Sometimes bigger is better!

Gentle reader,

Been a while since I've posted, so I thought I'd finally show the new-to-me Sony SACD/DVD player verses the newer, yet older one. Below, you can see the newer
produced but older to me Sony on top of the older produced, but newer to me
bigger Sony. They are, on top: DVP-NS755V bottom: DVP-S9000ES.
Below, you can see them from the top:
And now, below from the back:
Below is the bottom of the bigger one, the whole chassis is solid copper:
Here is a close-up of the back of the smaller one:
Note, both have the same terminals and output options, except the one above offers 5.1 channel output for surround sound SACDs and 5.1 DVDs.) Now, below is the back of the bigger one:
The scale below tells the final tale, the total weight of each. First the smaller one:
Now, the total weight of the bigger one:
It weighs more than four times the smaller one does. I mentioned in a previous post that I bought the DVP-S9000ES that I got it for $14.99, exactly 1/1000th of the original price. Quite the bargain and one of my greatest bargains.

So, if you are anywhere over the age of say, 45, you may remember when VCRs came out. They were big and heavy. The one we still have now, is maybe five years old and I can pick it up with one finger. Yet, it is full-featured and does things only the original VCR designers could only dream of. I especially like that it automatically fast forwards through commercials. You may be thinking, "Doesn't he have a DVR?" Nope, my mother gave me one she had and could not figure out, and I too could not figure it out.
Of course, we could always opt to rent the "cable" box from Verizon FIOS with one built-in, but frank quitely, watching TV is not that important to the two of us. No show that we consider "ours" and cannot miss.

Nonetheless, in the case of these SACD/DVD players, bigger and heavier equals quality of performance and output of audio. I can't speak as to the video output of the DVP-S9000ES because I've never tried a DVD in it. I bought it for one purpose, the highest audio reproduction of SACDs and CDs that I choose to play through it.

The smaller one used to be our main DVD player in the living room. Hooked with both optical cable and six individual RCA analog cables for the couple of surround SACDs that I have. However, unless I was doing something wrong, the couple of times I played surround sound SACDs with it, it did not impress me.

So there you have it. Thanks for looking!

Scott

Redid the Oak speakers

Gentle reader,

You may recall the homemade solid oak speakers I found at Salvation Army. Well, after listening to them a while, I decided I liked the way they sound AND look better than the all-black A/D/S/ tower speakers.

My one concern was the lack of deep bass. The previous post about them:
The Robb Collections: Yet MORE speakers. Foreign LPs and more....
shows them as I bought them.

I decided to take a look inside and found that the drivers (woofer and tweeter) are Radio Shack units. I looked them up on:
Index to Speaker Systems and Components and found that the woofer was only good down to 50 Hertz.

A check of the Parts Express website: Parts Express: the #1 source for audio, video & speaker building components
listed their own Dayton Brand 6 1/2" Classic woofer extended bass down to 30 Hertz and they were on sale for less than $25 each. So, I bought two and looked at tweeters.

I found on closeout a pair of Foster cast aluminum 3' by 7" horn tweeters originally $100, now only $15. Previous buyers were raving about them, so I ordered two as well. They are rated at 100 decibels at 1 watt. Now THAT is efficient! So, I'd need to use the L-pads on the back of the cabinets to balance the output with the woofers less efficient 89 decibels. Here they are:
I would need to do some creative woodworking to make these rectangles fit in a round hole!

However, upon listening to them on top of the cabinet, I felt they sounded tinny and just not right. Plus, the Radio Shack tweeters sounded really good.

Now, the Maryland fella that built these babies, used about 10 gauge wire with fairly thick individual copper strands. And a heck of a lot of solder! I had the dickens of a time de-soldering all those connections! Plus, screws alone were not enough for him. Even the crossovers (they divide the high notes for the tweeters and low notes for the woofers), were screwed and glued down with RTV silicone glue!

Since I'd also bought new heavy-duty crossovers, I had to get the old ones and all that wiring out. I destroyed the old crossovers trying to get them out! Pity as they looked like good ones.

SO, anyway. Once I had gotten all the parts and fiberglass out, then began the changes necessary to overhaul and upgrade the parts, I discovered one of the TINY wires on the old tweeter had come off the terminal. Oh, boy, this is not good. I'm talking hair-thin wiring.

I was able to fix it, but not until after ordering new Dayton Silk dome tweeters to match all the
other Dayton stuff from Parts Express. Here they are along with the Dayton woofers:
So, I get those pretty new tweeters in and decide they don't sound as good as the old ones!
Fickle, I know.

So, out they came and in go the old ones, again. But what to do with these nice new tweeters?
Since I had to remove the plastic port tubes and close those holes, I decided to put the new
tweeters there. Which explains why the tweeters in the picture above are below the woofers.

After MUCH work I get them all together and find that same old tweeter problem had cropped up again. Whew! What a job, but I succeeded at last reattaching the tiny wire again.

So, now with twice the number of tweeters, they sound great! The woofers go nice and deep. They LOOK so much better than those black towers. As you can see:
As far as the back, you may recall I adapted three-way binding posts to the old spring terminals. Since I'd disassembled the speakers in here, ( my home office, see below) I now had these nice terminal cups with expensive three-way binding posts. Since I wasn't using the L-pads he'd installed after all, I put the cups in their place.

I covered the hole for the old terminals at the bottom of the box and simply filled the holes in the plastic with black RTV glue. Boxes are nice and air-tight.
Now, I'd planned to sell the DCM Timeframe speakers shown in the previous post sometime in the future. I'd brought the black towers and the DCMs in here and tried a comparison of those two and the speakers that I rebuilt a few years ago and decided the DCMs sound MUCH better!

SO, I disassembled the speakers I've been using in here, (see: The Robb Collections: Rubberize your woofers! ) sold the parts and now the DCMs live here in my home office. They take up much less floor space and produce a great sound stage.

Maybe next time I'll finally do a post comparing the two Sony SACD/DVD players. Until then,
thanks for looking!

Scott

Yet MORE speakers. Foreign LPs and more....

Gentle reader,

I've been busy scouring the thrift stores looking for new equipment to play with and music to play.

Last weekend, I spent several hours replacing the stock screw terminals on the KLH® and ElectroVoice® speakers. They went pretty smoothly. I actually bought the parts from a real "brick and mortar" store: Radio Shack®. But, I wrote "several hours". Yes, the majority of the time was taking apart the new solid oak tower speakers. More to follow.

Below, you can see the newly crowded den/listening room.
The tall A/D/S/® tower speakers in front, are just in the photo to show the scale of the newest units which are to the left and right, and wooden.

In the corners where the A/D/S/® tower speakers normally sit are a pair of home-made tower speakers made by someone, I assume a man; but I don't know for sure, in Maryland and later donated to the Salvation Army®. How do I know he was in Maryland? He scratched his MD license number in the back of the cabinets.

They were marked $39.99. But Wednesday is 25% off, so $30. They are truly one-of-a-kind. First off, they are made of SOLID oak boards. They stand 36" tall. The front and back are are made of one-piece 3/4" by 9" boards. The sides top and bottom are 11 1/2" wide made by joining three boards. As you can see he did a fine bit of joinery.

It has always been said that speakers should be made of very dense, non-resonant wood, preferably what is called MDF: Medium Density Fiberboard. Originally particle board was used but it is more fragile than MDF and quite cheap being comprised of sawdust and glue.

However, I can see his point in using oak, aside from the obvious beauty. It is a a very heavy hardwood and dense. Plus, the woofers probably don't go deep enough to reach oaks free-air-resonance frequency.

He chose all Radio Shack® components. 6 1/2" poly woofers and 4 1/2" tweeter, L-pad on the back and spring-lever terminals. The internal wiring is not ideal because it is thick strands of copper. Very fine multiple strand wire is better for sound conduction.

As you can see, I used the double-banana three-way binding posts and had to remove the cheap terminals by breaking them off. I drilled the holes 3/4" OC in the old terminal base plates. The wood is too thick to mount them directly.

You may be thinking, "So, why did it take so long?" He used RTV Silicone rubber glue to secure/seal everything to the wood. Took a while to cut through the stuff. I wanted to see what brand drivers he used and the internal construction. PLUS, that thick wire was very reluctant to being soldered.

Here are photos of the oak speakers:
As you can see, I need to clean the fabric on the DCM speaker on the left. He made nice frames for the grille and carefully cut holes for the drivers and port. For the port, he used plain old PVC drain pipe. Here is a close-up of the drivers:
Here's the whole front:
Here's a side view, a careful look shows the joinery:
This made me think at first he used oak plywood or perhaps oak veneer. Nope, solid wood, 3/4" thick. Here's the back showing the tweeter's level pad:
As you can see, he screwed the back on, no doubt using RTV as well, or wood glue, maybe. Here's the three-way binding, double-banana post attached to the original terminal plate:
Here, again is the photo of the two new speakers:
The one on the left is made by DCM® and in the USA. http://www.dcmspeakers.com/ DCM® started in 1974 (the year I graduated High School) introduced their TimeWindow® speaker to the world which used transmission line technology to boost the Bass from small woofers. Later they created the TimeFrame® speaker. Same technology, but arranged differently. These are TF275 models which were made in the late 1980's to early 1990's. The sold for $400 a pair. They use coaxial drivers. 6" woofer with a tweeter mounted in the center of the front. England's Tannoy is most famous for using coaxial drivers. Almost all after-market car speakers are coaxial.

The fabric grille covers all sides and wraps around under the top and bottom plates which are also oak. NO seam can I find. I assume it is machine knit like a sleeve and slid over the speaker body. It prevents one from seeing the drivers but also protects them. Here is the side view:
Quite skinny. Here's the rear terminal cup. Note double bananas which I love. These come with spring terminals, which I hate, but, they are 3/4" spaced AND made to accept double bananas!
So, how do these two sets of speakers sound? Great! They both don't go real deep, but that is due to the small woofers. Great sound stage from both. Both are over 90 dB efficient which is nice.

When I get new speakers, I invariably get torn over keep or sell. For instance, I loved my first set of DCM® speakers, the huge KX-12s:
They were in DCM®'s words: "modified transmission line". 12" woofers, 6' mid-range and small Magnavox® horn tweeters. Super efficient at 99 dB at one watt. Great Bass, but when the A/D/S/® came along, they didn't sound so good.

I've been having fun pasting ® all over the place. ANYway, I will continue to listen to them for a while then decide which to keep and which to sell. As for the oak ones, I could replace the woofers and tweeters with better ones, the crossover and wiring and a proper port to match the new drivers. Parts Express® (tee hee!) has a nice 6 1/2" woofer that reaches all the way down to 30 Hertz, the current ones only reach 50 Hertz.

I'll think about it. Now, for the other thing, the foreign LPs I found:
From the left, the first four are from Columbia: Score from The Godfather or in this case el Padrino, two Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and a Henry Mancini. In the middle on the Melodia label and made in the USSR is some Glazunov ballet music. Next are two Mahler symphonies from South Africa.

I have a number of foreign release Herb Alpert LPs and CDs. They also had a Columbian copy of Herb's Christmas album but inside was a different record. I hate that!

Next time, I'm going to do the promised comparison of the two Sony DVD/SACD players.

Thanks for looking,

Scott

Fantasy Symphonic Concert Season Challenge by Stereophile Magazine

Gentle Reader,

John Marks of Stereophile Magazine challenged the readers to send in their Fantasy Symphonic Concert Season for a competition. The challenge was to NOT use ANY of
BACH, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, HANDEL, HAYDN, MAHLER, MENDELSSOHN,
MOZART, SCHUBERT, STRAVINSKY, TCHAIKOVSKY OR WAGNER.

The concerts will be shown on the Stereophile web site in the future. Here's mine:

Prince William Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Robert Scott MacFarlane

Presents:

A Season of Lesser Known Works

Concert 1

A Night of Leroy Anderson

Leroy Anderson Blue Tango, Bugler's Holiday, The First Day of Spring, Sandpaper Ballet, The Phantom Regiment, Lady in Waiting (from the musical Goldilocks), Saraband, Sleigh Ride, The Girl in Satin, The Typewriter, The Waltzing Cat, Plink, Plank, Plunk!, Pyramid Dance, The Syncopated Clock, Belle of The Ball, Forgotten Dreams, China Doll, Fiddle Faddle, and A Trumpeter's Lullaby.

Concert 2

Claude Debussy Images for Orchestra William Boyce Eight Symphonies: #1 in B Flat Major, #2 in A Major, #3 in C Major, #4 in F Major, #5 in D Major, #6 in F Major, #7 in B Flat, and #8 in D minor. Leos Janacek Operatic Orchestral Suites

Concert 3

Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Suite from On the Waterfront Lou Harrison Symphony On G Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony Number 5 in D Major Anton Bruckner Symphony Number 9 in D minor

Concert 4

Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings, Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance Frederick Delius Florida Suite Victor Herbert Pan Americana, American Fantasy Jan Sibelius Symphony Number 1 in E minor

Concert 5

Aaron Copland El Salon Mexico, Danzon Cubano, Latin American Sketches, Music for a Great City, Music for the Theater, Piano Concerto Manual De Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain Darius Milhaud Suite Provencale, Saudes Do Brasil Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony Number 5 in D minor

Concert 6

Anton Webern Im Sommerwind, Eleven Orchestral Pieces Henryk Gorecki Symphony Number 3 Erich Wolfgang Korngold Symphony in F Sharp Richard Strauss Sinfonia Domestica

Concert 7

Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes Antonin Dvorak Legends, Symphonic Poems Sergei Rachmaninov Symphony Number 1 in D Minor

Concert 8

Max Bruch Scottish Fantasy, Opus 46, Symphony Number 3 in E Major Paul Hindemith Symphony: Mathis Der Maler Percy Grainger Faerae Island Manuel M. Ponce Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra

Concert 9

Frederick Chopin Piano Concerto Number 1 in E Minor George Gerswin Symphony for Blues, Concerto in F Major Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor Aram Khackaturian Piano Concerto

Concert 10

Georges Bizet Symphony Number 1 in C Charles Ives Symphony Number 2 Carl Nielson Symphony Number 4

Concert 11

Richard Rodgers Waltzes, March of the Siamese Children, The Carousel Waltz, Slaughter in Tenth Avenue, Symphonic Suite from Oklahoma, Symphonic Suite from South Pacific Arnold Schoenberg Transfigured Night Dmitri Kabalevshy Colas Breugnon Suite, Opus 24

Concert 12

Muzio Clementi Four Symphonies #1 in C Major, #2 in D Major, #3 in G Major, and #4 in D Major Virgil Thomson Symphony Number 2, Symphony Number 3 Alexander Glazunov Symphony Number 5 Candelario Huizar Images

Concert 13

Camille Saint-Seans Symphony Number 3 “Organ” Joseph Jongen Symphonic Concertante for Organ & Orchestra Edward Elgar Symphony Number 1 in A Flat Major Opus 55 Manuel M. Ponce Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra

Concert 14

Serge Prokofiev Symphony Number 5 Rossini-Respighi La Boutique Fantasique Jose Pablo Moncayo Huapango Erik Satie Parade, Socrate Anton Rubinstein Symphony Number 5 in C Minor

No pictures this time.

Thanks for reading!

Scott

Decorative sound absorbtion and new music. Plus the one that got away.

Gentle reader,

I made my usual Wednesday-after-work stop at the Woodbridge Salvation Army. No exciting electronics. There was a nicely homemade pair of tower speakers. However, I didn't try them out. The maker did a nice job and put a lot of effort into making them
look as nice as he/she could. But they wanted $40 for them and the components didn't look that impressive. If they are still there next week, I may give them a listen.

I came away with thirteen LPs and seven CDs. However, on the way out, I spied the display of area rugs they have hanging in the front corner of the store. I Looked through them quickly and decided one in particular would fit and look great in the
den. Wednesdays are 25% off, and I did have the Ranger P/U, but it was pouring rain.

I told Nancy about it later and since she would be off the next day, we agreed to meet there after I got off work.

Unbeknownst to me, she'd beaten me there by a couple of minutes but veered into Mom's Antiques next door. She'd texted me that she was "Here" but I didn't see it
until about half an hour later when I pulled out the phone to call her. I did so and asked, "Where's 'here'?" She told me and said she'd be there soon.

In the intervening time, I'd looked through the LPs again, meeting a young fella'
who had a couple Beatles LPS in his hand and asked my opinion as to their value.
One was Revolver and it being a mono version and in good shape, I told him it was easily worth at least ten or fifteen dollars. He wanted to get it for a friend with, "7000 albums" but couldn't get him on the phone. I told him it was 99 cents, so what could
he lose. He kept asking me if I wanted it, being he found it first, I told him no.
The other Beatles album was LOVE SONGS one neither of us had heard of. It was from 1977, so after their break-up. Nice shape with leather-embossed cover, two LPs and the book with lyrics, etc. still there and also in great shape.

He took off happily with Revolver and I started looking. I had LOVE SONGS as one to buy and then found HELP! also in mono and great shape. "Cool." I found some other keepers and proceeded up front to look through the CDs. Someone had donated a number of Jazz CDs which I snatched up. I also found two Edie Brickell CDS; Picture Perfect Morning from 1994 and Volcano from 2005. I have the LP of her with the New Bohemians, on which she sings What I Am, but that is all I ever heard from her. One
is pop/rock and good, the other leans toward country, but still quite listenable.

The Jazz CDs are all multi-disc sets: From 1989 classicjazz (sic) Jazz Legends. It has two CDs in the normal-sized jewel case. A total of 30 cuts from the '30's to the '70's.
I liked most of them. Next, and I want to research these as they seem to be from a course in Jazz: JaZZ (sic) Eighth Edition Tanner Megill Gerow. 39 cuts and "Demonstrations 40-48". Which are snippets of classic Jazz trumpet music. No
book in the double sized jewel case. Thus the desire to know more.....

Last from Pulse Records is THE WHITE BOX of JAZZ. Four CDs each in a jewel case with eleven cuts on each. I am more than halfway through and have YET to find a cut that I don't like.

The reason I emphasized "don't" above is because try as I do, I find it hard to "get" what I call traditional Jazz. Oh, I have a number of LPs and CDs of the classics, Miles Davis, Lioneel Hampton, John Coletrain, many more. I listen, really listen, but sometimes I just shake my head. And it's not 'cuz I'm white, there are a lot of non-blacks that love Jazz. I DO like "Smooth Jazz" very much and have hundreds of titles and artists works. Great music, all.

I grew up surrounded by music. Both Mom and Dad loved it and it was almost always playing. Mom played the trumpet as a child and I tried it as a kid, her trumpet. But, I had no desire to practice. Dad played the guitar and sang, both well. Jim, my brother, inherited musical talent for instruments and Judy, my sister, is a great singer. I can whistle like a pro, and I suppose I can carry a tune singing. But that's it.

However, in my recent desire to LEARN more, I have taken up CD college courses as produced by The Teaching Company The Great Courses

I started with How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition wonderfully taught by Professor Robert Greenberg. He knows music and is very funny. It's 48 45 minute courses. After a while, I became overwhelmed and stopped.

Taking a break by listening to Science and Religion by Professor Lawrence M. Principe.

Then I started Understanding the Fundamentals of Music also by Professor Robert Greenberg. Again, I find myself overwhelmed. He anticipates that and tells the student that to fully grasp a lot of what he's trying to teach may require re-listening a couple of more times.

Other courses I have are: Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion by Professor Bill Messenger. Ahead await: The Apostle Paul by Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, and:
A History of Hitler's Empire, 2nd Edition by Professor Thomas Childers.

If you have a desire to learn and have a 30 to 45 minute commute, these courses are a fantastic way to learn. They are very reasonably priced as well. Also most are available as DVDs usually for the same price. Some, naturally are only on DVD because it's hard to "hear" a painting or a planet or what have you.

BACK to music buys. I also found a bunch of mint LPs from Hindsight Records. From the late '70's. There are almost 300 of them, it turns out. Here is a list on line:
Big Band Library: "Collectors' Checklist: Hindsight Records LPs"

They are called "The Uncollected". All are "Previously Unreleased Material" from "The Original For Radio Only Recordings" I only have eleven of them, but it seems to me a great way to collect a LOT of big band music of famous and lesser known bands and singers. As soon as these Jazz CDs are over, I'll start listening to these LPs.

So, BACK to rugs. Nancy and I started looking through them, and I showed her the one I wanted. She knows things like this and professed that the one I'd chosen was extremely well made and must have cost well over $1000 when new. We then picked out one for the living room and one for the family room. Bekka stated we, "are now officially grandparents, because you are putting rugs over rugs." I pointed out we were putting rugs over carpeting. Each was well less than $100.

So, here is the one in the den:
Here's another view:
Isn't that gorgeous? The one in the family room is also Eastern. One can't call them "Oriental" because that is politically incorrect. Most of that genre of rug came from what is now called Iran. Where this one came from, I have no clue. No label or marking of any kind on the bottom. The one in the living room is more modern and matches the furniture and fits the space perfectly.

Here's the cover of HELP!
According to "the book", this album is "worth" $150. Revolver is "worth" $200. Howyever, (a Nancy word, I love it!) a check on eBay shows plenty of mono Beatles LPs of all the titles for less than $10. The UK version was on the Parlaphone label and
HELP! was in plain black text with no dramatic letters as above. So, perhaps a mint copy of that might be worth a lot more.

So, that's it for now. Today was laundry day. Nancy's working ten hours, so won't be home until after eight. Now, to photograph next week's eBay stuff...............

Thanks for looking,

Scott

Found some photos of my early stereos

Gentle reader,

Yes, I JUST published another post a few minutes ago, but I've been having fun looking at pictures today. So, I wanted to post these.

The picture at the top of the page is later in time than this one below:
This image shows one of the Dynaco A-25 speakers I'd had since 1976. The stereo above has the Dynaco PAT-5 pre-amp that I built from a kit in 1976. It's on the left-bottom. On top is the matching FM-5 tuner. Above that is a turntable, but heck if I can remember which make/model. To the right is two cassette decks on top of a large Japanese integrated amp that I was using as a power amp.
Here is a closer look. Still can't tell who made the amp or cassette decks. I think the top one is a SHARP and it was "Computer Controlled". Ooooh! Yes, it is a SHARP.
Above is from a small Polaroid photo showing Leah-the-cat coming out from behind an AKAI reel-to-reel deck I had at one point. I bought and sold a number of r2r decks. I can't recall what that little unit is she's squeezing over. Nor, do I know what make/model are the units above the r2r deck.
Above is the same photo as the top of the page. Note, the PAT-5 pre-amp is gone. One channel stopped working. I was now using the integrated amp wholly. Note a new CD player below the tuner. My first one! This was all prior to marrying Nancy.
Several years later, note another PAT-5 pre-amp. I had a total of three plus an "Audio-by-Van Alstine" model PAT-5 that I should have kept! JVC turntable on top. I can't tell what the black units are, but at least one is a CD-player. Below them is a cassette deck. Below that is an equalizer and at the bottom is a Dynaco Stereo 120 modified to a Dual-mono status. Double everything! Talk about a heavy beast!

I sold that rack to a woman that was making a recording studio in her house.

Thanks for looking!

Scott

Gathering things for January when I go back on eBay

Gentle reader,

It's been a while since I posted. I've been finding bargains and gathering them for eBay.
As you can see, it's quite a bit of stuff! Some you've seen in previous posts. Speakers on top are the Canadian-made Paradigms that I replaced the tweeters in.

Below them are the UK-made Spendor version of the BBC's LS3/5A speakers. While they sound phenomenal, when I saw what they are fetching on eBay, $ signs came to my eyes.

To the left of the Spendors is what was called a "Midi" stereo. A set of Mistubishi components: Tuner: DA-F41P, integrated amp: DA-U41P, and cassette deck: DT-41P. Not listed in my Orion guide. But mid-'80's. Quality stuff.

Below them is the JVC cassette deck I bought to use after sending my Denon 3-head off to a new home.

I found a TEAC V-95RX at The Village thrift store for $15. Made in 1981-82 and sold new for $625! Yikes! Very advanced for it's day. Soft-touch solenoid controls. Walnut case. Pretty cool.

I will feature the TEAC and the Sony SACD (DVP-S9000ES) player I found for $14.99 (plus a Panasonic Blu-Ray player for $19.99) at Salvation Army in a future post. BTW, that price for the Sony is 1000th of the original price!

The Panasonic replaces the Sony DVD-SACD (DVP-NS775V) player in the living room, and an OPPO DVD player was added to the living room TV set-up as well.

The Sony DVP-S9000ES retailed for $1,500 when it came out ten years ago. It was the latest Audiophile SACD player from Sony, their first model sold for $5,000, the next for $,3,500 to this one, they added DVD playback and a lower price.

Below that is the DENON DVD-2910 that the Sony DVP-S9000ES replaces. The DENON has served me well, but the Sony just outshines it.

Below the JVC is another Pioneer SX-750 receiver. Great shape and works fine. Second one I've found at thrift stores.

At the bottom of the stack on the left is that great Sansui AU-717 integrated amp.

Next on the right, top of the stack, and I may not sell it, is the Insignia HD-Radio tuner. It really requires the roof antenna to pull in the stations and frank-quitely,
I can listen to any station right here on the computer.

Below that is the damaged-in-transit Sansui Tuner and integrated amp.
I will try and fix the latter if I can.

At the bottom on the right is a neat Yamaha R-700 receiver from the early 1980's. Great shape and puts out 50 watts-per-channel. Sounds great.
Above, you can see the new KLH-24 speakers sitting atop the Electro-Voice models. They are also not listed in Orion. Nor were the model 20's I bought a while back. Similar to the larger and very popular model 17s. These have a cone tweeter and 8" woofer. "Acoustic-suspension" speakers as most KLH models were then. Fantastic sound!
Real walnut veneer as most speakers were back in the day. No cheap foam surrounds for the woofers either. They were made to last and based on the condition, well cared for. They and the Pioneer were a set at Salvation Army for $34.99 less the 25% Wednesday discount.

I look forward to the post-Christmas donations rolling in!

Thanks for looking!

Scott