It has an old pc with Debian running a local web Page written in Python, with all the controls and and EQ . I have also made two speaker that sound surprisingly good.

I recently scored a pair of rare Sony APM-22ES speakers at an auction for $6. For anyone unfamiliar with Sony’s late-1980s APM (Accurate Pistonic Motion) line, they feature iconic, flat-square aluminum honeycomb woofers driven at four points to eliminate cone breakup.

The original woofers were intact, but like most 40-year-old APMs, both factory tweeters were completely dead. Rather than tossing these pieces of Japanese audio history, I decided to do a clean, reversible resto-mod.

The Tweeter "Stealth" Retrofit:

Sourced modern Peerless OC25SC65-04 1" textile dome capsules.

Rather than cutting up the front baffles or fabricating external round adapter plates, I mounted the round Peerless capsules entirely behind the original square factory trim pieces to preserve the stock 1980s laboratory aesthetic.

Used a friction-fit gasket and a reversible structural hot-glue bead around the rear housing to achieve an airtight seal against the woofer's back-wave pressure without permanently altering the vintage plastic.

Crossover Re-Voicing & Rebuild:

The stock crossover pushed the factory tweeters down near an aggressive ~1.3–2 kHz, which would quickly distort and overheat modern compact textile capsules.

Re-voiced the high-pass path by replacing the stock parallel film blocks with a single Dayton Audio PMPC 8.2 \mu\text{F} Precision (1%) film capacitor. This shifted the crossover hand-off up to ~3,200 Hz, keeping the Peerless domes in their safe operating window while letting the ultra-rigid, distortion-free flat APM woofers carry more of the upper midrange.

Replaced the degraded, 40-year-old black Elna bipolar electrolytic capacitor on the woofer low-pass leg with a modern Dayton Audio DMPC 15 \mu\text{F} film capacitor to clean up bass damping and ESR.

Kept the original 2.2 mH iron-core inductors, parallel tweeter coils, and factory circuit breakers intact.

Cosmetics & Clean-Up:

Cleaned and conditioned the faux-wood vinyl wrap cabinets to bring back their original satin luster.

Hand-brushed the oxidized cast-aluminum woofer frames to restore the factory metal finish, sealed them to prevent future corrosion, and gently cleaned the original rubber surrounds.

The Custom Stands:

To elevate and properly decouple the ~35 lb monitors, I built a set of bespoke stands using solid Black Walnut plates and 3" brushed aluminum columns. They utilize a hidden internal continuous tension-rod spine and a heavy multi-layered ballast core to keep the center of gravity locked near the floor.

The Sound:

The combo of modern Scandinavian textile domes with the lightning-fast transient response of Sony's flat-square honeycomb woofers is incredible. Bass is fast, tight, and punchy, and the high end is silky smooth with zero ear fatigue.

For a minimal investment, these perform right up there with modern four-figure standmounts. Happy to answer any questions about the APM platform or the crossover tweaks!

Extremely beginner in the space and need advice. I am looking to assemble a front LCR for my 5.1.2 setup. I already got pinnacle sfit twr 1050 (planning to use as surrounds) and Energy Pro Series 3.5 Bookshelf (planning to use as atmos or rear speakers depending on 5.1.2/7.1). I also have an Energy ES 12 XL Subwoofer. The last remaining piece is a good matching front LCR setup.

Nearby to me on FB Marketplace are these Polk speakers combined as two towers and a center channel which is exactly what I am looking for. The rest of my system is already pretty vintage and that is not an issue for me as long as it works and sounds good. The price was lowered recently to $80 which is perfect for my budget as long as they dont sound like garbage and would mesh with the rest of my setup okay.

The center channel is the Polk CSi40 and the towers I believe are Polk RTA 8T.

Please let me know whether this would be a good option to move forward for my initial budget home theater.

Got these 3010c for my desktop but I feel they might be too much?

Any advice? Or should I just move them to my living room and big TV?

Focal Cobalt 816s speakers

Quantum Elelctronics 102 Pre-amp

Quantum Electronics Power Amp

Wiim Pro Plus

After a 25 year hiatus I decided to treat myself to a brand new stereo hifi set-up - floor standing speakers, amp, turntable, & CD player (purchased from a well known UK high street retailer). Whilst surfing the net and looking for advice I somehow landed on this sub and have become an avid reader since. Following months of lurking here I decided I'll put together a little used market bedroom set-up, initially because a friend sold me a Denon DRA385 receiver and a pair of Mission 733 floorstanding speakers all in excellent condition at a price I couldn't refuse. But I still kept on scouring the used markerplace, more out of curiosity just to see what was out there, when I came across the the cobalts and quantums on an auction site. After a bit more research on the cobalts (I was only interested in the speakers) I put in a bid of £240 and won. I purchased the wiim moved out the Denon and Missions to the spare room and I now have the Cobalt / Quantums / Wiim set up and what a lovely warm sound they produce. I'm well chuffed with it.

Showing off my Facebook marketplace find and 1st time audio setup.
ELAC Debut 2.0 DB62 Speakers
Dayton Sub800 Subwoofer
Loxjie A30 USB DAC/Amp

All for $180

I purchased the stands from another seller for $50.
I know the sub is pretty mid but it’s better than nothing. I will probably upgrade that next.

Ok I need some advice here. I inherited this setup with the house we just bought.

All I want to do is plug in my Wiim Pro Plus and have it play through the house. Previous owner had a Sonos plugged into this setup and it was working.

In all honesty I would love to be able to trim all this down to fewer boxes.

So last night I plugged the Wiim in where the Sonos used to be (plugged into the Kenwood Receiver) and absolutely could not get a sound out of it.

So, since the Wiim is my only source I thought “maybe I don’t even need the receiver” and I plugged it straight into the Parasound amp.

Well that kinda worked. Got music but the volume and quality sucked. From a music pick internet search it seems that these Parasound HCA 1000A are pretty good, no?

All the connections seem secure, the audioplex switch connections too. So I’m not sure what the problem is. I guess my questions are:

1. if I’m just using the Wiim can I dump the kenwood receiver?
   
2. The HCA1000A should be sufficient right? I mean it worked for previous owner. What else can I do for troubleshooting?
   

Really would prefer to not have to spend a lot to get this all integrated.

I’m super drawn to this system
(Denon UD-M3 Mini System with SC-M53 Speakers)

However I’m starting from scratch and might want to add a record player soon to my collection.

I’m assuming I shouldn’t attempt to combine them and phono stages require more studying on my end (I wanted a simple set up at first / minimal)

I keep hearing that I should start with edifiers and a simple cd player / audio technica…. But the denon set is 170 😬.

Any thoughts

Found this for €27,50 - needs some work and cleaning. The ortofon om style stylus was dead - i tested it with a fitting stylus. The main this is a quite noisy motor. Hopefully some machine oil will fix it. It sounds pretty solidd otherwise.
I may keep it as a secondary player or pass it on once fixed.
Good find or meh?

just got insignia Insignia Powered Speakers ( NS-HBTSS116 ) and they will not play audio no matter what source I use or any settings I try to change. are they just cooked or am I doing something wrong?

Owner couldn’t test if it worked because they had no receiver so they gave it to me for free. Turns out it was broken after all. A few hours later it’s fixed and working beautifully. No better cost than free.

I've been listening to my system for about a year pretty regularly, and I think I'm ready to upgrade, but I'm not sure which component to focus on. Everything except for the turntable–a simple Audio Technica ATLP60XBT–was super cheap and thrifted.

The speakers are Aiwa SX-ZR330s. I'm fairly certain these came from a black plastic crap system in the ‘90s, but they sound pretty good to me. The receiver is an Onkyo HT-R39. It's from a theatre in a box, and it only has an input for a passive subwoofer. On that front, I picked up a General Electric GTD 120, also from a theatre in a box set.To me, this piece generally sounds wildly under powered, but I guess that's a passive sub for you. Finally, I have a Sony SS-CNP900 center channel for movies. 

Before this, I was using a sound bar, so even this extremely cheap system sounds light years better. My guess is I should upgrade the receiver or the speakers. I recently heard the Kanto YU Passive 5.25s, and I thought those sounded even better. Any recommendations would be great. Looking to spend around $300, but I don't mind saving up either.

Hello, everyone. I’m not sure if this will be subject to deletion, but I’m just looking for an honest opinion. Im currently living in an apartment, and these towers are just a bit too much. Since I moved in, I upgraded (or downgraded in a way) to the reference bookshelf version which are the UBR 62’s. Absolutely love them, and I don’t think the bass carries as much but still has a touch of lower end for their size. Anyway, I’m selling the towers since I no longer use them, and the speakers themselves are in mint condition. The grills are missing a couple plastic nubs which is a common issue for this model, but they still attach just fine (and I think they look better without them to be honest). I put them up for local sale on the marketplace for $500. They sell new for $1600. Do you think I’m giving these away? I want to be fair, but I also don’t want to just give them away either considering that I paid full price for them. They sound fantastic if they have room to breathe and a decent high current amp. Please overlook my lack of room treatment as well. It’s an apartment and I don’t want to drill holes in the walls.

got my first sacd player (cdp-ce 595) and a few discs to test and I've have to mess around with the laser in diagnostic to get hybrid and regular cds to work because I've had issues with it skipping on light to mid scratched discs or discs that play fine in other players so far I've adjusted it and it works most of the time but I'm wondering if it's on its way out comments/ recommendations would be helpful thanks!

I don’t have any setup today, listening is done on phone/spotify and a pair of older Sony headphones.

After some research I found WiiM Amp Ultra (for continuing to streaming music) and Elac Debut 3 as speakers and are considering to buy this as my first setup.

Question, should I look into something different as my first setup? Or is there anything you think I should consider?

Additional context, my plan is to continue streaming music for now since I don’t own any physical media. But my plan longterm is to get into physical media and add record player and cd player in the future. I would say my budget for a first setup is between 500-1000 EUR.

Thank you in advance for the advice.

Hope this is the right place to post. I have a yamaha rx-v385 receiver connected to tv/4k player etc. I play cds through my 4k player but want a dedicated player for my cds. Plus my 4k player does not play the first 2 seconds of the song when I skip a track.

I heard that dvd players are a good alternative. Do I lose sound quality using rca connectors? My 4k players is hdmi connected. Thanks

Anyone give this receiver a listen? What are your thoughts?

Bought this subwoofer on a chance second hand, but I've had little luck finding out much about this model number of Visoniks older(?) subwoofers. Would be lovely if someone here could help out with facts and views on this model (max output 180W) or Visonik in general!

ELAC DF63 3.0, Niles SW8 sub, Wiim Amp Ultra. Waiting on my Fluance RT-85

First real audiophile experience and man I’m happy with it! Speakers obviously not ideally placed, but it works for my needs.

I have a dilemma. Right now on my home audio set up, I have no way to play CDs. I’ve got two options in mind.

The first option is that I could repair my fat backwards compatible PS3 for $600 CDN and use that. The pros would be CD/SACD support and I can play my full library of all PlayStation games from 1-5. The cons would be that it would take up lots of space, no display and I’d have to sacrifice an HDMI port from either my PS5, Switch or Wii.

The second option would that I buy a Teac PD-301-X CD player for about the same price. The pros is that it has a small profile, and it has a coaxial out to go into my amp. The cons is that there’s no SACD support.

The two most important things I need in a cd player is coaxial out, and gapless playback (optical is being taken up by the tv). I would be interested in collecting SACDs if they live up to the hype. My current setup is an NAD D3020 V2 amp hooked up to a pair of Dali Sonik 3 speakers. Thanks in advance!

I currently use a PreSonus revelator audio interface, but I want to be able to stream music off my phone using Bluetooth instead of my laptop.

I only listen to music, I don't record anything. The outputs need to be either XLR or 1/4".

Nothing american either.

I’ve been flipping equipment for a a few months waiting for my Dads old receiver to come up at a great price. Finally managed to grab one today!

50+ years old, pots still sound solid and the board and caps were incredibly clean considering the age and all of the lights are still perfect. Nice considering the work I had to do on the SX-3700 below to get it going.

Don’t worry I’m not using the speakers on the cabinet at the moment or the SX-3700