A jump into the vintage (nostalgia) pool... - RhythmDevil - Vintage Asylum

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A jump into the vintage (nostalgia) pool...

RhythmDevil

I've had my share of systems over the years, and delight in my current "primary" system. But I still remember the first systems I heard back in my "poor starving college student" days, sitting on a friends couch, listening to large Advents driven by a Marantz receiver. I recently discovered my local used record store has a back room with vintage stuff -- the owner likes restoring them.
I recently came across a nice Kenwood tuner there, but today there was a moment of synchronicity -- a Marantz 2230 receiver and a pair of refoamed/recapped OLAs. What can I say, the price was right, and they followed me home. I added a vintage Kenwood turntable to the equation, and I'm in heaven.
Bass is deep, and maybe a little "tubey" -- the 2230 is capacitor-coupled. Some of that is the Advents, of course -- they were never bass-shy. The phono section is solid, as is the tuner.
Time to spin some 70's vinyl....

Cerebrate!

Edits: 04/18/24

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Topic - A jump into the vintage (nostalgia) pool... - RhythmDevil 13:21:10 04/18/24 (12)

RE: A jump into the vintage (nostalgia) pool... - hahax@verizon.net 19:52:31 04/27/24 (4)

Tradeoffs - E-Stat 14:07:49 04/29/24 (2)

RE: Tradeoffs - Triode_Kingdom 16:04:55 04/29/24 (1)

When I ran doubles - E-Stat 16:07:39 04/29/24 (0)

That's exactly right (nt) - Triode_Kingdom 15:19:24 04/28/24 (0)

I had a stacked pair of Visonik Davids in College - Story 05:17:55 04/27/24 (0)

RE: A jump into the vintage (nostalgia) pool... - dbphd 19:20:49 04/25/24 (0)

For a long time, I ran stacked Advents: - J. S. Bach 10:24:37 04/24/24 (1)

stacked Advents: - M3 lover 10:34:55 04/25/24 (0)

I still like the large Advent. I measured it +/- 3db from 40Hz to 16KHz, - alaskahiatt 12:33:10 04/19/24 (2)

RE: I still like the large Advent. I measured it +/- 3db from 40Hz to 16KHz, - RhythmDevil 03:20:05 04/20/24 (1)

Okay, thank you. With the HTMs, I was trying to get 805s on the cheap. - alaskahiatt 09:45:00 04/21/24 (0)

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