I never had one in the first place. The closest thing I have to a dedicated stereo is the boom box with removable speakers I got as a high school graduation present in 1998. I have some fairly good speakers connected to my computer so I can listen to music in mp3 form through that. I basically never listen to CDs or cassettes anymore anyway. The boom box just gets used for listening to the radio.
I have a shitty old desktop that i use for input, DAC, and preamp duties. But then separate power amps for mains, sub, and surrounds.
Nope, and in a 520 sq ft apartment, there isn’t room. Plus, no chance to turn it up, this isn’t a college apartment building.
Two. The downstairs is my Klipsch Tangent floor standers, Carver amp and pre amp, Thorens turntable and Denon horizontal cassette deck. The newest piece of gear there is the Denon and I bought that in 1992.
Upstairs is the home theatre: Onkyo AVR, Bryston front speakers, a pair of Orb Audios for Atmos, and Cambridge Minx for the rears. Cable box, smart tv, and Oppo Blu-Ray player are on that.
The last one of any size that I had was also comprised of a receiver/amp, a cassette deck and a turntable, but I had two 300-CD carousels and a 200-CD carousel routed through a switcher. Also an equalizer, two old Klipsch 100 speakers and two new NHT tower speakers similar to these. They had a built in subwoofer that could be passive or amped.
I miss the crankitude on that.
I do, I don’t use it much but it’s there when I want it. I have gotten rid of the CD players (one with five disc capacity, one 300-disc carousel so that I could set it on random play and hear music for hours) because I ripped all my CDs to digital files. So I have a Yamaha receiver, a Technics turntable, and my speakers. They are a set of wood-enclosed Fisher speakers, about 12x20, that must be 45 years old. They still sound better than anything I’ve heard in a store whenever I went looking to upgrade. I suppose I’m just used to them.
Yep. Big old Denon Integrated Amp, Peavey Eq running 4 pairs of speaker LOUD. It’s on 24/7.
Yes, although the “stereo” part is pretty much now just a receiver (I do have my Blu-Ray player, which can play CDs, hooked up to it, if that counts) and five speakers. I have a cassette tape deck lying around somewhere, although I don’t think I have any cassettes for it any more; it’s not connected as there’s no room on the Ikea stand where everything else is (TV on top, receiver, Blu-Ray player, XBox, and cable box). I also have my original turntable, which is about 30 years old, but I can’t get it to work; shame, as I do have a few old LPs lying around, including an original release of the Monty Python Contractual Agreement Album (with the “Death of John Denver” track and inner sleeve).
Yup. Everything but the turntable is ancient. I have a Bluetooth transmitter which can stream the stuff to my headphones. It is in my office, so I sometimes play the CDs I haven’t bothered ripping.
I ditched it all (minus one integrated amp and speaker set buried in a closet for ‘emergencies’) in favor of a multiroom Sonos setup. The den has the full surround plus subwoofer setup, the living room has the same minus the sub, and I have two other rooms with simple stereo pairs.
Yes, it’s not old either. I got a Denon 7.1 receiver and B&W speakers / subwoofer about 5 years ago.
and, btw, some of the components were purchased almost 30 years ago through the DAK Catalog.
I still have my system in my living room, though I rarely play it. It all dates from the 80s and 90s, except for the Technics turntable, which dates from the 70s. The last component I bought was a CD duplicator.
No longer in use. Integrated amp, my “good” speakers and a small tuner are living with my father. A couple of CD players, a sub-woofer, a dual-well cassette deck, component rack and spare stereo receiver in storage. Turntable( and records )given away or inadvertently destroyed.
I still use my CDs( mostly car, some computer, occasionally the blu-ray ), still have a couple of little monitors I use with my TV. I have several head-phones, including a couple of pretty nice ones. An inexpensive headphone amp or two.
But, yeah those days are largely behind me. At least for now.
Yes, but none of it’s particularly old. We use it every day for watching TV in the evenings.
Yamaha A/V receiver, Sony BD player (not used very often), Tivo, Roku, and a sort-of home theater PC that is my Plex server for music, but also rarely used for that purpose. A pair of large JBL speakers (the oldest components, at 15-20 years old) and a 65-inch Panasonic HDTV that’s about seven years old.
No turntable of course, because VINYL SOUNDS LIKE SHIT!
Yep, it’s still connected to my Sony Wega tv. Haven’t turned either on in at least 5 years, but what criminal is gonna look in a house, see a 100lb. Wega and think they’ve hit the jackpot? It’s an anti-theft device.
Yes I have a pretty decent setup. I have receiver, separate power amp (better power plug speakers into this directly), DVD player (used to play cds but no longer) and 2 nice bookshelf speakers. i also have a subwoofer for movies.
Alas I hardly use it as it is in my bedroom and i do about 80% of all my music listening in my car on my long commute to work and home. I hate to think about it but until I get a job that allows me to work from home - and stop having to work late - I will only use it sparingly.
Yep. Started out building Dynaco separates - Tuner, Pre-amp & Power Amp) in college along with AR speakers. That evolved to Luxman Tuner & Integrated Amp, enhanced with a Dolby processor & an amp for surround channels.
Current stack consists of a Denon receiver, BluRay, LaserDisc(!), HD OTA tuner, TiVo and AppleTV.
Yes. I might even have had my original Sony stereo receiver that I bought with the proceeds of my very first summer job back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, but it eventually developed some kind of problem in one channel so I was forced to buy a modern multi-channel home theater receiver. But aside from the fact that it’s used a lot with movies, it still fulfills the same role as the Sony, albeit now with a CD player or devices that stream music. I do own a nice Dual turntable but it’s packed away somewhere. I think I also have a decent Sony reel-to-reel tape deck and also a cassette deck, but I have no idea where those are. Probably in the boxes in the basement somewhere. I see no real point in trying to find them. I know that I threw out massive quantities of vinyl records at one time.
Not only do I have a component system, I have five of them. Some parts are thirty years old, some I bought earlier this month. I’ve given up on Bluetooth speakers, even the most modest system I have outperforms any Bluetooth speaker I have heard (with the possible exception of my outdoor speakers, which are ok but not great). Chromecast Audio streamers and FLAC sources brought the older stuff I have out of retirement, and I’m loving it.