lewtot184
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Anybody here into vintage or modern stuff. I'm not an audiofile but i want to play my vinyle again.
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lewtot184
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trying to get my old onkyo stuff going again. turntable may be shot; cp1130. got my receiver running again, tx5000, but it doesn't seem to as clear as i remember. thought about taking the cover off and spraying some cleaner and blow some dust out. not sure about do's and don'ts there. i think i'll need a new turntable and i want a cassette deck. just starting over.
I've been going through old amps/ recievers in the garage, they're always crusty and distorting. Wiggling buttons and knobs, usually get better when they warm up. Had an old CD player come back to life though. Now I have to see if I did chuck out the ox of CDs 
lewtot184
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I let some dummy talk me into throwing away my good tape deck because the belt broke.
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I'm excited to see how you mount that turntable in your dash! 
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that's a good turntable and receiver. what is your issue? scratchy noises in the pots of the receiver is dust. Pull the cover and spray away. Disassemble to get at the pots according to your comfort level. It's not that high dollar of a receiver, while still worthy, so be brave.
clean the potentiometers of your receiver with deoxit ($12-15 and available locally
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clean the potentiometers of your receiver with deoxit ($12-15 and available locally
A couple of years ago I moved all my old, old stereo equipment into our little study near a computer desk. My Yamaha receiver is late 70s vintage as is my Phillips turntable on the right speaker. A Sony digital turntable is on the left speaker for transferring vinyl to computer files. And then an assortment of a newer CD player and older graphic equalizer and a dynamic range expander.
Since newer vehicles don’t have CD players any more (or cassette players) I’ve been wanting to transfer some of my records , cassettes and CDs to MP3 files to load on a thumb drive to use in the car. My wife gave me the Sony turntable about 2007 and I had never used it but I took it out of the box the summer of 2024, loaded the software on my Windows 10 laptop and gave it a try and it recorded just fine to the program and that let me load it into my Music files and on to a thumb drive. Since my CD player hooks to my analog receiver I purchased a small CD player with USB output. Since my BI T2 Cassette player needs new drive belts I also bought an inexpensive cassette player with USB output and hooked them up to my laptop. Both will record into Windows Media Player where they can be saved as MP3 files in my Music files and copied to my thumb drive. The small CD and Cassette players are to the side of the laptop.
I spent several months recording about 1600-1700 songs on to the thumb drive. I just recorded selective songs that I really like rather than complete albums. The Sony turntable software has tools to clean up any vinyl noise and equalize volume levels. I could not do that with the CD and Cassette devices in Windows Media Player - at least that I could discover. There are probably programs available they could be run through to do so. My truck has a handy and responsive volume control on the backside of the spoke to rim area that falls right at my finger area that makes it easy to click up or down once or twice if a song comes along that’s a little loud or too low so it doesn’t bother me at all.
It is a little tedious figuring out all the movies for the software and steps in the process so I spent some time mapping the steps out on a couple cheat sheets and have them there by my laptop. Also, I found a lot of my old 70s, and 80s prerecorded cassettes were shot and not recordable. A lot of my premium cassettes that I recorded on with my old BIC Cassette recorder were still OK but most of them were made from my records so I didn’t mess with them too much.
But, you can probably get some new life out of that old equipment.
Since newer vehicles don’t have CD players any more (or cassette players) I’ve been wanting to transfer some of my records , cassettes and CDs to MP3 files to load on a thumb drive to use in the car. My wife gave me the Sony turntable about 2007 and I had never used it but I took it out of the box the summer of 2024, loaded the software on my Windows 10 laptop and gave it a try and it recorded just fine to the program and that let me load it into my Music files and on to a thumb drive. Since my CD player hooks to my analog receiver I purchased a small CD player with USB output. Since my BI T2 Cassette player needs new drive belts I also bought an inexpensive cassette player with USB output and hooked them up to my laptop. Both will record into Windows Media Player where they can be saved as MP3 files in my Music files and copied to my thumb drive. The small CD and Cassette players are to the side of the laptop.
I spent several months recording about 1600-1700 songs on to the thumb drive. I just recorded selective songs that I really like rather than complete albums. The Sony turntable software has tools to clean up any vinyl noise and equalize volume levels. I could not do that with the CD and Cassette devices in Windows Media Player - at least that I could discover. There are probably programs available they could be run through to do so. My truck has a handy and responsive volume control on the backside of the spoke to rim area that falls right at my finger area that makes it easy to click up or down once or twice if a song comes along that’s a little loud or too low so it doesn’t bother me at all.
It is a little tedious figuring out all the movies for the software and steps in the process so I spent some time mapping the steps out on a couple cheat sheets and have them there by my laptop. Also, I found a lot of my old 70s, and 80s prerecorded cassettes were shot and not recordable. A lot of my premium cassettes that I recorded on with my old BIC Cassette recorder were still OK but most of them were made from my records so I didn’t mess with them too much.
But, you can probably get some new life out of that old equipment.
BB BELLA
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I can operate a mouse and the guitar okay, vinyl probably not a good idea! my buddy has vinyl an he's a pain in the *** when putting jackets on,ffs I've done this before!
lewtot184
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High notes seem a little scrathy, lows a little muddy. I'm just using the radio now because the turn table tone arm isn't working correctly and there are clicking noises internally. I do have radio reception issues where i live. Not sure if it's a reciever or broadcast issues. Bose 501 speakers.
Love playing my vinyl have about 50 albums. I gave away my old receiver like a dummy. Right now I have a Hitachi HTA 7000 receiver and HT-45 turntable. Looking for a 1980 Realistic receiver. Have about 50 cds.
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QD is good stuff, I use it on my pro PA gear if things get wonky, and every couple months as preventative maintenance.
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deOxit is amazing…along with QD contact cleaner. I have a Pioneer PL-510A turntable and a Marantz 2270 hooked up to a pair of Klipsch Fortes…they sound good and can rock the house!
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The Onkyo turntable will likely need a new belt at least. You can download service manuals for it free online.
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I have had my gear in storage for some time. Not sure the Dalquist DQ 12 speakers will survive. Bought the pioneer vsx-d1s new and is still in the original box along with (2) adcom amps.
Wired the house with in wall speakers and all Bluetooth Spotify music. I guess I should try to sell the stuff?
Wired the house with in wall speakers and all Bluetooth Spotify music. I guess I should try to sell the stuff?
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That's a classic receiver. Still worth a lot to collectors.
Just so you know, AMK Bolt has a "Marantz" section for screws, feet, lamps under the "More" section...
www.amkproducts.com/marantz/
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I would love a vintage big power receiver. I have a mid 90's Danon thta is about 50wpc but is very very strong and sounds great on smaller speakers. my other receiver is an early 90's Yamaha with more juice but it is getting very tired and sad and should really be retired to garage unit.
I want power because my music speakers are a pair of American Accoustics (made by parent company of MTX for American in WI years ago, note: NOT AAD) that can handle basically anything and could probably blow the windows out of the house if I had the juice to push them that hard. They sound fantastic at moderate levels which is about all that the Yamaha can handle anyway. If I lived near other humans these would be loud enough to cause phone calls. Good thing I don't
I have been toying with finding a pre-amp and finding an old Adcom GFA555 to juice them but much like my project cars, they need to slide down the priority list for a bit.
All the digital MP3 and ear buds and whatever in the world can't replicate filling a room with sound that envelops you sent by a quality player. I prefer CD as that is the era I grew up in but I only use players from the end of the engineered DAC era in the 90's. Once the players started entrusting the DAC to the receiver, and the receivers all started pushing 5.1 and 7.1 for playing movies, regular old 2 speaker stereo sound went out the window. Sure they make nice stuff now days but it is not the same.
My favorite CD player is a 5 disc Sony but the turn table wore out and I can;t find another unit for parts. My second favorite is a 24 disc changer type from Pioneer. very clean sound from that one, just not quite as "alive".
I have my Dad's 1950's original KLH turn table/stereo and bookshelf speakers for the old records. It is getting to need new caps pretty quick but still sounds nice. original KLH was some really nice stuff. Then in the 80's it went full kabuki. Never go full kabuki.
I use his Scott FM tuner with it. I can pick up stations on that thing I didn't know existed from far away and I don't even have an antenna on it. They just don;t make stuff like they used to. But that unit needs some service. Some day....
I want power because my music speakers are a pair of American Accoustics (made by parent company of MTX for American in WI years ago, note: NOT AAD) that can handle basically anything and could probably blow the windows out of the house if I had the juice to push them that hard. They sound fantastic at moderate levels which is about all that the Yamaha can handle anyway. If I lived near other humans these would be loud enough to cause phone calls. Good thing I don't
I have been toying with finding a pre-amp and finding an old Adcom GFA555 to juice them but much like my project cars, they need to slide down the priority list for a bit.
All the digital MP3 and ear buds and whatever in the world can't replicate filling a room with sound that envelops you sent by a quality player. I prefer CD as that is the era I grew up in but I only use players from the end of the engineered DAC era in the 90's. Once the players started entrusting the DAC to the receiver, and the receivers all started pushing 5.1 and 7.1 for playing movies, regular old 2 speaker stereo sound went out the window. Sure they make nice stuff now days but it is not the same.
My favorite CD player is a 5 disc Sony but the turn table wore out and I can;t find another unit for parts. My second favorite is a 24 disc changer type from Pioneer. very clean sound from that one, just not quite as "alive".
I have my Dad's 1950's original KLH turn table/stereo and bookshelf speakers for the old records. It is getting to need new caps pretty quick but still sounds nice. original KLH was some really nice stuff. Then in the 80's it went full kabuki. Never go full kabuki.
I use his Scott FM tuner with it. I can pick up stations on that thing I didn't know existed from far away and I don't even have an antenna on it. They just don;t make stuff like they used to. But that unit needs some service. Some day....
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