What is your sound system?

I retired all my vinyl and mostly just listen to stuff on YouTube. I have everything running through a solid state McIntosh preamp and amp...vintage KLH 17s with new capacitors. I also added a Dayton Audio powered subwoofer to the system because there was an input for a subwoofer on the preamp.The subwoofer really adds that extra window-rattling bass, but doesn't really muddy up the rest of the bass...I don't know what frequencies trigger the sub bass to kick in, but they are waaaaaaay below what the KLH's could handle on their own.

I've been eyeballing some old tube stuff lately.....

Yamaha P-2200 amp, generic pre-amp & mixer, 2 Yorkville stage monitors.

My "nice" setup:
Homemade stereo tube amp (6SL7 pre's, push-pull KT88 power amps)
Dali Ikon 6 speakers (got for very cheap when I worked at a home theater store)
Analysis Plus hollow oval cables (free, from the same job)

I don't use that setup very often, unfortunately. Most of my home listening happens on a few antique tube radios that I rebuilt. They still have a tube preamp and power amp, but the audio input comes from a Bluetooth adapter that's wired to the radio's power switch. Turn on the radio, your phone connects automatically while the tubes warm up, et voilà!

Which room??
Currently my LR system is a hafler 220 with hafler 945 jfet preamp feeding a set of Bozak LS 250a from the late 70’s- no sub necessary

In my exercise area i am currently running a Kenwood KA 7100 with a smaller pair of Bozak 211 sonora with a Polk sub

I have an amplifier addiction- a true audioholic
Currently rebuilding the boards on a Hafler 500 that should be in the mix soon.
I have several other haflers both power and pre- also some Yamaha p3500s units with the Yamaha club series speakers-
A couple other Kenwood integrated amps……
Uhm- let me look around a minute

Bud man 43 said:

Which room??
Currently my LR system is a hafler 220 with hafler 945 jfet preamp feeding a set of Bozak LS 250a from the late 70’s- no sub necessary

In my exercise area i am currently running a Kenwood KA 7100 with a smaller pair of Bozak 211 sonora with a Polk sub

I have an amplifier addiction- a true audioholic
Currently rebuilding the boards on a Hafler 500 that should be in the mix soon.
I have several other haflers both power and pre- also some Yamaha p3500s units with the Yamaha club series speakers-
A couple other Kenwood integrated amps……
Uhm- let me look around a minute

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I mostly use my ipad as the source streaming Tidal hi fi-

I too listen mostly to YT these days. Here in my main media room at the Sandhill I have an old Pioneer receiver and unmatched Pioneer speakers. Also have systems in the upstairs media room and library, but I can't remember what they are, other than old receivers, CD changers and DVD players (with larger speakers in the media room and the bookshelf variety in the library).

At my end of the Riverhouse I have a JBL receiver and CD changer with a pair of JBL speakers, a pair who's name eludes me and a single Pioneer middle speaker. In the hallway that passes for a media room down there, I have a little all in one receiver and CD changer hooked up to my PC. It's a name brand, I just can't remember which one.

injinji said:

I too listen mostly to YT these days. Here in my main media room at the Sandhill I have an old Pioneer receiver and unmatched Pioneer speakers. Also have systems in the upstairs media room and library, but I can't remember what they are, other than old receivers, CD changers and DVD players (with larger speakers in the media room and the bookshelf variety in the library).

At my end of the Riverhouse I have a JBL receiver and CD changer with a pair of JBL speakers, a pair who's name eludes me and a single Pioneer middle speaker. In the hallway that passes for a media room down there, I have a little all in one receiver and CD changer hooked up to my PC. It's a name brand, I just can't remember which one.

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I haven't kept up for decades. I didn't know JBL made a receiver. I worked for JBL in the early 70's in customer service and was able to see a lot of what they made. The only electronics were power amps. Harman already had a line of receivers that were very popular. I was able to buy a pair of
L100s for half price, the only way I could afford them at that time. Still got 'em, probably die with 'em.

I want to integrate 2 small audio modulated tesla coils into the sound system I currently been workin' on in my truck. Nothing too flashy or over powering (I already made custom IC controlled rgb led speaker mounting rings from cheap 1/2'' pex tubing that look f'ing pro!), but just enough to add a whole other dimension, with different frequencies to the top end of the sound. And lightning bolt arc visuals. C'mon, its cool!

Have one on each side of the dashboard, or right on the door pods, etc.. as long as they don't zap my le or other body parts too bad, lol. I would tune them to better match the rest of the audio system, as opposed to making perfect square wave chippy 8 bit sounds like they do normally. They can sound more like a tweeter without bass.


$40-80 for a mini solid state audio tesla coils, ready to play with out of the box!

I just need the internal modules though, and not the whole units ready to go, so gonna get even cheaper parts shipped from china, possibly with more advanced modulation upgrades.

Oh ya, and I made a bass shaker to add into the bench seat, out of an old klipsch driver I had laying around. I'm not a huge sucker for bass, so the shaker plus two 8'' woofers should tickle my fancy, and not my nose hairs.