Vintage Asylum

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

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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 "tuber" -- 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!

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