That is a Yamaha 6 channel receiver from 2003, with a ton of inputs/outputs. But because 2003, component, svideo, composite in sort of decreasing order. And of course optical everything.
You may notice it’s paired with stacks of cassettes and a cassette player/recorder.
If we zoom out further its paired with a set of MTX AAL-1240s. Which did not exist in 2003 and I think don’t suck? From googling. And trying. They get loud. IDK if they are good but they were not there in 2003.
There’s also a 5 disc component dvd player and a pile of CDs. But the Blu-ray player COULD do that. So haven’t gone there yet… Why is it here?
Well… I bought that receiver for my dad with part of the money from my graduation and part of the money from the car we fixed/he sold me so I could have a job in highschool. And his old receiver made his old speakers crackle when you cranked the x-wings diving on the death star in a new hope? So I naturally thought that was an appropriate thank you for Father’s Day after graduation.
I guess 20 years later before he passed away this spring he wanted me have it back. It works. Very well. Optical input for Dolby digital is still valid. The metro and the expedition still only have cassette decks built in. Somewhere in those tapes are Ray Stevens, C.W. Mcall, Jonny Horton and more normal country/oldies…
@PooltoyWolf not entirely sure what this is but sure lol. It wasa good fathers day sale 20 years ago.
Oddly right when HDMI was first coming out. Whoops. I don’t think there was anything really on the market that wasn’t super expensive then though. But with optical out on TV’s eh. She still works
@PooltoyWolf wasnt sure if it was a meme or something with the brofist lol. But the damn thing still cranks 20 years later, I spent a lot of time on reviews/hunting etc. In 2003
That being said only receiver I ever bought. Maybe it’s normal? I still like it. Might need to get a center channel and a sub just for fun
@unksol Johnny Horton is from my neck of the woods, and he’s buried at the cemetery just down the road from me.
Nice vintage stuff, I had some older stuff from my grandfather’s house that was actually probably the 80s at it’s newest but I let it all go. Sound became more a thing you have wherever than an experience to set up a room for somewhere along the line for me, so now I just have a Klipsch 2.1 set on my computer, soundbar on the TV, actually do have an old 2000 era Sony bookshelf style stereo in my shop, and then way too many Bluetooth speakers from this shady website I keep going to.
@PooltoyWolf I remember the Trinitrons. They were nice. My NES disappeared at some point and my sister’s apparently got dibs on the Ataris although supposedly there’s a spare somewhere. Those were the only consoles we had when I was a kid from garage sales. Then I built a PC.
I’ve never gotten good at those dual stick controls
@unksol They still look excellent for analog SD and ED resolution gaming, though modern consoles do need proper HD to look their best. I’ve got a tiny little 9-inch Trinitron that I sometimes play SNES on and it amazes me how sharp it looks at that small size.
@PooltoyWolf lol it’s big enough if you sit at the distance of the original controllers cord. We used to play NES on a 10 inch black and white in our room so. Yours is def better.
I need to have some kids to explain how good they have it lol
@unksol I once tried (and mostly succeeded) playing Donkey Kong 64 on a black & white Zenith I rescued from an abandoned motel. Being that DK64 is a very color-oriented game, I was surprised I did so well!
@PooltoyWolf I helped move one of my friends out of his upstairs apartment with a huge Sony tube TV similar to that. When we got it to his new house I told him never again. We almost broke the TV and killed ourselves getting it down the stairs but somehow we and it both survived several failed attempts plus our eventual plan of sliding it down atop some cardboard boxes (I was attempting to hold onto this beast below myself from the top, a feat that defies several laws of physics). I think he left it in that house when he finally moved again many years later.
Great picture, though, and it would seriously rule for retro gaming, but I’d only want one if I never had to move it
@djslack Thank the gods I live in a single floor house lmao! I shudder to think how anyone would get one of these units up a flight of stairs, let alone eventually back down! Mine has moved exactly one time since I bought it around 2010, from one side to the other of the same room.
@djslack I’ll see your TV and raise you a 6-foot upright grand piano that I got roped into being on the downstairs end of for a move from a second-floor apartment to a house. I did not know I could actually do that task without getting killed, until I had to. (I am 100% certain that I could not repeat it today. I was almost 40 years younger then.)
I’ve got a Denon 7.2 receiver with Infinity satellites and a pair of Atmos speakers. Couldn’t even tell you what my subwoofer is. I’ve replaced it once or twice. It can shake the house though. Last year I added a Fluance RT85 Reference turntable. It’s pretty sexy.
@capnjb looks sexy lol. there is in theory a turntable if my mom remembered to collect it before they closed on her house. Also old school, nothing that fancy. Not that I have any vynyl anyway.
People totally listen to cassettes for their warmth right?
This is just some nostalgia/pick out some good tapes to put in the cars I guess as far as the tape player.
@PooltoyWolf Yeah, I love it too. They also make these in black and white, but I thought going with a bamboo plinth (that’s a fun word!) would make the clear platter really stand out. It does. And this thing is heavy… almost 16lbs if I remember correctly.
My better-half. (Seriously, even with her limitations you would rather meet her than me) is Hard of Hearing. Therefore. . . we don’t own any crazy sound equipment.
Since opposites attract, I have been told I have exceptional hearing. I am not musically inclined, but I can sit down in a crowded restaurant and above all the cackle, I can pretty much recite verbatim whatever I wanted my ears to pick up and filter out.
TL;DR: Absolute trash… but I would be curious to hear a great one in person. Yes, I have been to orchestras, IMAX, Dolby, etc. And the do make a difference.
@KNmeh7 I have a similar skillset. In my youth I ran restaurants for about 5 years. I could walk through my restaurant and hear distinct conversations over the din of the evening and figure out if people needed anything or what have you. I do enjoy music quite a bit and do appreciate a well put together system. I’m not an audiophile, but I’d say I’m audiophile-adjacent
I’ve got a Triangle 5.1 system (with a Klipsch 12" wireless sub as the .1). Saw these come across Slickdeals and fell in love with the color that matched my console, and Samsung’s “teak” frame upgrade. Sounds great!
@troy That’s a really clean set up. Capnjb approved! I’m a big fan of Klipsch, never had one of their subs though (outside of a 5.1 PC speaker setup… I was sad when that blew out). I really like the brightness of their tweeters.
@Kidsandliz Thank you! That’s my default picture I have set on the Samsung Frame TV; they have lots of others and you can pay a monthly subscription for more… but I’m too cheap for that
@capnjb thank you Cap’n! I also love Klipsch and use their ProMedia 2.1 for my PC… been thinking of upgrading to their Heritage line but it’s quite pricey. I’m hopeful we can offer some Klipsch goodies on here at some point… it’s been a whole 6 and a half years!
@troy Heh, many moons ago, I had the Promedia 5.1 setup, loved it so I got my wife the 2.1 setup. We were living in an apartment at the time and I’m sure our long evenings of playing Everquest were enjoyed by all our neighbors
@troy Gorgeous setup! Can you still load your own photos on the Frame or did they do away with that in later versions? I have an older one and a lovely Mehtizen whose name is escaping me at the moment hooked me up with with a ton of art from https://artsandculture.google.com/ so I’ve got a fine art rotation in play.
I added a Yamaha sound bar for the TV, but most of my listening is done on the old Win7 system with its venerable Cambridge Sound Works speakers; left, right, and subwoofer. My needs are met.
@werehatrack I just cranked the Logitech pc or a JBL Bluetooth speaker now and then. Not sure I would have ever bought a “standard” receiver for this room. But. You know. It’s here. It’s a little bit of dad. Not that he was a audiophile either. Its fun to crank it and watch the cats
Yamaha receiver and a 5.1 speaker setup for the projector/roku/BD player setup in the den.
Kindle going to the transmitter for a set of 6 AR wireless speakers for playing Pandora/Amazon music on thru the rest of the house.
Sony receiver/amp from the mid 1990s. The Sony cassette player/recorder is long since dead. Sony 5-disk CD player still works great. Bose bookshelf speakers. Bang and Olufson turntable that my wife bought before we met.
Its sad how rarely we turn it on. We do not feed the TV audio through it because the Toshiba 46" had decent enough sound with the simple addition of a subwoofer to fill out the lows. My wife has decent speakers connected to her Macbook so for streaming online music they are good enough.
@duodec I don’t really plan to feed the TV through it all the time either. But the optical return channel works. For music and maybe movies might be fun
The tv speakers make noises that I can understand so… Ya know. It’s fine
too many to list, just keep buying and building.
home theater in basement: bose lifestyle, surround 5.1 circa 2000
it ain’t bragging if it’s true, lol
This is my… New to me. Sort of set up.
That is a Yamaha 6 channel receiver from 2003, with a ton of inputs/outputs. But because 2003, component, svideo, composite in sort of decreasing order. And of course optical everything.
You may notice it’s paired with stacks of cassettes and a cassette player/recorder.
If we zoom out further its paired with a set of MTX AAL-1240s. Which did not exist in 2003 and I think don’t suck? From googling. And trying. They get loud. IDK if they are good but they were not there in 2003.
There’s also a 5 disc component dvd player and a pile of CDs. But the Blu-ray player COULD do that. So haven’t gone there yet… Why is it here?
Well… I bought that receiver for my dad with part of the money from my graduation and part of the money from the car we fixed/he sold me so I could have a job in highschool. And his old receiver made his old speakers crackle when you cranked the x-wings diving on the death star in a new hope? So I naturally thought that was an appropriate thank you for Father’s Day after graduation.
I guess 20 years later before he passed away this spring he wanted me have it back. It works. Very well. Optical input for Dolby digital is still valid. The metro and the expedition still only have cassette decks built in. Somewhere in those tapes are Ray Stevens, C.W. Mcall, Jonny Horton and more normal country/oldies…
@unksol Yamaha! -brofist-
@PooltoyWolf not entirely sure what this is but sure lol. It wasa good fathers day sale 20 years ago.
Oddly right when HDMI was first coming out. Whoops. I don’t think there was anything really on the market that wasn’t super expensive then though. But with optical out on TV’s eh. She still works
@unksol Yamaha makes great equipment. Most of my first system was made by them, and I still swear by their stuff.
@PooltoyWolf wasnt sure if it was a meme or something with the brofist lol. But the damn thing still cranks 20 years later, I spent a lot of time on reviews/hunting etc. In 2003
That being said only receiver I ever bought. Maybe it’s normal? I still like it. Might need to get a center channel and a sub just for fun
@unksol Oh sorry lol, -brofist- basically is a sign of agreement on a subject! Haha
@unksol Johnny Horton is from my neck of the woods, and he’s buried at the cemetery just down the road from me.
Nice vintage stuff, I had some older stuff from my grandfather’s house that was actually probably the 80s at it’s newest but I let it all go. Sound became more a thing you have wherever than an experience to set up a room for somewhere along the line for me, so now I just have a Klipsch 2.1 set on my computer, soundbar on the TV, actually do have an old 2000 era Sony bookshelf style stereo in my shop, and then way too many Bluetooth speakers from this shady website I keep going to.
@djslack i mean facts aside. Artistic license I guess
/youtube we’ve gotta sink the bismarck
I have a few rigs. Here’s one of them. The TV is a 40-inch Sony Trinitron CRT that weighs about 300 pounds.
@PooltoyWolf I remember the Trinitrons. They were nice. My NES disappeared at some point and my sister’s apparently got dibs on the Ataris although supposedly there’s a spare somewhere. Those were the only consoles we had when I was a kid from garage sales. Then I built a PC.
I’ve never gotten good at those dual stick controls
@unksol They still look excellent for analog SD and ED resolution gaming, though modern consoles do need proper HD to look their best. I’ve got a tiny little 9-inch Trinitron that I sometimes play SNES on and it amazes me how sharp it looks at that small size.
@PooltoyWolf lol it’s big enough if you sit at the distance of the original controllers cord. We used to play NES on a 10 inch black and white in our room so. Yours is def better.
I need to have some kids to explain how good they have it lol
@unksol I once tried (and mostly succeeded) playing Donkey Kong 64 on a black & white Zenith I rescued from an abandoned motel. Being that DK64 is a very color-oriented game, I was surprised I did so well!
@PooltoyWolf I helped move one of my friends out of his upstairs apartment with a huge Sony tube TV similar to that. When we got it to his new house I told him never again. We almost broke the TV and killed ourselves getting it down the stairs but somehow we and it both survived several failed attempts plus our eventual plan of sliding it down atop some cardboard boxes (I was attempting to hold onto this beast below myself from the top, a feat that defies several laws of physics). I think he left it in that house when he finally moved again many years later.
Great picture, though, and it would seriously rule for retro gaming, but I’d only want one if I never had to move it
@djslack Thank the gods I live in a single floor house lmao! I shudder to think how anyone would get one of these units up a flight of stairs, let alone eventually back down! Mine has moved exactly one time since I bought it around 2010, from one side to the other of the same room.
@djslack I’ll see your TV and raise you a 6-foot upright grand piano that I got roped into being on the downstairs end of for a move from a second-floor apartment to a house. I did not know I could actually do that task without getting killed, until I had to. (I am 100% certain that I could not repeat it today. I was almost 40 years younger then.)
I’ve got a Denon 7.2 receiver with Infinity satellites and a pair of Atmos speakers. Couldn’t even tell you what my subwoofer is. I’ve replaced it once or twice. It can shake the house though. Last year I added a Fluance RT85 Reference turntable. It’s pretty sexy.
@capnjb looks sexy lol. there is in theory a turntable if my mom remembered to collect it before they closed on her house. Also old school, nothing that fancy. Not that I have any vynyl anyway.
People totally listen to cassettes for their warmth right?
This is just some nostalgia/pick out some good tapes to put in the cars I guess as far as the tape player.
@unksol Currently spinning
@capnjb @unksol is that an analog turntable, if that’s the term, or does it output on USB?
i have a JVC turntable from the early 80’s in a box somewhere, and a dual deck cassette, for copying cassettes, of course.
@capnjb That transparent platter is sick, I love it!
@PooltoyWolf Yeah, I love it too. They also make these in black and white, but I thought going with a bamboo plinth (that’s a fun word!) would make the clear platter really stand out. It does. And this thing is heavy… almost 16lbs if I remember correctly.
@capnjb Very nice!
My better-half. (Seriously, even with her limitations you would rather meet her than me) is Hard of Hearing. Therefore. . . we don’t own any crazy sound equipment.
Since opposites attract, I have been told I have exceptional hearing. I am not musically inclined, but I can sit down in a crowded restaurant and above all the cackle, I can pretty much recite verbatim whatever I wanted my ears to pick up and filter out.
TL;DR: Absolute trash… but I would be curious to hear a great one in person. Yes, I have been to orchestras, IMAX, Dolby, etc. And the do make a difference.
@KNmeh7 I have a similar skillset. In my youth I ran restaurants for about 5 years. I could walk through my restaurant and hear distinct conversations over the din of the evening and figure out if people needed anything or what have you. I do enjoy music quite a bit and do appreciate a well put together system. I’m not an audiophile, but I’d say I’m audiophile-adjacent
I’ve got a Triangle 5.1 system (with a Klipsch 12" wireless sub as the .1). Saw these come across Slickdeals and fell in love with the color that matched my console, and Samsung’s “teak” frame upgrade. Sounds great!
@troy So I am bad. I noticed the picture you have over all that first - I like it!
@troy That’s a really clean set up. Capnjb approved!
I’m a big fan of Klipsch, never had one of their subs though (outside of a 5.1 PC speaker setup… I was sad when that blew out). I really like the brightness of their tweeters.
@Kidsandliz Thank you! That’s my default picture I have set on the Samsung Frame TV; they have lots of others and you can pay a monthly subscription for more… but I’m too cheap for that
@capnjb thank you Cap’n! I also love Klipsch and use their ProMedia 2.1 for my PC… been thinking of upgrading to their Heritage line but it’s quite pricey. I’m hopeful we can offer some Klipsch goodies on here at some point… it’s been a whole 6 and a half years!
@troy Heh, many moons ago, I had the Promedia 5.1 setup, loved it so I got my wife the 2.1 setup. We were living in an apartment at the time and I’m sure our long evenings of playing Everquest were enjoyed by all our neighbors
@troy Gorgeous setup! Can you still load your own photos on the Frame or did they do away with that in later versions? I have an older one and a lovely Mehtizen whose name is escaping me at the moment hooked me up with with a ton of art from https://artsandculture.google.com/ so I’ve got a fine art rotation in play.
I added a Yamaha sound bar for the TV, but most of my listening is done on the old Win7 system with its venerable Cambridge Sound Works speakers; left, right, and subwoofer. My needs are met.
@werehatrack I just cranked the Logitech pc or a JBL Bluetooth speaker now and then. Not sure I would have ever bought a “standard” receiver for this room. But. You know. It’s here. It’s a little bit of dad. Not that he was a audiophile either. Its fun to crank it and watch the cats
Yamaha receiver and a 5.1 speaker setup for the projector/roku/BD player setup in the den.
Kindle going to the transmitter for a set of 6 AR wireless speakers for playing Pandora/Amazon music on thru the rest of the house.
Sony receiver/amp from the mid 1990s. The Sony cassette player/recorder is long since dead. Sony 5-disk CD player still works great. Bose bookshelf speakers. Bang and Olufson turntable that my wife bought before we met.
Its sad how rarely we turn it on. We do not feed the TV audio through it because the Toshiba 46" had decent enough sound with the simple addition of a subwoofer to fill out the lows. My wife has decent speakers connected to her Macbook so for streaming online music they are good enough.
@duodec I don’t really plan to feed the TV through it all the time either. But the optical return channel works. For music and maybe movies might be fun
The tv speakers make noises that I can understand so… Ya know. It’s fine