Anybody in to High End Audio

[steve]

on the board? How about Ham radio? Any electronics techies?

[baddjonny]

Yup I'm all of the above fcc tech lic. worked for a high end speaker company for 13 yrs. Dahlquist if you heard of them. now I belive defunct. Boss snap rolled his vett in 89 brain damaged . that's drinkin and drivin for ya.
jon b
PS Nothing like a AUDIO RESEARCH amp and preamp with good old direct to disk records my DQ-10's with sub . What an amazing sound stage. And it sure helped to have the speakers redesigned
and upgraded in my living room. by DQ himself.

[pyro]

I have a mildly upgraded sound sys. in my Lebaron.
Pioneer DEH-P835R deck (best they made when I bought it),
JBL GT 5 1/4" 2-ways in the doors,
Pioneer 6-disc CD changer, controlled by the deck,
Pioneer GM-X922 amp, 300W bridged (sub amp),
JL Audio 10" subs X 3 in a partitioned, sealed box, completely consumes the trunk.

It seems liek overkill, but it's a convertible and the wind would otherwise kill the sound at highway speed.

At home, my audio is kinda thrown together.

Sony reciever, it's actually a 12-year old boombox with the speakers detached. I connected a resistor network to the outputs to make them line-level. Feeds into a Peavey 215 rackmount EQ, then into an Alesis 100W x 2 power amp.
The power amp drives two Alesis Monitor One studio reference monitor speakers, and a pair of JBL bookshelf speakers. these are REAL James B. Lansing JBL's from the 1970's. They are fantastic. When I want to watch a movie, I disconnect the boombox reciever and plug my VCR audio outs into it instead. The TV is so small I won't even mention it. the VCR likes to eat tapes sometimes.

[ProComp]

If anyone is looking, I just pulled two Rockford Fosgate 500A2 Amps out of my Yukon. They are approx. 2-3 years old. Work great. They are 500w x 1 or 250w x 2. $300 shipped.
Pictures and serial numbers available.

ProComp

[ShorePounder]

I play around with electronics, mostly guitar effects, but I'll tinker with anything. While I like high end audio, my budget doesn't think it's necessary. :D :D

[Michael Martin]

Back in 94- 97 was into it real heavy. Traveled all over the south east competing in car audio comp. Had 3 state records & 5 world records. I competed in DB Drags, NSPL, WAC, and ISCA.

Just kinda out grew it.
Currently in the 'Burban
10-disk kenwood changer, MMATS amps & seperates, 2 10" Bostwick subs, 7" tv w/ DVD player

Heres some picts of the Nissan:

[JW]

I work on corporate jet Avionics and aircraft entertainment day in and day out for Duncan Aviation. At home, 5.1 Onkyo TS-DX676 receiver running some Paradigm Monitor 90P's and an assortment of surround speakers and DVD and turntable and cassette and such, but I'm not 'into' the stuff like I was years ago. Some CB radio, some HF radio, but not anymore.
None of my stereo is 'high end', I was always too poor to go the extra huge dollars on audio when less dollars sounded great when researched long enough. Although, when I told some friends at work that my 'starter' priced surround system was about $5,000 they about died. To them, that's high end LOLOLOL

[Michael Martin]

pict of amps

[Michael Martin]

16 12's & 9000 watts of power= loud...

[steve]

Thats one very nice setup but its not really what I meant by Hi End Audio.
What I'm talking about is $40-100K mono bloc amps , ribbon speakers that start at $25,000 a pair , seperate D/A and transport for the CD, analog systems with $8,000 turntables, $2000 cartridges, and Direct to Disc LP's that completely obliterate CD's. We are talking "The Doors" right there in the room with you . You can hear a pin drop in the recording studio. Wire that costs $600 a foot.

Mike, What you have is a very LOUD system and probably a system that can really pound out a 40hertz bass note. Not quit the same but obviously very nice for that style of system. Many of the audiophiles I deal with prefer BY FAR vacuum tubes, LP's and even studio reel to reel tapes. There is more information on an LP. CD's being digital are actually steps 1--10, an LP has an analog signal so you get the little details--.01 to 9.99 also. In fact the pits in an LP are smaller then the pits in a CD. More info , better sound quality. Same with tubes, solid state is off or on. Tubes are more analoglike in their abilities. In fact they can withstand a nuclear electrical pulse whereas solid state is fried by one. Cool huh?
Anyway, your car looked nice Michael.

[CDave]

I've got three decent systems.

Truck system,
Denon head unit
Polk DB 6 1/2" + tweeter separates in the stock door locations
Polk EX 4X6 in rear
Polk DB 10" sub in homebuilt box, under rear seat
Rockford Fosgate Punch X crossover
MTX RT 2100X amp
MTX RT 4240 amp

Home system,
Sony 5.1 A/V reciever
Sony DVD
Paradigm 5se fronts
Paradigm Titans rear
Paradigm center channel
Cerwin Vega 12" sub/in homebuilt enclouser. Will be replaced by a Paradigm sub soon.

Computer sound system,
Sound Blaster Live sound card
Sony ES reciever
Polk RT25 shielded speakers
Baja 10" sub/ in homebuilt enclouser

[Michael Martin]

Was loud (164.9 db) but also near perfect in sound quality. 60 bands of eq & usually scored scored high with less than 2db of deviation on a linear x scope.

Different audio than you were disscussing, but still close as both are in search of the best poss. reproduction of a tone.

I actually tried a few of the tube amps in my truck but they would not take the abuse(vibration). Killer power though.

Mike

[popeyebob]

Steve. I play the game. Not quite to the $ levels you state, but my system is all "Fire Bottles". I have hundreds of virgin vinal. I pick up good vinal when ever I can.
Cd/s belong in cars. P/s. My wife is the audiophile.
She can hear the difference between interconnects,and wires. I have been in the Hi Fi business since 1973. Saw tubes fade from the mainsteam.I used to judge "soundoff's, and DB drags a while ago. Right here in Northern Illinois, too!

[steve]

Man, thats alright dude! You are 60 minutes from me. I'm in Sterling. What kind of tubes do you like? I have about 500Lps mostly DtoDisc and 1/2 speeds. I have been collecting tubes for about 12 years now. I have some cool stuff like MIG fighter power supply tubes, ICBM ( missle ) tubes, radar, transmitting, and of course the usual audio from 12AX7 to KT88 and everything in between. Whats your favorites? Do you build? I build all my stuff. Tell your wife to try the Flatline 2 conductor from Madisound . Excellent stuff for a very good price. My wife has great ears too. Women are supposed to keep their hearing longer and they can hear slightly larger range in both directions.

[popeyebob]

Yea, between model planes, model boats,gun.s, hifi,loud car's, and boats, my hearing is limited. I finally settled down with my audio research gear. What tubes? I dont know right now. The one.s that were in it when I got it. I might look some time. I had to start listening to the MUSIC, and not the HIFI.
Two channel forever.
Popeye.
P/s tube car fi ??

[Audiofn]

I just finished putting in a 400,000 buck system in a guys house is that high end enough for ya :D:D It was B&W, Krell, Custom subs, Runco and Draper and Crestron.

Jon

[steve]

I used to own B&W 801Matrix's. I'll bet he went with the Nautilus speakers for that money though. Never liked the Krell stuff. Tubes that are properly designed around sound better to me. I build all my electronics except the D/A and transport. Sounds like a great sounding system! Did you get to demo it??