Old school Music Players

Richie63

Had a moment of clarity and reassembled my sound system from years ago sounds fantastic compared to the ipod machines we use in the house now.
Amp and CD player by CYRUS

Speakers AE1


Could do with sorting out some proper stands for the speakers and the amp etc but apart from that Happy Days.

Any of you still do separates anymore?

Gazlar

I had an alba mini hifi, those were the days of technology, same with tvs, I much prefer a 14inch Bush

EH_Rob

Gazlar wrote:

I much prefer a 14inch Bush

might as well close this topic as its not going to get any better than that.

Raymondavalon

I have a Diamond Rio PMP stashed away somewhere, now this is a mid 90's MP3 player, long before Apple and Creative got in on the game. It connected via the LPT [Printer for you new age "techs"] port and could support a 64MB CF Card, all songs were played back at 128KB/s.. old school indeed

Gazlar

EH_Rob wrote:

Gazlar wrote:

I much prefer a 14inch Bush

might as well close this topic as its not going to get any better than that.

I'll take that as a compliment

sheepsteeth

EH_Rob wrote:

Gazlar wrote:

I much prefer a 14inch Bush

its not going to get any better than that.

thats what my mum said about my cake.

Clank

Call that hifi? Should have seen the size of my NADs*!

*3240PE amp running through MS 5.60s** - them things'd project sound when other cones hit their excursion limits, and with the same kind of levels of control you'd associate with a German dominatrix

** ...till some c**t pinched it

YeehaaMcgee

Raymondavalon wrote:

I have a Diamond Rio PMP stashed away somewhere, now this is a mid 90's MP3 player, long before Apple and Creative got in on the game. It connected via the LPT [Printer for you new age "techs"] port and could support a 64MB CF Card, all songs were played back at 128KB/s.. old school indeed

Old school my arris. You're still talking MP3!
If you want real oldschool (long before the oldskool spelling), try minidisc

And er, yeah. Some of us still do separates. Mixture of Pioneer, Lynx, and B&W here. Just found out the other day that my "best mate" recently sold a rather tasty NAD amplifier that had been borrowed.
Yeah - that's why I just don't like people.

Clank

YeehaaMcgee wrote:

If you want real oldschool (long before the oldskool spelling), try minidisc

Still running them in the car!

..seriously.....

Ghostt

It's a good thing this isn't in the road section, they'd have skinned you alive for suggesting CDs were real music!

spongtastic

Look like a Cyrus 1 amp.

Cheap and nasty compared to the Linn system i used to run. A stylus for the Valhalla is around £200 so it's all in the loft. Still use the Monitor Audio speakers though.

YeehaaMcgee

Ghostt wrote:

It's a good thing this isn't in the road section, they'd have skinned you alive for suggesting CDs were real music!

Really? :roll:

Anonymous

If it hasn't got valves in it, it's not Hi-Fi.

Though you have to be bearded, wearing a cardigan and slippers to fully appreciate it.

CDs are newfangled spawns of the devil and just gets you into a lather about jitter.

craker

My dad's just given me his seperates- 80s classics from Rotel and Wharfedale. Had a bit of a nostalgia-fest last night hooking it all up together. Open the CD drawer ... find a disc, any disc. Hear it skip uncontrollably. Etc etc. This stuff was bling 25 years ago and now its in my shed on top of the widescreen CRT TV that has also lost its place to less good but more practical wares.

My dad has replaced this setup with an MP3 player and a dock.

YeehaaMcgee

deadkenny wrote:

If it hasn't got valves in it, it's not Hi-Fi.

Though you have to be bearded, wearing a cardigan and slippers to fully appreciate it.

CDs are newfangled spawns of the devil and just gets you into a lather about jitter.

I do so love it when people claim that Jitter is something that's an issue with the CD format

I can't stand the HiFi nonsense that's spouted about. It's basically homeopathy for blokes, isn't it? All nonsense (not-quite-even-)pseudoscience and placebos.

Ryan Jones

I used to have a Tandy 80's special setup, with a Memorex amplifier hooked up to some old Realistic Mach 2's playing from an old pioneer 6 disk autochanger. Crikey that used to shake the walls a bit

mak3m

deadkenny wrote:

If it hasn't got valves in it, it's not Hi-Fi.

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco

Anonymous

Classic . Don't remember that one.

nicklouse

Clank wrote:

Call that hifi? Should have seen the size of my NADs*!

*3240PE amp running through MS 5.60s** - them things'd project sound when other cones hit their excursion limits, and with the same kind of levels of control you'd associate with a German dominatrix

** ...till some c**t pinched it

call those NADS!

these are NADS

Richie63

nicklouse wrote:

Clank wrote:

Call that hifi? Should have seen the size of my NADs*!

*3240PE amp running through MS 5.60s** - them things'd project sound when other cones hit their excursion limits, and with the same kind of levels of control you'd associate with a German dominatrix

** ...till some c**t pinched it

call those NADS!

these are NADS

They are quite big NADS when seen with the 50" plasma sat on top

tlw1

Richie63 wrote:

nicklouse wrote:

Clank wrote:

Call that hifi? Should have seen the size of my NADs*!

*3240PE amp running through MS 5.60s** - them things'd project sound when other cones hit their excursion limits, and with the same kind of levels of control you'd associate with a German dominatrix

** ...till some c**t pinched it

call those NADS!

these are NADS

They are quite big NADS when seen with the 50" plasma sat on top

Thought it was a sat nav

nicklouse

No that is a Squeezebox touch music streamer.

Clank

I am in admiration of your NADs, Sir. I note they have given you wood.

nicklouse

Clank wrote:

I am in admiration of your NADs, Sir. I note they have given you wood.

now sitting on glass and alloy



the oldies may know what that thing on the top is

Anonymous

nicklouse wrote:

No that is a Squeezebox touch music streamer.

I'll squeeze your box in a minute.


(actually, got a couple of Squeezebox)

nicklouse

deadkenny wrote:

nicklouse wrote:

No that is a Squeezebox touch music streamer.

I'll squeeze your box in a minute.


(actually, got a couple of Squeezebox)

Have a touch a classic and a radio. Before that I started with a Roku.

Clank

nicklouse wrote:

the oldies may know what that thing on the top is

Oh my! 8)

That is a thing of much beauty.

Thewaylander

nicklouse wrote:

Clank wrote:

I am in admiration of your NADs, Sir. I note they have given you wood.

now sitting on glass and alloy



the oldies may know what that thing on the top is

The best way to store and play music back that i know of? but unfortunately requiring a certain amount of space

pilch

nicklouse wrote:

Clank wrote:

I am in admiration of your NADs, Sir. I note they have given you wood.

now sitting on glass and alloy



the oldies may know what that thing on the top is

This oldie recognises what's playing... Killing Joke, you are a man of taste

veronese68

nicklouse wrote:

the oldies may know what that thing on the top is

About 15 years ago in a pub with some young uns discussing music. The Clash were discussed and one of the girls said she liked "Straight to Hell" I told her I had the single and it was a double A side. She was a bit baffled by this, until one of the others said her Dad had some of that "stuff" and you could turn it over. How old did I feel?

nicklouse

Veronese68 wrote:

nicklouse wrote:

the oldies may know what that thing on the top is

About 15 years ago in a pub with some young uns discussing music. The Clash were discussed and one of the girls said she liked "Straight to Hell" I told her I had the single and it was a double A side. She was a bit baffled by this, until one of the others said her Dad had some of that "stuff" and you could turn it over. How old did I feel?

remember when CDs came out and we all put jam and scratched the top surface and they still played!

OK that might have been on TV but