Beginner Budget Hi-Fi Build: Part 1
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- A four part series where I assemble a budget HiFi with components bought from ebay.
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HiFi components on ebay (Affiliated links)
Receiver ebay.to/2A3JuaW
Cassette Deck: ebay.to/2PISqaU
Speakers: ebay.to/2GzZlnI
Turntable: ebay.to/2PI7tle
CD Player: ebay.to/2QB5Ta1
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Great series so far, though you missed the opportunity to title these videos "The Four Days of Moanmas", with the puppets singing in unison at the end. "On the first day of Moanmas..." etc, etc. Nevertheless, good topic. Well done.
Ok you just answered my question about cd/DVD player
The "Ultimate Compliment" to your "system" would be The Realistic Stereo Reverb System. It was a rather small component, effectively additional source adding or eliminating the reverb "effect" to the "sound scope" to "any" system. I had one. I t was very simple and effective to operate. It had a "silver front finish" to it, keeping with your "look you want to have" It also has a recordable tape monitor loop built in for recording or even, "not" recording the reverberation effect, it provided. In other words, it was designed to "operate like an external equalizer, but instead operate the wanted or non wanted reverb effect, your choice...by the way, it gave you a "live microphone" connection, much like adding "karaoke machine" effect to your system!!! How "neat" you "might find" that??? I used mine to "Graduate Broadcasting School" Because I was "able to to add my voice to my "graduating audition tape" at the time, without using their in school equipment and or splicing a "reel to reel" tape, as l way "supposed to" and "they never "suspected a thing"... How about that??? Anyway, as "compliment"to you sir, you "HAVE" the "ULTIMATE" system, otherwise...If you "ever read this comment" I would be at least "curious to find out", what you think???... Just for your information, "Realistic" was original brand name for Radio Shack, here in the United States, unfortunately they basically no longer exist... But, I sure you could find one for sale on eBay like you have found for most of the "equipment" you have found for your system, sir... Have a Great Day!!! Sincerely, Ray!!!!
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Tape cassettes!! Did I just enter a time warp
My budget hifi:
Denon DR-M 20 cassette ceck
Kenwood DP660 SG CD player
( i also do have the KX 660HX cassette deck, got that brand new sealed)
Yamaha Natural Sound RX V595aRDS AV-Receiver,
which allows me to use DVD Players, VCR's and old video cameras.
It is also capable of 5.1 and quadrophony, but it also works well in a stereo config
Quadral SL 170 II speakers with some modifications
Technics SL-J1 record player
I dumped the most money into the speakers, because it is the spot, where you notice any compromises very quickly.
This is why I love your videos, you always take other considerations into account. A bunch of audiophiles on the internet get mad when you don't want to spend $3,000 on a record player.
"Just sell dead peoples' clothes."
Line of the year, that.
:) 1:08
Wtf?!
Sounds like a song title you might here on the Dr. Demento show.
Nuts, I was wanting to see the boys at the end doing a skit on buying dead peoples clothes.
Put it on a T-shirt.
everyone is dead or soon dead so "dead" is always accurate.
I can confirm that the hifi fever is highly contagious. I got an entire system (speakers, receiver, tape deck, CD player, turntable) handed down to me after my grandfather passed away (it was his setup btw) and all work just fine, and I only got it this summer. But I already want to upgrade my receiver mainly because it’s too low profile and not very exciting. I gotta have something with more knobs and switched, damnit! I’m so glad I got into this, though. It’s a super fun hobby that you don’t need to spend too much money on in the beginning. Glad you did this video, too. Hope it got even more people into retro hifis
My journey into real Hi-Fi began with speakers. A salesman at a local high-end audio shop suggested listening to several different models in my budget over a few weeks, and if I found I kept coming back to a particular set, that was probably the one I should get. 25 years later, I still have and love those Spendor Preludes, which I hooked up to my cheap stereo. Over the next few years, I upgraded the rest of the system around them. It's now Conrad Johnson, Rega, California Audio Labs and Marantz. But NOTHING ever made the startling difference those speakers did. Bottom line - I think of the speakers as the foundation of the system. Most electronics work pretty well, but you will always regret bad speakers.
This. Speakers and receiver would be my #1 priority.
The elephant in the room here is... where does the tree end and the shirt begin? 😉
I swear I didn’t even notice a tree. I was mesmerized by the shirt which I now greatly desire to have in my life.
Both are awesome...
...next time he'll be wearing his Christmas Tee
(I'll get me coat)
@@TheDanno210 Looks like a Joe Browns design to me. I have the cassette tape version which I believe Mr Moan also has.
It doesn't matter, they are both fabulous!
And what happened next? Well on ebay they say..
That the price of the SA-K5L grew three sizes that day.
My Hi-Fi build:
1) Sennheiser HD 600
2) Any source
Done.
Massively underrated. That's the way to go. Get some nice boom boxes and some decent headphones. Spending thousands on equipment will do next to nothing in an ordinary living room. End of story.
@@somborn HD600s underrated? They're alright but they are heralded as some otherworldly HiFi experience - more overrated than anything. They have a good midrange, medium-small staging, solid imaging, mellow highs, some bass and borderline no subbass. There are so many equally good choices for the price nowadays.
Actually that is a wrong setup you need a proper headphone amp because the hd600 has 600 ohms you really need a amp
@@cozy3532 HD600 is 300 ohms but yeah it needs an amp
I love how in detail you went to explain all the positives and negatives of the different versions and options you have available.
Someone is gonna make a sweet setup and have you to thank for it. Can't wait to see the rest.
There are a lot of young people out there like myself that are fascinated by analog audio, but will end up buying something like a crosley cruiser and getting a bad experience. It’s so much better to have a real old hifi system and it can even be cheaper if you’re lucky. Good content to put out there!
I"m a collector in the sense that I'm constantly working with what I have until something better comes along. Much the story of my pc gaming history, and more relevantly, my audio equipment.
We were buying wood from someone who was currently moving out, and the seller just gave away a Denon AVR-2105. I'm sure they had no use for it, but it sits on my desk and gets cranked up nearly every day.
You man's garbage is another man's meal ticket.
"dead people's clothes"... LOL!
Haha ikr. Video took a dark turn in .34 seconds
Now I want to watch Weekend At Bernies.
This!!
@Max Pain So what happens to used electronic goods in the UK... Old tellies that still work, for example? Do they get thrown out with the rubbish?
Usually it's too expensive to properly test electrical items so it's often just the odd coffee-maker & other similar appliances that are sold in the charity shops near me, but most don't take the risk of selling anything electrical!
I have my old Kenwood component stereo I bought in 1993. I have it inside a solid wood cabinet with glass doors. The cabinet matches the wood on our floor in the Living room. Two years ago around Christmas time I put a fan and vent grill inside the cabinet that has a temp sensor, so when it gets above 80F the fan turns on and cools the amp. I love it. I bought the fan as a kit on eBay. It plugs into a power jack on the back of the amp, so when I turn the amp on the temp control system turns on too. It was a fun little project and it turned out great. Love the video.
Will Techmoan's budget Hi-fi system work? Tune in Tomorrow. Same Tech Time. Same Tech Channel.
This week in tech? Leo Laporte
@@iamatis20 'Same Tech Time, Same Crap Channel"
Holy hole in a LP Techmoan!
Umm... this cannnot work
Your shirt reminds me of a DJ at a school disco during the 90s.
Techmoan can pull it off without it looking out of place.
@@erikvonthein3039 he always dressed very smart.. Enjoyable to watch.
He just as well could be!
A link in the video description will take you to the website where you can buy those shirts. The one he's wearing today is called "Drippy Record."
@@markhesse2928 Are you sure it's not a dead person's shirt & it's an original?
I love the idea of having some banging speakers, so I can dance to the tunes of Duran Duran after work.
"Stupid woman..." lol
She's a peeple
This is not the kind of Hi-Fi I would put together, but I appreciate the Techmoan style and I'm excited to see the finished system.
"dead people's clothes".... this is why I love Techmoan's vids... education and expertise delivered with a touch of acerbic wit to keep up the tempo on what can be a very dry topic...
If this guy was a college lecturer... you wouldn't wander in late.. you'd be queuing outside the door for best seats.. :-)
You’ll probably never see this, but since Home Alone is making a comeback for some reason, it might be a fun idea to review that Talkboy Tape Recorder he uses in the second movie. Anyways, thanks for all of the great content!
Amazingly the Talkboy was a prop, and they never had any plans to make a real one. But the movie was so successful everyone assumed it was real and tried to buy one, and eventually they made it for real.
Are you trying to turn Techmoan into an AV gear version of Binging with Babish?
Good to see Ade Edmondson is still in work.
Theres gonna be a techmoan effect on the prices of these things.
Doug Demuro effect is already well know in cars.
@@Armadurapersonal don't forget Mighty Car Mods effect
Cato Rodi haha wow I bet
I don't even like taking peoples advice with electronics. I go with my instinct research and accessibility.
@@mercurialmagictrees i like watching these videos just cause im intrested in the tech and the type of tech. When im buying stuff myself i will spend at least a week or 2 sometimes longer just looking for what im gonma buy checking reviews, comparisons, asking questions on forums and things like that so i can get the best deal for myself.
Initially I wasn't going to watch this video because it's not really something I'm interested in. But I do enjoy watching *Techmoan* videos, so I stuck around anyway. It was a good, informative video - definitely worth watching - and who doesn't like an unboxing video?
Looking forward to Part 2.
Read up on hifi and the components. Getting a good deal from someone who hasn't got a clue what they are selling is great :)
I recommend spending most of your money on the speakers and amp to get good sound. Then focus the money on the format you’ll listen to most and keep building from there.
I bought a Pioneer SX-P520 system for double dirt cheap and it came with the six CD changer and a separate twin cassette player and the multiplugs to connect it. My upstairs neighbour gave me a broken Aiwa hifi but came with an abs awesome turntable which went with the Pioneer. The only fly in the ointment is the CD changer doesn't like CD-R's much and skips esp on the last two discs but the sound is awesome, so crystal clear and defined whether its classical, old northern soul, bit of ska or a rampage of punk, this flat abs bounces when I crank it up :) Other thing is the display is a little dim but its working so def recommend scouring ebay for an old hifi as a starter. I also have a cable to hook my PC output to the phono sockets at the rear and can channel just about anything thru the stereo.
I am tempted to hook this up so it works in tandem with my Samsung blu-ray player with its dedicated 5:1 surround sound as the Samsung can take in a hi fi input and its a 500w beastie too so I can have surround for the telly and super sound from me Pioneer :D
Old CD players not recognising CD-Rs was quite common in my experience. One thing I noticed was that if you chose a slow burn speed the CD-R was more likely to be recognised by the player, but this was back in the day when 4X CD burners were still common. I'm not sure modern CD burners can be made to run at 4X. It may also depend on the brand of CD-R you use.
CD-players will usually recognise CD-Rs better if they are ones with silver or gold on the data side, but not the type with the blue surface!
As to burning-speed, I found that using last year's version of Nero was causing errors to occur at the slower-speeds so I ran a simulation to determine the max speed & burned at one speed slower & haven't had any problems since!
Also as burners don't cost much these days, even BluRay multi-RWs like the LG I have are very affordable!
One problem that occurs with older CD/DVD players is that while you can usually access the laser's lens to clean it, although it may involve opening the case, in some environments grime can build up on the laser's prisms inside which definitely aren't easy to get at!
@@zoomosis I have bought some TDK CD-RXG's which are supposed to be top banana for music and very high quality.
@@MrWombatty Used to be Nero had a problem at the high speeds once upon a time, I do have a blu-ray DVD writer, writes anything up to DVD but doesn't write blu-ray but reads 'em. I intend to use a slow speed with these TDK CD-RXG's but now you said that about Nero might have to look at another burner suite :S
The whole thing about preference at the beginning I think was a good thing to point out! Most people I know would want a 1990s Technics with all the fancy shmancy functions meanwhile I’d rather use a late 1960s Denon deck that has only the function to play and record cause it sounds better to me
I managed to get myself a B&O Beocentre 1800 with a couple of B&O speakers, which needed new rings, for 80 quid off ebay. Amp, turntable and FM tuner in one. Absolute bargain and the best purchase I've made in years.
Dont own a HiFi system just use my Fiio X5 Mk3 DAC with some AKG 702s and love the sound it produces! Maybe one day but for now im staying portable. Cheers
Mat, this is easily your best series of videos, and actually the ones that draw my attention to this channel in the first place. I wish you'd done more of that educative stuff on how to buy stuff, and what to look for, as you are really good at it. Thank you very much, and keep it up!
I inherited one of those technics “casseivers” off my grandad when I was a kid. It saw me well through my teenage years.
You're the reason I got a Quartz Lock direct drive turntable. The speed is perfect! I had a budget Pyle table before and I was constantly 'retuning' it per record.
Ive picked up a few bits lately from an ebay chap called " oldskoolhifi". One of which was an excellent Denon Precision PMA-100m amplifier. Nice high spec Class A amplifier with lots of inputs and runs down to 4Ohms if needed with 110 watts RMS per channel. And only £40 !!. It looked like it was brand new and the sound quality is just superb. So bargains to be had with older high spec HiFi equipment.
Get Well soon Techmoan and thanks for teaching us on how to build your very own personal custom Hi-Fi system. Will try to make one soon 😊
merry christmas and a happy techmoan
Great video. Old technology is not as bad as some people may think.
I got me a set of Klipsch Forte speakers, made in the USA, in 1986. They sound amazingly good! Most modern speakers, even high end speakers lack the "punch" on the low end (bass). The Klipsch speakers produce an incredible "punch" with very clear mid-range and well balanced high end. I'm glad that my closest neighbor is 50 yards away. LOL.
Your comments are bang on love to to tinker and get bored like to change my system All the time. That's the fun of the hobby.
Possibly putting the cat amongst the pigeons, but the first thing I would choose is where I was going to listen. A good listening position is important, but also a listening room (sounds pretentious, I evicted my dining table) where you can play music without disturbing neighbours. If you can’t do that it may be better to go with headphones and a headphone amp. I’m not fond of listening using headphones but I can do so at night without disturbing anyone else. At reasonable hours my music goes through a hand built valve amp.
Agreed. Basements are good, if you have one. I put my home cinema set up down in mine. Even when I crank it up it doesn't seem to bother the neighbours as most of the adjoining basements aren't used for anything.
Techmoan your equipment cabinets behind you look amazing! What a stunning selection of quality components you have assembled there. id kill for your open reel tape deck! great video and looking forward to part 2!
Slurp! Did that taste good? lol
I used to have a full separates system, but for space restraints I have gone to the dark side (Sonos).
I thoroughly enjoyed this video as it brought back many happy memories of time gone by tinkering for the ‘perfect’ sound.
Can’t wait for the new videos.
I bought my stuff at a thrift store back in 2016 not knowing anything. It serves its purpose and wasn’t expensive. This year I upgraded from Pioneer bookshelf speakers to three-way Kenwood JL703 floorstanding units from the early 90s/late 80s. Sounds great and I use it up in the loft for all my analog audio/video stuff. On a 40 in. TV, VHS looks just good enough to watch and if it has Dobly surround, the amplifier I have supports Pro Logic II so it sounds great as well.
It would be fun to see you look at budget new products such as the Auna CD players and amps that can be found for under £100 on eBay!
I love your videos Techmoan. I'm a music lover however I'm not what you'd call an audiophile. What I really enjoy about your vids is your friendly presenting style. Amidst all the flash bang wallop you of 21st C life you are a breath of calming fresh air. All the best man.
I've been watching you on and off for a few years, and you're still doing a cracking job. Thanks.
This brings me back to my highschool/young adult days. I inherited my parents Hitachi Hifi. The turntable was dead and innthe end I was looking for a new one. The radio, tape deck and amp were a combo and I eventually scrounged enough for a $120 5 cd changer and I added speakers and inputed my tv for suround sound.
My HIFI costed me 5.25$ it
includes
CD Player: Playstation 2
Cassette Deck: Technics M205
And also a Pioneer SX-2700 Receiver.
You got all that for 5 bucks?
but you can´t hook up a ps2 to a hifi system? or are you running it of a tv speaker?
@@vincentyzer1627 Never heard of composite out eh?
@@chickenee yeah but i thought it didnt have that. For some reason on my old tv with front av and back av on the same channel i could get my ps2 from the stereo, but i dont think his tv has that also.
@@vincentyzer1627 consoles from around the time that the PS2 was out tend to have a few different AV cables that you can get for them, and usually the console would be supplied with a composite cable
The video why Im subscribed to this channel! Thank you so much!
I really appreciate seeing more of your complete setup. I'd love to see more videos of room/house tours showcasing your gear. Thanks for the videos and keep up the good work!
Super fascinating. I find myself starting to get just a wee hint of the hifi bug going around to local thrift stores, but it's often difficult to judge what is a good buy and what is a compatible or necessary component for a given piece of equipment. So I will be waiting for the rest of this series with baited breath. Thank you, sir.
1:10 "The thrift store only have dead people's clothes". Glad to see you came home from there with a shirt though.
Wharfdale are my first pick when it comes to speakers, surprisingly I have noticed hardly anyone ever .mentions them or even has them
Its a Rome Thing Everyday proper council speakers them lad 😆
I have a mini-system in another room that I haven't turned on in years and I still love this series.
It would be fun if you would create a system with no components past a certain date, like everything must be from before Dec 31 1988.
I love his videos where he shows more of himself..... just a beautiful man !!
12:47 pretty sweet. I think technics and audio technica are the best value for quality audio.
This video needs more puppets.
I’m just starting the video, but of this fact I am certain. More. Puppets! (They’re great and I enjoy seeing you work them.)
I remember making mix tapes on my dads stereo back in the late 80's. I think it was a Philips system with dual cassette decks. I remember him adding a CD deck to it and the first CD he played was GnR's "Appetite for Destruction." He was also a fan of Randy Travis and George Thorogood , too.
The Technics tape advance(song skip) feature brings back nice memories! The twisty speaker tabs, not so much... Also, can't wait to see what speakers get matched to that "Cassceiver"
New Techmoan. I literally dropped everything to be here.
Why were you holding everything?
CatsMeowPaw - Hopefully not your trousers!
Don't drop the baby
Your cold would now be reclassified as Kung Flu.
Loving that casseiver! Looking forward to rest of this series.
My first HiFi was based on this Cassiever! My god this hit me hard in feels when the wrapper came off, so many old memories!
I find a lot discarded on my dog walks - nice speakers, amps, more.
BTW, how about "home theatre" integration - and room setup, design, furnishings for best sound.
I'm interest on this, too. Mostly 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound setups.
It can be done. I cobbled together a 5.1 system for probably less than £120 all in. The receiver is an Aiwa AVNW39 from 2001; i scored that on eBay for £25 quid. Front speakers are old Sonys from a 1980s all-in-one system; rears are Realistic bookshelf speakers from the Seventies. A Kenwood tape deck (£5 from the charity shop), LG DVD / VCR combo (£50 'slight second' from eBay in 2005) and Toshiba sub (£30 from the charity shop) complete the set up. Obviously it doesn't have HDMI switching (though coax and optical are supported and sound great) and i'm sure any true audiophile would laugh their head off at it, but for me it does the job - movies in my Victorian living room (a far from ideal listening environment) sound absolutely epic. The only thing I wish it had was phono support but that didn't seem to be a common feature on AV amps of that period.
5.1 amplifiers without HDMI actually sell for less than equally heavy and good 2.0 regular stereo amplifiers in Christian charity shops (that also sell dead people's clothes). A 5.1 amplifier can be misused as a 2.0 stereo amplifier if you just connect your stereo speakers to front left and front right. The lower price is because of the myriad of unnecessary buttons and diods that stereo users never use and need to learn to avoid.
mate ive been a sub of yours for a while and I enjoy all of your honest feed back with the diversity of the products and gadgets you review - they are fantastic, thanks for all the great uploads and happy holidays - looking forward to more great videos!
That is a lovely video - great reference for people who say "I want to get a hifi" and have no idea what this means or what they're getting into.
I like the way you "sneak in" a turntable even though it's not in your initial list.Also, please allow a small correction: a hifi without loudspeaker(s) is possible if you use headphones.
I have to comment favourable on that very elegant rack you have installed your equipment which brings me to, perhaps, an additional item or two that should be on the list, namely the rack and the loudspeaker stands - should one prefer bookshelf loudspeakers. If you could include these in your shopping list, that would be great. A rack is not essential for someone who already has a dedicated space for the hifi. One, however, who hasn't such a space, especially if intending to acquire a turntable, and moreover lives with a spouse who abhors the look of random pieces of equipment stacked together in the living room or children who like to poke things needs to carefully consider the choice of installation method for their hifi. Speaker stands may be also an essential consideration in such a scenario.
Last, I would like some input on the choice of cables. The reason for this is that someone might be inclined to walk into a local hardware shop and buy new budget price rca interconnects for 5 quid a pair, which will eat into the overall budget, instead of getting something on par (price-wise) with the rest of the system online. Also, on the other extreme, might decide to use bell wire for loudspeaker cable which will end up looking unsightly and manky over time and might also affect sound in extreme cases. Cable looks and tidyness I feel is an important factor when the hifi is placed somewhere where it can be seen and, worse, tripped over.
This channel has become addictive. Man is straight off of Channel 4 daytime TV.
You know, I feel like I'm on first-name terms with your stereo. I've seen videos about almost every component, and can tell you stories about each one :-D
That turner for example, with it's Nixie tubes, or that odd thing with the Oscilloscope on it. Or the digital media player. All old friends by now!
How to Build a Budget Hi-Fi system: *Move to Japan.*
Weebs 🙃😍
Yeah... probably end up spending more on touhou music than I would on the HIi-Fi system
I’d probably go broke after walking into the HI FI stereo section at Bic Camera
First thing you need to do is to be able speak & read Japanese!
@@namakudamono The one in Kichijoji?
He's definitely ill. What a trooper, still manages to tech our world! Feel better soon, chap! 💙
I built my HiFi after watching your videos!
Cassette Deck: Denon DRM-700
CD player: Denon DCD-810
Turntable: Kenwood KD-37R
Tuner: Toshiba ST-T30
Amp/EQ: From a Technics DV290 setup.
A four part Techmoan HiFi series? Looks like Christmas has come early.
This is what I'm waiting for
Wow, I used to have a similar Technics you showed, an HD60 in particular. It was probably one of the best mini systems I've heard in my life
At the end, I couldn't keep my eyes off the "Mindhunter" reel-to-reel in the background. What a damn beautiful machine (I loved that video, too).
Is that an Eames next to your Hi-Fi setup? How comfortable is it? Was interested in getting an Eames but want to know how comfortable it is before taking the plunge.
Listening to this on my $3 earbuds
A great idea for a little series. Lots of great old reliable and solid tech out there. I'm astonished that my old hi fi system, bought new in 1983 and used a fair bit, is still working so well 35 years on!
An Akai AM-UO1 amp and CS-M3 cassette deck, Pioneer CS-303 speakers and some more recent stuff added like a turntable and a CD player, also connected the tv, along with a cable plug to connect it to my digital radio, my MP3 player or my laptop as needed.
Never had a single problem until the amp went last year, and I was really sad, and I started hunting for a replacement (a new Pioneer amp stood out) but a friend told me this old tech is great quality, worth fixing and not difficult or expensive to do. And sure enough a local hi fi repairman sorted it out for me. Makes me wonder if it will still be working in another 35 years, because I will probably not be!
I'm not planning on building a good HiFi system for years, I just love hearing Mat talk! Even with a cold... (dead peoples clothes killed me)
The best way to upgrade your hi-fi is to simply smoke a lot of cannabis. The music will sound a million times better. Even on the cheapest of speakers. Believe me. 🔊
Hey Mat - first of all thanks for your many nice and entertaining videos - being a tech-nerd and Broadcast sound-engineer myself, I have enjoyed your output very much for the last year or so :-)
I have a different kind of question to you - Where did you get that super über cool shirt you are wearing in this video? Is it to be found somewhere on the internet? I´m a vinyl junkie myself repairing old turntables in my sparetime, so it would be very spot on for me to get a shirt like that, and I dont think we will ever be at the same party with the same shirt haha :-D
Wish all a nice x-mas and a happy new year from Denmark.
Best regards
Søren :-)
Check out Joe Brown a uk seller
@@antmerritt thanks - have found it. Found out that there was a link in the video description :-)
Man I am so glad you uploading this series!
Love your videos and the way you present everything. Gonna keep this short but just wanted to let you know how much your comunity loves your work
The curvature of the speaker does have a real purpose. It reduces parallel sides and so reduces standing waves. Great video. I would love to get hold of a DBX expander.
uhh yes the perfect video for me, my whole life is on a budget!!
I can't believe "The Mrs" was fussy about the look of the speakers when you have that huge rack of components flashing , blinking and dominating the room (no need for Christmas lights eh )
This is the series I was waiting for. Thanks!
I’m hoping to put a system together in the new year and this is going to prove fantastically helpful.
I purchased a casseiver myself from a thrift store a cpl years ago and it's a slightly newer model from 1985 by realistic but it's built pretty well too. It has a logic controlled tape deck, but the tape deck is really great. It has Dolby b and c and also manual and auto recording level options with meters similar to yours that also double as power meters for the amplifier as well. It has a digital am and fm tuner as well as a built in preamp for a turntable.
Top vid mate..
Few idiots in the comments section..
Merry Xmas techmoan
Few idiots in the comments section??? Today must be a good day if there's only a few :)
“Charity shops only sell dead people’s clothes”
- The most relatable comment ever
I’m always delighted to see a new video from you! My father instilled a deep love of hifi and electronics in me and I’m planning to complete my own budget hifi system soon. I hope you’re well and I’d love to get in touch
I've been wanting a sound system and now I finally understand what on earth a hi- fi system is. Thanks! Hopefully will be an upgrade from my $40 USD desktop speakers, lol. Thanks!
Wow, your voice sounds so different with a cold.
@@Lilja2022 Perfect British pronunciation
He doesn’t have a cold. That’s his normal voice. He has a number of videos where he discusses this.
merry christmas techmoan
Love waking up to a new techmoan video😁 my hifi setup is beyond this level but still really cool to look at ways one can build an acceptable rig for the cheap.
Really like your videos, keep it up. Love seeing old tech that I drooled over when I was young. I will never go back though, I still have an old Sansui receiver from 1965 some old dual cassette decks and a phono in the basement that will never see the light of day ever again but it is great to see some of your old tech. Bought a new Pioneer VSX 1131 for $199 black Friday special for my projector home theater. I still have albums and a video disk player which when I add up the money spent on those formats makes my head spin. I am glad I live in these times where music is practically free for the most part and is perfect pristine digital sound. I do not long for the old days or old gear, but I love your videos for the reminiscing quality. Thanks
Why do you have a tree in your house covered in lights? And where can I buy one?
Decadent Nightmare It’s Christmas!
Do you mean a Christmas tree?
Which model do you recommend on a small to medium budget?
Lol!
sadly those were sold only in Japan
i bought a nakamichi bx-150 cassette deck from the local Arabian market, haggled the seller to 40 euros :D
An excellent video for beginners, and for us more experienced ones as a reminder of what we went through to get to our "audio nirvana"
I built a hifi sound system connected to the TV using old hifi separates, the only new things in the mix are the TV and the dvd/hdd player/recorder. I heartily recommend this route!
My only advice for buying old electronics is only buy products made in Japan.
What about good British equipment ? NAD used to be the budget audiophile standard and Phillips used to make some brilliant equipment in Holland
@@LandyVlad_Rides Grundig and Bang & Olufsen were always decent, too.
@@stephenpointon I've always found nad and Philips to be near unbeatable for the prices.
Rubbish..... Britain has made some cracking hi-fi..... Just don't go near the yanks that's crap.
@Techmoan but you sound always like you have cold :)
He has quite a few medical conditions, one of which is a problem breathing through his nose.
It's a tinsy tiny bit more raspy and nasal. Funny thing is I wouldn't even have noticed if he hadn't mentioned it, and now I can't unhear it...
I concur :). I was also wondering if the pronunciation of the word 'seven' is part of that, or if it is a form of dialect. He seems to say 'seben' :)
@@NicMG oh, did not know that, I like his voice, yes @Techmoan, I'm talking about you :)
I keep thinking he is the bloke narrating "How its made"...
I found a mitsubishi da-l70 for my cheap stack system. Receiver with a 7 cassette changer and a separate drawer type turntable. Couldn't be more happy about it. and the cassette changing mechanism is just about the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Love your approach to presenting the information in this video. Very well thought out and clearly presented. Good job and thank you!