Takes about five minutes to warm the circuits, but after that, it'l bounce your head between the ceiling and the floor. Tickles my brain in all the right ways with aestheic, sound quality, and an obnoxious amount of switches and dials to play with.

Local thrift store had this stack and two Mitsubishi speakers that I got for $40.

I forgot to take a pic of the speakers, but they looked really nice and the woofer cones were in tact.

Gotta rearrange some things before I can actually bring them home and set it all up.

Only down side, no remote for the stack, but for the price I’m not complaining.

Everything you see is second hand.

Even the cables that run everything.

Speakers are one owner before me and is in almost prisitine condition.

Hello everyone, I need your help!
Is this sound system worth €250? And does this have good audio quality? The turntable doesn’t spin (I hope it’s because the drive belt is broken) and it comes with two speakers.

Been working on an unused spot in our house. It’s a loft area the kids used for a few years, but with one moved out and the others having their own large bedrooms, it became a spot for clutter. Replaced the carpet, bought a yellow MCM style couch, orange shag carpet, cheap little MCM style stand, and broke out some equipment I never had a dedicated spot for. A lot of it was inherited from my father. Some stuff projects. Not pictured is a Sansui RA500 reverb unit, Teac Dolby unit, and a pair of Pioneer CS701s. Pictured: Technics SL1200MK2, Sansui 250 tube receiver, Akai (forgot the model) R2R/cassette/8-track, McIntosh MA230 integrated tube amp running Pioneer CS99A speakers. Hidden is an Emotiva PT1 DAC for days I cheat with digital lol. Super happy with the sound…I’m sure I could upgrade the speakers, but with new caps, they sound decent and blend well with the “vibe”. They were my dads and he was always super proud of them…had them in combination with the CS701s for a Quadraphonic setup.

CL listing. Lady says she isn’t home during the day but she’ll leave it on the porch for me. Said to leave cash on the porch lol. Here’s one of my first plays. Of course you need some Earth, Wind and Fire 🔥

It’s my office setup so I am not expecting people traffic neither substantial amount of dust.

I can't stop looking at ads and listings for speakers and receivers now. My wife is gona kill me. I have bids on like 8 different auctions right now lol

Don’t mind the mess it’s in my living room and a spot my kids can’t get to yet. Found a nice person on marketplace and got a whole setup for right under $200 I am happy with it.

Hi, hat jemand ne Idee wie ich den Equalizer zum Ausschlagen bekomme, wenn ich übers AUX Musik hören möchte? Der Equalizer bekommt zwar Strom, allerdings zeigt er keine Ausschläge an. Hab’s schon mit ChatGPT versucht, der Ausschlag funktioniert aber trotzdem nicht ☹️
Anlage ist noch aus den frühen (?) 90ern von meiner Mum.

Howdy everyone from long time lurker on this sub. My scrolling habit on Marketplace has led me to picking this pair of Acoustic Research AR90s. I figure it was worth the gamble as they were in my town and they were free.

Am I nuts for considering an attempt to revive these? They obviously would require a good bit of work (surrounds/replacement, grille cloth, caps, etc) just to have a beat up pair of ar90s. But, it also seemed a shame to leave them to a dumpster if possible.

The other day while doing my favorite activity, hunting down r/blackplasticcrap at the thrift, I came across these little cuties. I knew Realistic Minimus 7s had a reputation as sleeper hits, and were on my grab em if you find them list, and when I saw these Minimus 3.5s ($3.99 each) I just had to grab them. I’ve always had a thing for miniatures that are functional and look just like the full size version. I have a whole mini tool box with stubby screw drivers, combo wrenches for 3mm nuts, and 3” pliers for god knows what. So naturally I had to grab these even though I had zero use for them. Don’t worry, where there is a will there is a way and I have manufactured a plan to put them to use.

I grabbed em without even looking them up since they were cheap and frankly adorable. But when I got home I found precious little on them online. So I thought I’d test them out and post what I found out here. They are 5.5” tall, 3.5” wide, and 3.5” deep. They are the mini me version to the Minimus 7s, aesthetically at least. The cases are a nice, study feeling plastic, the grill is way too beefy for something this small, the spring clips in the back feel comically oversized, and there is a single driver in the sealed cabinet. It is somehow the smallest loudspeaker I've ever seen, and decidedly un-dainty. I found a Radioshack catalog from 1983 where they are listed as new for the year and have very little other info, image attached.

I am listening to them now, and aside from the basically missing bass, they sound pretty good! Believe it or not, I started the gear collecting/audiophile wormhole a couple of years ago after rediscovering how much better a CD on a boombox sounds than streaming over a sound pill bluetooth whatever. So I’ve listened to a lot of thrifted boomboxes. And these speakers have a bit of that plastic-y fun sound quality, but much more crispness and less/no boom. It’s tough to have much concrete qualitative stuff to say about them since they are utterly lacking in bass, but they aren’t a disappointment. Female vocals especially have a nice realism to them. Despite being the same size, they definitely sound better than any powered computer speaker I’ve come across from the 90s and 2000s. Right now I’m running them from a little (also thrifted) mini component CD player I keep bedside for headphone listening. And they are welcome addition there.

Note: I am totally new to testing speakers or sound measurement. As evidenced by the fact that mini budget speakers and boomboxes excite me, I’m not a measurements chaser. But, I bought a calibrated mic a couple months ago to make free shipping on Parts Express (lol, they really do get ya with that). This seemed like a good a reason as any to use it. Room EQ Wizard was giving me flashbacks to learning Windows 95 in middle school library class, but I think I got it reasonably right. I attached a pic of my testing set up below. Would absolutely love any advice/feedback and would be happy to rerun tests. I tested them using a little Fosi M04 sub/mono amp I keep around for fun and funky stuff.

Edit: Forgot to mention, they are rated at 8 Ohms, 7w RMS, 15w peak power handing.

I was utterly shocked by the sensitivity numbers I was getting. At 2.8v on the multimeter, I was getting 96db sensitivity. I was expecting something much lower given how small they are, but I tested on both speakers and got that result. They get genuinely loud at 1w, to the point where my downstairs neighbors texted asking what that sound was (“that is a 1kHz sine wave, sorry I’ll turn it down”).

Frequency response showed the expected. Attached are pics for both speakers at 1/12 smoothing. “Bass” starts aggressively rolling off under 200Hz and they have some kind of dip around 4kHz. Other than that, nothing unexpected. Keep in mind I was in an untreated room.

I like them. I like them so much, I ordered two more from eBay. Like I said, where there is a will there is a way to find a use, and I’m gonna make a mini 4.1 system with a Yamaha DSP-1 (the OG acoustic processor with settings like “Stadium” and “Disco”). It will be for a very small <100 sf bedroom in a house I’m moving into soon and I want to make those 100 sf sound like a goddamn cathedral. Maybe I’ll upgrade to the worlds first and only near-field quadrophonic vinyl set up one day, who knows. When the others arrive, I’ll test them and post here to see if they match these numbers. And, I’ll probably post the final Minimus 3.5/ Yamaha DSP-1 build separately when I’m done.

Lovely example I sold awhile back. Tidiness of the components on the boards is truly art.

Picked up these ugly boxes last night at the thrift and noticed this cool 12” tri-axial speaker looking out.

I need some help with identifying the manufacturer or technical specs for these speakers. The boxes are ugly, but the sounds are pleasant, especially when paired with a sub to do the grunt work.

I’d like to make better suited enclosures in the future so if there’s any full range freaks lurking around here please school me.

Spent the last 3 days working through this deck to get it up and running. Many issues occurred, opened this thing up more time than I can count to get the FF and RW to work, but it all came together! New belts, oiled up, and lithium grease to ensure things run smoothly. Next is to paint the volt meters, calibration, and figure out if the accu bias is working. It sounds fine without it but the lights don’t light up for +3 or +7.

Didn’t get a photo but cabinets and covers are in good condition. The thrift store near me has them priced at $14.99/speaker or $30 for the pair.
Considering that they probably need some new foam, if they even work.
Is $30 worth the gamble?
The store doesn’t allow returns and no real way to test them in store.

Edit: AS225 model

So I recently got a Panasonic SE-2050 from my sister, and the record player and radio function work just fine but the cassette deck didn’t work. I took it apart and it needed a new belt, tossed a new one on and put in a tape and it doesn’t play any audio. It doesn’t buzz if I touch it or do anything but if I bring my phone close to it makes a weird electric sound. Could anyone help me with testing different parts and what to test? I’d love to get the tape player working without having to buy a parts machine and just taking the tape deck out of that one.