What are your sound systems?

[danlo]

You may take it for granted, but due to a series of internet disconnects two years ago and a systems restore I've had a real "tinny" sound coming out of my super-cool "Darth Vader" JBL sub-woofer system and about 4 months ago I lost a speaker and could barely here out of the other. One good thing about my nasty virus attack is that Forest reset everything and everything concerning sound and flushed all the BS o/o my system. I tried my speakers yesterday and heard something normal o/o the semi-good receiver for about 5 secs and then it went dead. Encouraged I checked all the connections and was about to give up, then I said screw it and slammed all 3 wires as hard as I could into the sub-woofer and BLAMMMMM!!!!



I'm in super ultrasound heaven!!!!!!!!!!

This is the latest version the Creature III I have the original

[dANdeLION]

Are you talking about your computer speakers? If so, then I'm using an old Yamaha YST speaker/subwoofer set. My regular stereo is a Technics something or other that replaced my old JVC that blew up about a dozen years back. The receiver, tape player, cd player and speakers are all JVC.

[danlo]

Well we could talk about both my home stereo is a SONY A/V Control Center, a SONY 5 CD player and 3' Fisher towers.

[Lord Zombiac]

An old friend of mine once remarked:
"What is it with you musicians? You get the best possible equipment you can play on but never invest in anything to listen to music on."
True.
I have never spent big money on a great sound system. As long as I could crank the music that was enough for me.
with one exception: I can not listen to stereophonic recordings with a missing speaker!
I will move heaven and earth to get both channels working!
Ever listen to the Rolling Stone's "their satanic majesty's request" with a blown speaker?
"My God! Where did half the music go?"
Of course in the old days, you could hit a little switch that said "mono."
Being a cheapskate and dirt poor besides, I wish they still had that feature!

[Zarathustra]

Of course in the old days, you could hit a little switch that said "mono."
Being a cheapskate and dirt poor besides, I wish they still had that feature!

They probably don't include that feature in receivers anymore because music isn't recorded in mono anymore. However, I've heard that the Beatles were reissued on CD in their original mono format, and that they actually sound a lot better because that's the way they were intended to be played, instead of stereo. I've been curious to see how they sound myself. I'm not sure how modern receivers would handle them. It would probably be automatic, no need for the mono button.

My 10-yr-old Kenwood receiver has a digital mode that can turn stereo music into mono. It sounds like crap. I don't use it. But I have 6 speakers, so I don't need to.

[Phantasm]

Got my iPod hooked up to a Nad pre amp, into my Nad C350 amp, with some B&W speakers.
Sennheiser headphones if it gets too loud, and a Rega planar 2 if I decide to get my vinyl collection out.

[Cail]

Today I retired my Sony ES receiver. It sounds brilliant, but the lack of HDMI connectivity has finally rendered it obsolete. My listening room is small enough that I don't need the power any more, and I found that the Pioneer VSX-1020-K sounds nearly indistinguishable.

It's sad, but I just don't listen to music the way I used to. Not only that, decades of loud music and loud motorcycles have done their damage, and the really high-end equipment is wasted on me.

The plus side of this is that the Blue Rays will sound far, far better than they used to.

[Lord Zombiac]

Of course in the old days, you could hit a little switch that said "mono."
Being a cheapskate and dirt poor besides, I wish they still had that feature!

They probably don't include that feature in receivers anymore because music isn't recorded in mono anymore. However, I've heard that the Beatles were reissued on CD in their original mono format, and that they actually sound a lot better because that's the way they were intended to be played, instead of stereo. I've been curious to see how they sound myself. I'm not sure how modern receivers would handle them. It would probably be automatic, no need for the mono button.

My 10-yr-old Kenwood receiver has a digital mode that can turn stereo music into mono. It sounds like crap. I don't use it. But I have 6 speakers, so I don't need to.

It's up on youtube and it is very good!