New (OLD) speakers !

[Papahyooie]

A friend/coworker of mine needs his home theatre and network set up after renovating his mother's house, so he asked me to help him do it. He was just going to pay me a little cash for the job, we're friends so I wasn't too worried about it. However, his mom wanted to get rid of a bunch of junk, and was going to sell a couple of 1977 pioneer speakers. I said I'd do the job in exchange for those, and she agreed! I'd heared them before, hooked up to the original pioneer head unit that they came with, and it was pure mellow, warm classic goodness! I brought those puppies home and hooked them up to an older (albiet not old enough to do the speakers justice, its probably a late 80s model) reciever and listened to Tom Petty and Bob Seger all night long. Even hooked up my shitty fender guitar with a shitty little practice amp to them and it sounded a million times better.
I wish she would at least sell me the reciever. If I'm not mistaken its a Pioneer SX-750 which can be seen here http://www.silverpioneer.netfirms.com/700_series_receivers.htm
but she's not ready to get rid of that part. Not sure why she's so attatched to the reciever but fine with losing the speakers.
I'm thinking about buying one on the bay, but i'd rather buy this one, as just like the speakers, its in nearly perfect condition, cosmetically and as far as I can tell, mechanically, and I know exactly how it sounds. (though one input on one of the speakers needs to be replaced. Nothing I cant do myself though. Plus the cabinets have hardly a scratch on them.) Nothing beats rocking out to classics on vintage hardware.

Anybody else have / like old audio equipment?

[JC316]

Used to deal in it. Currently have a Harmon Kardon amp hooked up to some sharper image speakers. I do have some 80W RMS Olsen speakers that sound great, currently being used as a stand in my closet though.

My dad has a Sansui amp and speaker combo that he got when he was in the navy, back during Vietnam. Suckers will shake the walls, but again, they are being used as tables.

[Wile E]

Used to have an old Fisher-made LXI receiver (was my mother's, actually). The very first model with a digital tuner. It was rated at 125w/channel, but was probably closer to 200w. The speakers it came with had each 2 1" horn tweeters, 2 5" mids, and an 18" woofer. Primary input source was a Pioneer PL-518 turntable.

The speakers died sometime in the mid 90's. The surrounds on the cones dry rotted to death. Probably should've had them reconed, but I was away at the time, and my mom pitched them.

The receiver and turntable were lost in a flood in 2004, an aftermath of hurricane Ivan. :(

[zaqwsx]

Ya i have an sx-980 in my shop that we have to fix for the guy even though its been fixed so many times becuase it blows it self up even after everything is replaced and we have a ton more of that stuff. They are heavy as hell though but very good units better then the stuff you see today. I even have a golden tube amp at the shop and all i can say is wow!

[SK-1]

SX1250 for the win... 60+pounds of analog thunder. I'll look for my picts. I had a permanent shift of hearing due to my 1250 and 4 15in liquid cooled speakers in my 10x12 bedroom.

[zaqwsx]

actuly i think the one at the shop is a sx1250 i forgot i have to check lol to busy with other stuff.