Vintage Audio System - turntable cassette and open reel

Sony TC-756 reel to reel; DBX-224X noise reduction; Yamaha CA-1000 amplifier; Stacked Advent speakers. Music sources: 1) vinyl; 2) cassette (TDK SA) recorded from vinyl; 3) Maxell 35-180B open reel recorded from vinyl. Sound quality is limited by the webcam microphone, but the short video gives the flavor of vintage gear. Note the lava lamps! Turntable used - Ariston RD11S, SME series III arm, Shure V15-RS cartridge; Herbie's Way Excellent turntable mat.

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• C-1
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• Yamaha
• CA-1000
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• Advent
• DBX-224X
• Stereo
• Vintage
• HiFi
• Lava
• Lamp

[Rockstar1974lol]

hi i just wanted to ask how the dbx is... i want to buy one for my akai gx77 reeltoreel but im not sure bout exactly wat to get... im thinking bout either dolby with b+c or dbx2. i just wanted ur opinion on it and hopefully on the dolby ones if uve ever tried them. and also im planning to record with the 7.5 speed. thanks

[rspurdue]

@Rockstar1974lol IMO, DBX is superb. It's deal for reel to reel - it's not like you will play the tapes in another player - unlike cassettes. So you encode and decode DBX on the same deck. I have a SONY NR-335 Dolby unit also, which is excellent, but the DBX gives a higher signal-to-noise ratio,so it allows no 'hiss' and very dynamic recordings. My DBX 224X, like many DBX units, decodes DBX LPs (not that I have any). It adjusts for minimal compression effect, and only cost me about $80.00

[bjorn2run]

Good amp choice for the quad Advents. Good classic system overall.

[rspurdue]

@bjorn2run Thanks. I am about to change out this amp for a Sansui G-22000 but I may also need to upgrade my speakers....I really like the stacked Advents for the progressive rock (60's 70's) I listen to mainly...I'd love to get some NS-1000x Yamaha's or two pairs of JBL L-100 for the new system, so will be selling off a lot of the gear you see here, but will keep the TEAC C-1 and the Ariston/SME turntable - I have since added a Thorens TD-160 with TP-16 and Nagatron cartridge.

[MauiBassPlayer1]

nice system, I used to have a Yamaha ca-800, I miss it. I had a sonab turntable with a saec arm, and a denon tuntable, a tanberg cassette, a phase linear auto correlator, a audio concepts equalizer, and played it all through my JBL L100's.

[rspurdue]

@MauiBassPlayer1 Ahhh...I wish I had JBL L100's!!! That's my next purchase someday - seriously good speakers. Tandberg also made fantastic tape decks, and the CA-800 is a wonderful amp, of course. I take it you no longer have the system?

[Urzhum]

With years better and better :)

[gilmour509]

nice looks like my setup! i have that ikea bookcase as well.

[MarcoZ1ITA1]

@rspurdue (scratch my previous answer by the way)

Indeed, seeing a reel to reel tape playing is only second to my experience of some 40 year old Super 8 films being played for the first time in 30 years, it just looks so awesome... unfortunately i no longer have a car with a tape deck (otherwise i would have had some kind of recorder already)

At the same time tho, i think RTR is a bit too much... maybe in the future, if someone gives a machine to me (unlikely, they're uncommon here)