I guess you might call me a less than pure audiophile. Way long post but stick with me tothe end.
I like building systems mostly from what I find on the curb or at garage sales. I think 70's and early 80's stuff tends to sound best to me.
System in the main floor office, with remote speakers in adjacent kitchen.
early 80's Realistic System 11 30W receiver. Some capacitors replaced.
2 sets of Minimum 7 acoustic suspension speakers.
Amp has a switch to optimize for these speakers. Direct drive turntable, CD player.
Main living room.
late '00s Yammy AV receiver. Unsure of watts. Enough. Nice direct drive turntable. HDMI audio from DVD player.
Infinity acoustic suspension speakers as the main 2. Nice planar tweeters. New caps in the cross overs.
Paradigm 2 way ported speakers as back pair. Minumis 7 as center.
Basement-
late '10s Denon AV receiver. Unsure of watts. Enough. Direct drive turntable. HDMI audio from DVD player.
Realistic speakers as the main 2. Mid 70's era. Heavy cases, dual bass drivers. Rebuilt crossover caps and new flex wire to the bass cones.
No glam Telefunken back pair on stands. No name 3 way center over TV screen.
Laundry room/darkroom
30W JVC receiver and a DVD player for playing CD's.
Driving a pair of Minimus 7 speakers.
Garage-
Luxman 40W receiver.
Speakers in garage, and second 60W PA amp that takes radio or bluetooth feed from receiver and feeds a 70V PA amp.
That drives 7 small full range ( as full range as a long throw 4" woofer gets) speakers set on 4' high posts around the patio.
So you can chill to tunes and not have to blast it and bug the neighbours.
Man cave mini house out beside hot tub:
Sansui 8080 receiver of mid 70's 80W per channel. Quite a bit recapped - still have to hunt down some distorting small old ones in the audio out of the tuner board.
Paradigm speakers
Direct drive turntable. Earliest DVD player released in NA used as CD player. It has a separate audio laser pickup for playing CD's . The DVD laser is failing but audio still sounds great.
Audio system for the hot tub.
30W PA amp driving 70V line for 2 sony speakers set either side of the hot tub.
The amp takes bluetooth input or a feed from the TV that lives behind a door that when openned makes viewing in the hot tub feasible.
I have a VHF tv antenna on the roof. This feeds quite few of the systems so great FM reception from heaps of GTA and Niagara and Buffalo stations.
I currently have an idle Denon AVR3600 av receiver I am about to discard.
It works fine, but AV video is all for SVideo.
Has digital audio input via optical or RF coax on RCA jack.
Used that to pull hi def audio from the modern TV it was last hooked to.
It has tuner, phono, a few tape/DAT tape loops for reel to reel connections etc.
Then I found the newer Denon for the basement system, spent $20 for an after market remote for it and this beast got retired..
It is an honest 5x90W of class B amps, with a beefy inear power supply.
It is late 90's and heavy
No oem remote, but a Harmony One universal remote is programmed to run it if you dont want to get off the couch to change the volume, etc. I will throw that in.
Needs SVideo hooked to monitor out to look at video menus it puts outs out to let you do setup calibration for 5.1 speakers, digital in options,. etc.
I have a small monitor to give away to do this if this is how you want to hook this up.
PM me if you want this for free to see what your room sounds like with 90W driving your speakers.
It can simulate room sounds, but nicely lets you bypass all of that and just drive it as stereo.
