What is your Opponaut garage sound system?

"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond) 05/02/2020 at 19:56 • Filed to: None

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This is not mine. Dear god I have at least some priorities in order. Not many, but enough of them. But is your sound your phone? Or do you have more?

I’m tired of my phone. Big speakers would be real nice. Bluetooth as well would be nice.....my cul-de-sac of older people would love a boomin system.

Wacko > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 20:31

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At the moment mine is a Sony mini system with two detached speakers. I bought a cheap Bluetooth to headphone jack, and that’s plugged in the aux input. Gonna replace that with my old kenwood mini system that is 200w and I have a kenwood 100w sub and keep my cheap USB Bluetooth thing for it.

Boxer_4 > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 20:39

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Not mine but a friend mine’s setup - its where I work on stuff the most anyway: main computer connected to a cheap mixer that outputs to four mid-range computer speakers sets (2 speakers + sub each, all obtained for free) scattered around the area. Its very kludged together , but it works surprisingly well.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 20:47

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My garage has an ancient Aiwa all-in-one compact stereo like this one.

While I’ve been working on the storage building out back, I’ve been using a little JBL bluetooth speaker. That little thing is surprisingly loud!

Sovande > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 20:51

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I have a pair of Boston Acoustics bookshelf speakers hooked up to a 50 watt mini amp. I connect my phone for tunes and podcasts and stuff. 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:00

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My house doesn’t have a garage, and my car has the scars to prove it :(

Old-Busted-Hotness > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:16

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When my ex-neighbor moved out, he gifted me a bunch of AV gear, so I’ve got a much better system than a garage requires. Sony and Onkyo gear, don’t know the specs but more th an loud enough to piss off the new neighbors.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:17

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Thiel 2.2 louds.
ADCOM GFA-555 power amp
2000 Albums converted to pure CD-grade .WAV. No compression.
No signal path processing, straight to amplifier from SONY CODEC.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:20

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No garage...

HammerheadFistpunch > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:20

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I’ve got one of those janky old rad 3 disc cd changer deals from the late 80's with stickers all over it from my youth. Plus some leftover speakers from my old logi tech Z5500 plus an old low pass 10 inch downfire sub from yet another system.  

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:21

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I’ve got a tiny little 30watt Ch inese class-d amp with built-in blue tooth, hooked up to a pair of old Boston Acoustics satellite speakers salvaged from an old computer surround-sound system. 

The Snowman > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:24

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Some kind of alien looking LG dock with Bluetooth(father in-law Christmas gift ) . Sound quality is so so but it goes loud enough to hear well outside my shop in the back yard if there are people over and too loud inside if the doors aren’t open.

osucycler > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:25

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An old iphone 5s running sirrius/xm hooked up to a computer speaker system with an integrated sub woofer.  It works for tunes and I know when someone calls because it can receive wi fi calls to the cell phone account

dumpsterfire! > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:40

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Old Onkyo receiver and separate 5 CD changer, Boston Acoustic speakers. Basically my setup from the early 1990s.

GLiddy > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:43

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“Sound System” is being overly generous for what I have. As I recall, a fellow at a garage sale gave it to me. Its perfect as it slips in right between the two studs.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 21:55

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Ha just about the same- it’s a Panasonic  one of those blingy mini systems that were popular in the 90s (maybe still are) with 3x CD and 2x casette. Has a reasonable FM tuner which is usually on the local NPR or classical station (WFMT). Actually doesn’t sound too bad. Bought it in a thrift store years ago.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 22:24

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Two 10" coaxial drivers (normally found in front of house monitors) in cabinets made of chipboard flooring. They are driven by a Yamaha AX-590 integrated amp that I bought back in 1992 and the signal comes from a small Technics ST-Z780 AM /FM tuner from the turn of the century that I found on eBay earlier this year. There's a Pioneer six stack cartridge CD player around somewhere too...

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/02/2020 at 22:28

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You've got Theils and a GFA-555 in your garage? FAWNCAY. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/02/2020 at 22:45

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Thiel was a freakin’ genius. He and Vandersteen hit the absolute sweet spot.

The Thiels will end up in the mancave-home-theater room once the floor is down, but that’s another month, so in the meantime the speakers and amp are pointed out into the garage space.

I’ve been setting up the Shop-Office-Mancave, so each will get a nice set-up. It’s a little far afield from “cars” but I might start to post a bit on great speaker combinations I’ve found in comb’ing garage sales and Goodwill sites in the last 6-7 years as a hobby.

I found a set of these (ferrofluid dried out in tweeter) B&W 705 s at a hairdressers’ in Flintridge a couple of years ago. The were very “flat” obviously with the tweeter issue... but I tracked down a set of the original spec’d tweeters, did the install. And, wow. Magic. For under $140 all in. For the cost-and-size? They punch way above their weight class.

phenotyp > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 22:51

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a pair of 1980ish Fishers, and a pair of 1978ish McIntoshes, driven now by a Sony receiver. The Kenwood CD changer and receiver/amp have died after about 20 years.

It fills the space well enough, and the Sony has Bluetooth so I can just play from my phone, as well as my old desktop. 

shop-teacher > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 23:13

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I have a rather nice Demon receiver and 5-disc CD changer, that I inherited from my wife’s aunt. The speakers are a couple old low end Bose speakers that I got free from Circuit  City probably 20 years ago, with the purchase of a different receiver. It does the job!

Elumerere > Grindintosecond 05/02/2020 at 23:18

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I one day will have a garage. When I’m 60, probably.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > phenotyp 05/02/2020 at 23:35

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Sweet McIntosh callout!

Grindintosecond > HammerheadFistpunch 05/02/2020 at 23:50

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The z5500 stuff was really good! I have a z5300 5.1 still working great

wafflesnfalafel > Grindintosecond 05/03/2020 at 00:27

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boom box from 1986 - twin cassette decks, but it’s got an input jack.  Controls are a little oxidized/scratchy....

HammerheadFistpunch > Grindintosecond 05/03/2020 at 00:32

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My control unit died. I really liked it up until then

sn4cktimes > Grindintosecond 05/03/2020 at 01:02

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Old Yamaha amp, some rando tower speaker from the Wife’s Uncle. Phone as music source. 

phenotyp > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/03/2020 at 02:27

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They were 2 of my grandfather’s speakers. I replaced the foam on the woofers and mids after I shipped them to austin from Ohio. They were a big part of my learning, growing up. His stuff was all Mc and Nakamichi. They’re a big part of my being. That they’re still playing amazing sound every day: I think he’d be happy to hear it. Same with camera stuff. He only invested in things that were  built to last.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/03/2020 at 08:25

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I used sell B&W and Adcom (also Paradigm and Onkyo) in the late 90's early 2000's. The store was also a music and record store, so we got all kinds of customers... The local rednecks would come to buy CDs, an almost invariably make some comment like “Jesus christ, how the fuck can a stereo cost that much money?” if they had the time and could be convinced I’d grab the HDCD copy of Metallica - that album is wonderfully engineered and recorded-, go close up the listening room and throw Enter Sandman in the Adcom CD1, GFA5800, Nautilus 803s and a Paradigm Servo 15.... CRANKED. They usually left the listening room in brooding silence, often to return in following days or weeks to figure out how far they could stretch their budget. I was a good stereo salesman.

Mrs BoostAddict has sensory integration issues and music, let alone loud music, is not something she enjoys... If I lived alone and had the room I’m for sure be rocking an all-tube amplified multi-channel setup of all Magnepans... Tubes and Maggies are my jam.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > phenotyp 05/03/2020 at 09:17

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That’s awesome. It’s funny how some of these speakers have lasted— I have a set of Snell Type A speakers that the reviewers had absolutely raved about back in the day. $20 “re-foam” job and they sound like new again. Those B&W 705s are simply remarkable after fixing the ferrofluid tweeter issue.

Good gear  lasts. Those are fine pieces, really timeless.

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Grindintosecond 05/03/2020 at 10:44

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I have one of those double din cheap android stereos mounted in a box with some old 6 1/2s. It’s a 2ft cube, but wish I would have made it a little bigger so it would be comfortable to sit on.  I have a couple small lead acid batteries with a charger/ power supply and will last about 14 hours on the batteries. It’s got WiFi so it can stream music or YouTube if you forget your phone in the house.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 05/03/2020 at 11:03

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Sorry to hear about the Mrs. condition. That’s tough.

I’ve always loved Maggies— and had a set of Maggie IIIs, plus a sweet Phase Linear (Met Bob Carver at a trade show years ago, which was a thrill) all fed with classic Marantz. Nothing images quite like those Magnepans.

I had an office break-in a few years ago, had the Marantz gear and a lot of other stuff stolen— which sent me off on a quest to “figure out the great sounding equipment I could never afford before”, starting by combing the CL ads, garage sales and thrift stores. It actually was fascinating to listen and compare — and in the process figured out how epic the B&W stuff is at ANY price point. Ended up repairing those 705s, then later found a pair of 805S that needed a primary driver repair. For the size? They are amazing. Still yearn for some 801s.

For speakers that were “nutty expensive” when new, but can now be found in great condition for under $500? Those Thiel 2_2s and the Vandy 2Ci Signatures are amazing. Both, new, today would be thousands (and, well, Jim Thiel is dead, so HE ain’t keeping the dream alive anymore...) of dollars.... but, either, I could live with as my only speakers forever. Image great, nice flat response and (where the Maggies let me down) low bass down into the low 30s.

The other thing I found in my vision quest is that all these speaker guys would try to chase specs down low (looking for response down to 15-20 Hz) with a premium offering, but I always came away feeling like those compromises hurt the overall sound .  Thiel made 3.5s and 3.6s and they will get down into the 20s, but with some other compromises. I stopped looking for nice 3.5s. I’d still love a set of NHT3.3s, but those are like unicorns.

I’d also always held Snell in high regard, but it was interesting to go buy/compare and bake-off every Snell (he used a lot of tuned ports) against the Thiels or the Vandy or even DCM.... and that low frequency coloration got really annoying. So I lost respect for Snell, Polk and BA over design trade-offs. But, man B&W (especially the newer Nautilus!), Vandy and Thiel? Those speakers are all epic good— and great values in the used market... and built to last forever.

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Grindintosecond 05/03/2020 at 12:40

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I have a small klipsch BT tuner and a pair of Dayton audio bookshelf speakers. I have a pair of klipsch reference bookshelfs I was going to use, but they are too pretty for the garage lol. They are now on rear speaker duty in my living room. The sound on this setup is decent, but plenty good for the garage

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/03/2020 at 15:17

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I had a pair of IIIs as well, powered by a Jolida integrated tube amp... Had to sell ‘em all in 2008 since I was living my car... Up until recently I haven’t had the room for Maggies, and now I share a home with someone I have a hard time convincing to let me have my little 5.1 system with a Yamaha receiver, Paradigm Mini Monitors, Monitor Center, Wharfedale bipolar surrounds and my Old M&K 12" sub. If it were up to her we’d watch TV with subtitles on and the sound off... :/ (subtitles are always on)

For some reason I never got on board with Thiels... Though maybe my op inion was always colored by price vs. B&W and Paradigm... At today's used prices I might be more interested... I also just fucking love panels. Have had Apogees and Maggies and almost bought a pair of Martin Logans (before Mrs. BoostAddict said no) 

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Grindintosecond 05/04/2020 at 00:43

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ancient JVC. It used to be great, but the digital antenna seems to be getting shittier and shittier

Im thinking the tuner string is going.