Acoustic
06-07-2008, 08:56 PM
Hey fellow tapers, Got back to my roots with some 1970's gear the last 3 years. When I started the quest I thought I was one of a few:D getting into vintage equipment but after Googling some gear names I found Audiokarma. At the start I was mainly looking for a Yamaha CA-XXXX+CT-XXXX amp and tuner for CD listening, FM and streaming audio off the net. But I got a hankering for some R2R's. I've had good karma with amps, tuners etc... but not with the R2R's. I've bought 5 that worked at first but only one... a Teac 2300s... is in working order. But I didn't give up on tape... since the first of the year I've gotten back into cassettes. First I picked up a Nakamichi CR-2A, then a DR-3 for the bedroom... I said WOW... this works for me. So.... I quested for a couple of CR-5's... one for the main rig and another for the bedroom. And man am I a happy camper!! I got 100 Maxell XL-II 90's from Total Media and I am going to town making tapes from FM and off of Rhapsody.
Also in the past year I got some Yamaha silver faced cassette decks...a TC-520 and a K-1d mainly to play my old cassettes I recorded years ago on a Nak CR-1A I had in the early 1990's. I also have a dbx 400XG Program Route Selector that I still have to incorporate into my system.
So... for my main system I use Yamaha's CA-1000 integrated, a CT-800 tuner, YP-D6 TT, the Nak CR-5A, Sony SCD-CE595, a Entech 203.2 DAC, a Behringer Ultra Curve Pro and stream Rhapsody with a RCA Lyra..... and for speaks a couple of Polk Monitor 50's and there 10" sub.
One of my other hobbies is photography so I like taking pics of my gear, of course, though this one doesn't have my CR-5 in it:p:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/2375910296_b7e2b67196.jpg
And here is my bedroom rig.... a couple of Polk Model 10's are out of the picture again sans the new CR-5A:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2440142581_91608140fa.jpg
If you've read this far.... thanks!! Andy.
Also in the past year I got some Yamaha silver faced cassette decks...a TC-520 and a K-1d mainly to play my old cassettes I recorded years ago on a Nak CR-1A I had in the early 1990's. I also have a dbx 400XG Program Route Selector that I still have to incorporate into my system.
So... for my main system I use Yamaha's CA-1000 integrated, a CT-800 tuner, YP-D6 TT, the Nak CR-5A, Sony SCD-CE595, a Entech 203.2 DAC, a Behringer Ultra Curve Pro and stream Rhapsody with a RCA Lyra..... and for speaks a couple of Polk Monitor 50's and there 10" sub.
One of my other hobbies is photography so I like taking pics of my gear, of course, though this one doesn't have my CR-5 in it:p:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/2375910296_b7e2b67196.jpg
And here is my bedroom rig.... a couple of Polk Model 10's are out of the picture again sans the new CR-5A:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2440142581_91608140fa.jpg
If you've read this far.... thanks!! Andy.