Your AV equipment journey
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What AV equipments you owned b4 current setup? Mine... Year 1998 Sony STR-DB589 Sony DVD Player Sony 5.1 satellite speakers ECE 29" CRT Denon mini compo Year 2007 Yamaha RX-V861 Sony PS3 PSB Alpha T1 & C1 Velodyne CHT-12R Sony satellite as surround ECE DVD player Samsung HD950 upscalling DVD Player Sony 40" LCD TV Year 2008 Marantz SR-6003 PSB Alpha T1 & C1 Orb audio Mod1 as surround Velodyne CHT-12R Dune BD Prime 1.0 Sony PS3 Pioneer PDP-508XG Plasma TV Year 2009 Marantz SR6003 Axiom M60v2 Axiom VP150 SVS PC12 Plus Cambridge Audio 640Cv2 CD player Dune BD Prime 1.0 Sony PS3 Emotiva XPA-3 Pioneer PDP-508XG Year 2010 Onkyo TX-NR808 Emotiva XPA-3 SVS PC12 Plus Dune BD Prime 1.0 Oppo BD-80 Sony PS3 Axiom M60v2 & VP150v2 Orb Audio Mod1 as surround Year 2011 (now) - HT Room Onkyo TX-NR808 Emotiva XPA-3 SVS PC12 Plus Dune BD Prime 1.0 Sony PS3 Axiom M60v2 & VP150v2 Mordaunt Short Avant 903 as surrouns Sharp XV9000E 720p projector 120" screen 2011 (now) - living room Pioneer PDP-508XG plasma TV Marantz SR7500 Mordaunt Short Avant 905 and 901 Oppo BD80 Mordaunt Short 10" sub-woofer Orb Audio Mod1 as surround now I know where all my money gone...
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I've had a number of items in the past. Usually summed up as "crap" before what I have now. Now that we are moving, I am starting from scratch with everything but my Axioms. I've owned some low end Pioneer receivers and CD players. Mid-level Pioneer DVD player. That was back when I had my KLH Speakers (Crappity crap crap crap...) I still own a Pioneer receiver (Elite line at least), and have had a nice upconverting Panasonic S97 dvd player before I went HDDVD and Blu-Ray. Here are some pictures of my old (really old) setup.. Start counting the speakers. I have them all over the place.
Farewell - June 4, 2020
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what did you ever do with those chairs, and where the heck did you get them, to cool.
M80s VP180 4xM22ow 4xM3ic EP600 2xEP350 AnthemAVM60 Outlaw7700 EmoA500 Epson5040UB FluanceRT85
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Found them on eBay. That is the house that we moved from about 8 years ago. Theater was there for all of 2 years, but I wanted "theater seats" and this is what you got for "theater seats"... You know, seats from a theater. No plush leather recliners.
Anyway, some guy was selling like 1000 seats on eBay in just about any combination of "end" seats or "middle" seats. You could buy as many as you wanted. I think that I paid $400 total for all of them shipped to my house. The fabric looked brand new, and the metal/plastic parts were a beige color until I painted them. Some had a few dents in them that I removed the cushion and popped out, but overall very good condition. We did have a couch for a front row and found that we sat there most of the time. So yeah, 3 rows of seats. Height difference wasn't great from row 2 to row 3 though.
They got sold with that house just to have the new owners rip everything out about 6 months later because they "couldn't figure out how to run things". Come on, it was a TV, receiver, and DVD player. Geez.
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Let's see...
pre-1973 - my parents "Hi-fi", with a beautiful wood cabinet, tube amp, automatic turntable with 4 or 5 pound tracking weight, and a single 12" speaker with a little cone mounted in the middle of the big cone to give the illusion of treble
1973-1976 - same as above, but with a series of home-made external speakers replacing the built-in 12", starting with Philips / DeForest 2-way (5-1/2" woofer, 1") then replaced with KEF 2-way (8" woofer, 3/4" tweeter).
1976-1994-ish - Advent 300 receiver, SWTP power amp, some kind of decent turntable, Shure M95, pair of 3-way Philips home-made (10" / 4" / 1")
1994-2004-ish - some not particularly memorable system
2004-2005-ish - HK stereo receiver, M2ti, PSB Subsonic5, Kenwood CD changer
2005-2010 - HK 630, M60, QS8, VP100, SVS PC-Plus, with a Sanyo Z4 projector added somewhere along the way
2010-present - same but with VP180 replacing VP100
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M60ti, VP180, QS8, M2ti, EP500, PC-Plus 20-39 M5HP, M40ti, Sierra-1 LFR1100 active, ADA1500-4 and -8
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