Stereo Systems: What do you have ?

[mapuc]

In my hobby room I have and old ghettoblaster with analog FM radio and cd-player.

In my living room I have a DAB+ radio with cd-player

Some years ago I had what you called a stereo rack, with record players, radio, amplifier and double cassette player and two loudspeaker.

What kind of music I hear...I listen mostly to Classic FM. Otherwise it's ELO, Mike Oldfield, jean Michel Jarre and ABBA

Markus

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by mapuc

In my hobby room I have and old ghettoblaster with analog FM radio and cd-player.

In my living room I have a DAB+ radio with cd-player

Some years ago I had what you called a stereo rack, with record players, radio, amplifier and double cassette player and two loudspeaker.

What kind of music I hear...I listen mostly to Classic FM. Otherwise it's ELO, Mike Oldfield, jean Michel Jarre and ABBA

Markus

Ghetto Blaster ? Did you really just say that ? You know Markus, I think you are really getting the hang of American slang phrases.

Good music though, Markus.

[Skybird]

An old-fashioned hi-fi system from the 90s in my living room, but hardly ever used. Rich CD library, all scratch free, I don't understand why so many people complain about scratches and CDs only live a few years - what do you do with your discs? Do you use them as frisbees or what?

I have Samsung blutooth NC "ear beans" as well as an NC blutooth headphone of the Bigger type, which I use a lot now with a tablet or smartphone, having mostly digitised my old tapes or CDs many years ago. I also use a duo of two Soundcore blutooth speakers in the kitchen (true stereo), their sound quality the way I set them up is unbelievable for 2x40 Euros.

I rarely listen to the radio, too much babbling and strange noise that they misleadingly call "music", but sounds like heavy machines doing work at a building site. I like my CDs and internet radio with theme-based stations without talking. The older I get, the more I feel the need to get away from this crazy world and its crazy people, sometimes I find it really hard to bear people now. I am becoming allergic to and aggressive from media, especially mainstream media.

While they invent many new sound standards and True sound and Natural Sound and whatever it is called, to me these usually are only tricks to boost sales newly, anmd spacious sound tehcnolgies often sound distorted and artificial to me. Despite its bad reputation: stnadard Stereo, 2 channels, if you have a good music sample well recorded and then have it turned into an MP3 with a real high bit rate - I promise you that the overhwhelming majority of people and experts would be unable to reliably note a difference to a CD, no matter what speakers or headphones are being used. And my ears are still top: I could listen to bats, and during an accoustic test just a few years ago was told I had the perception characteristics line of a 15-20 year old. My father even had the so-called absolute hearing/ear, now at high age he lost it.

For archiving I prefer hardware CDs. For everday use, I prefer digital interface and blutooth speaker/headphones, its more comfortable. Also, I am a bit sentimental for my old CDs. They make me remember the time when CDs were new and players were expensive and time was still good.

[Rhodes]

Never had a hi-fi system from the 90s. Have a Rotel CD-player and a Cyrus One amplifier plus two home made speakers ( built by a electronic professor, colleague/friend of my father).
My father was more vinyl and had a Thorens player. Sadly i have not room to have that assemble and connected.

But I might have if a discard some stuff around here...

[Rockstar]

I have a table top Klipsch The III. It’s a wireless speaker that I think has pretty good sound for the price and size. I can play my Spotify tunes, podcasts, pretty much anything and everything via blue tooth 4.0 from any of my devices.

https://www.klipsch.com/products/the-three

[Skybird]

How is the bass in that thing^? I read its too excessive, but else the sound is described to be extremely good.

Could one place a small disc player on top of it without interferences of any kind, and connect it via cable??

I'm thinking about getting rid of that big component HiFi system of mine. Takes a lot fo room, plus two boxes, and then I only rarely use it.

However, I feel I am no ready to give up on my double tape deck, although I do not use that that much anymore, too. But I simply love tape cassettes. And I also recorded a lot back in the days.

[Catfish]

We built a Klipsch horn in our twenties, with cupboard dimensions. "Impressive" does not quite describe it, it was just about loudness and bass. They also had one in a disco, protruding some 8 feet into the room
But Rockstar's new Klipsch device seems to have gone through a lot of develpment, i am really interested in the quality and frequency range of this thing.
I have an older (30 years now?) english NAD amplifier with NAD CD player, an NAD vinyl player and an old Kenwood tape deck, playing over AE loudspeakers. I recently switched to a Pro-ject stream box and with the quality provided by this the old HiFi setup sounds like crap