Mine’s in my home theater system, but no, I don’t use a stereo amplifier, tuner etc. anymore.
Can this be a poll of some kind? If so, can somebody make it into one? I keep screwing it up.
Thanks
Quasi
Heck, I not only have a state of the art system with Advent speakers and an AIWA receiver, I have a genuine two-track, stereo, 7" Kenwood reel-to-reel tape recorder and a Pioneer turntable!
kunilou,
Do they still print “Hi-Fi And Stereo Review”? I LOVED that magazine and always read it cover to cover. I had Pioneer EVRYTHING back in the 70’s!
I don’t know about state of the art, but I have a very fancy A/V preamp/processor and five-channel power amp for my home theater.
The main speakers are a pair of JBL bookshelfs that I’ve had since I was 19, the surrounds are a pair of small Yamahas that I originally got for my computer about four years ago, and the center channel is a brand new 3-way Infinity PC350. I also have a small powered sub.
Yes, it sounds fantastic. 
I don’t even have a stereo anymore, except the (stock) one in my car. I bought a Creative woofer and speaker setup for the computer like 10 years ago and it’s pretty much all I need.
What explains the decline in HiFi eqipement? Young people seem perfectly happy with compressed (MPRG) audio today-people (like you) with elaborate stereo gear are in the minoity.
Why is this?
I have a surround sound theater system which I use to play Warcraft. It also serves me well as HiFi equipment.
Q
We’ve got shit to do, and we’d rather be able to take all the music we own wherever we go than listen to it in uber-squiddly-ultra-super-high fidelity. Especially since we’re probably too drunk or high to appreciate the nuances anyway.
Same reason as the (slow) decline of the PC industry: most people care about convenience and price, not quality and functionality. For a while the only way to get audio is to have a complicated setup (likewise with computing needs and a PC). Now, there are easier ways, and only die-hards spend the time/money/effort on stuff that works well.
I still have and use my Luxman receiver/amp that I bought in 1989. I’ve never owned another, and have no plans to buy anything new.
I’ve still got the Sansui G5700 receiver/amp I bought in 1979. I use it to power the monitors in my studio. What a workhorse. Exactly like this one.
My system is a Project turntable with Benz moving coil cartridge, Rotel CD player, Rotel pre-amp, Bryston power amp, and Magnapan planar magnetic speakers with 5 foot long ribbon tweeters.
That’s audiophile geek speak for a great sounding system.
I also have a recording studio where I record high resolution digital sound, and a old
4 track Tascam analog tape deck.
Good sound means a lot to me. I have taught audio recording, and when people hear really good reproduced sound, they are amazed. It’s not the boom and sizzle of
too loud live concert sound sub-woofer thunder, but clear clean true sound.
The stereo imaging between the Magnapan speakers is holographic, and sweet.
Most people don’t take the time to just listen to music anymore. It’s background for doing other things.
David
It changed its name to Stereo Review and eventually Sound & Vision (focusing on home theater.) It was sold a couple of times, but last time I heard, it’s still being published.
This thread depresses me. Since we retired and downsized to a much smaller house, I sold off my stereo gear. I had a Denon receiver/amp, both NHT and Klipsch speakers, and associated equipment (turntable, CD, tape deck, switcher, etc). Upstairs I had a surround system with a Yamaha amp and B&W matched speakers. I miss it all.
Now I have a crappy shelf stereo and a sound bar that I plug my iPod into.
I feel like I’m bucking the trend. Most of my friends have an all-function boombox as their primary entertainment system, or use the speakers in their big-screen TV, both of which are abominable to me. They use 3 inch speakers that come with their computer or the micro one in their laptop which has poorer frequency response than their cellphone. And don’t get me started on cellphone fidelity, nowhere near a standard 1950’s Bell System telephone.
My hifi system isn’t top of the line, but ever since affordable fidelity reached the limits of human ears ca. 1960’s, I’ve always had a system that I am not ashamed of. My computer is piped thru my hifi, if I use my laptop on the road, it’s with a good set of Sony circumaural headphones, and my hifi is a component system with separate bookshelf or floorstanding speakers (used to be JBL 1015s or AR2s). Even combining a tuner with a power amp to make a receiver seems like a compromise to me.
Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I ain’t gonna change. I actually want to hear the music the way God intended.
I have a Bluetooth adapter plugged into my home theater speakers. I play music from my iPhone over the Bluetooth connection. The nice thing about it is, I can keep my iPhone next to me and control all the music from across the room or even in the next room.
I do have a stereo with AM/FM, auto-reverse cassette, and a 60 disc CD changer. It’s in the garage. I haven’t actually played a CD in about seven or eight years. I haven’t played a cassette in far longer. For radio, I have apps on my phone that bring in internet streams of my favorite stations.
At home in Chicago, I have a very impressive stereo/surround system based around a pair of Carver’s “The Amazing” loudspeakers, top end Yamaha AV receiver and Adcom amps. At my Kansas City apartment, I have a much smaller Yamaha “home theater in a box” system that still does an excellent job in a much smaller room.
But I have to confess, the majority of my music listening is done via headphones on an iPod Touch. The big system get fired up when an important new album comes out, or when I mix the sound on one of my concert videos.
I have a kind of piecemeal set up, salvaged from older systems. I’ve got a giant/heavy JVC JR-S401 receiver/amp from the 1970s that handles radio, phonograph, and analog and digital laserdisc audio; I have a cheaper, flimsier “home theater” receiver that plays better with AC-3/DTS laserdiscs, as well as handling Blu Ray/DVD audio and iPhone audio out. Both go to a switcher to which some ~15-year-old “hi fi” Pioneer speakers from old rack stereos are connected for front and rear channels, and a cheap speaker bar that came with the home theater receiver for center. I don’t have a subwoofer attached. My downstairs neighbor deserves some peace.
I bought a record player about 6 months ago- it hooks up to my computer.
I can play my records. hubba hubba.
Cassette tape?