quite possibly the best gaming investment I've ever made! Every time I've got a new gaming system I've just plugged them into the headphone jack on the Mobo and away they went again!

[TK421]

Yamaha and Pioneer are notorious for their longevity.

Right? These speakers have outlasted a total of FOUR generations of PC's lol. Quite possibly the best gaming investment I've ever made! Every time I've got a new gaming system I've just plugged them into the headphone jack on the Mobo and away they went again!

I think quality might have deteriorated for a bit a lil after 2005/2006 for their receivers and passive speakers (right around the time Sony said “fuck this audio crap”) but I still have a pair of Yamaha studio monitors that I got over 10 years ago that I just fired up because I am planning on selling them. No audible distortion, no noise, and sound no different since the day I put them away when I upgraded.